That’s great… a even BIGGER xbox power supply!
all in all, that’s a great hack

What about the blue wire? Did you leave it disconnected?

Thanks for the tip duffman3030.

tnkgrl – Yes, I left the blue wire disconnected. I suspect (but can’t prove) that it is used to wake up the original xbox psu in some way.

maybe pin 14 should be hooked to the blue cable. If the blue cable goes to ground maybe it “wakes up” the power supply.

A Japanese Xbox 360? Crazy!

Ever hear of heatshrink tubing? Wicked dirty job on that cable. It’s beautiful!

I looked at a US powersupply i believe it showed 5 amps at 120 volts so fallowing watts law volts times amps
120*5 should be around 500 watts or so you might want to get a bigger psu also you might be able to wake up the psu by connecting green psu to blue xbox hopefully that will work.

LoL Japanese Sexbox,
They hate the original,
+10 points for Ghettoness
+10 Points for drunk luck
+10 points for Dirty cabling
-10 points for faulty sexbox
-10 points for getting a sexbox free-sex-ty
-10 points for not using different rails.
+1,000,000 points for buying imports (w00t)

Nice hack, Keep it up, now i wanna see an original sexbox with water or phase change cooling, and i wanna see UNIX or Linux botting on its fast(ish) hardware (3 IBM power PC cores, low latency speedy ram, Sata DVD drive)

mrgreen – Someone is already selling a 360 watercooling kit.

Congrats on getting it to work, ran, it takes balls to just hope that the red and yellow wires are 5v and 12v respectively. Glad it worked out.

below are some good resources for atx power supply modification, with varying sophistication and technical depth:

http://web2.murraystate.edu/andy.batts/ps/powersupply.htm
http://wiki.ehow.com/Convert-a-Computer-ATX-Power-Supply-to-a-Lab-Power-Supply
http://www.instructables.com/ex/i/D5FC00DAB9B110289B50001143E7E506/?ALLSTEPS

naturally, i checked past hacks only <caps>AFTER</caps> submitting the above to the hackaday tipline (thinking i had something that had not been featured). sorry eliot

To fix the PSU you would’ve needed to know something about the PSU – this way you only need to know anything except the voltage and the fact that it’s a DC current.

tnx diraddo for your post. When my old dell’s power supply broke I could not find a replacement. Good thing, my friend knows someone who could. Now, I just need a generic atx, wire cutting and stripping tool, and heatshrink tubing.

The AC power in Japan is actually 100V. Maybe supplying 110V to the power supply led to it’s failure? Although many switching power supplies I’ve come across have a wide input voltage range like 100-240V 50/60Hz. Helps the manufacturers keep costs down by only needing one model.

nice mod, looks like somthing i would try :) someone mentioned the need of a resistor, i highly doubt it, i ran a machine with 2 psu’s for over 3 months in a simialr config. while i was getting a cpu replaced i had to run my 6800 gt in a box that had a 250watt psu, (it was a gutted dell board and propritary psu and i couldnt easily upgrade it) so i wired a PSU to always on and hooked it up to my vid card and the other psu up to the mainboard, worked with out a hitch for atleast a month with no issues. id say your all set.
-Wobble

ps. electrial tape is great screw heat shrink :)

the post about the dell power supply is wrong, at least for all new dells. they comply with the atx standard now. and all the taps come off the same spot in a psu if you have ever opened one up, the limitations would be the current capacity of the wire as long as it is at least 18 gauge he should be fine. I would just hold the “new” wire in your hand and make sure it isnt getting too warm, if not you will be fine

hey, whoever posted that second post justin wang, wennier, whatever the hell your name is, shut the hell up. he didnt do it to be cool, he did it because he had no other power supply to work with. dumbass

Nice hack; at least someone had the balls to try it :)

As for not being able to buy a replacment psu anywhere.. I wouldn’t say that either… Ebay is a good place.. I’m currently selling one there ;)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8248866566

i seem to remember that the 360 psu brick had a fan/fans, maybe the blue wire is some kind of control for that…

“i seem to remember that the 360 psu brick had a fan/fans” there is no fans in the power supply i did open my own

OmG I HaD A pOwEr SuPpLy OnCe!!
NoT On A xBoX ThO

ok so on the blue wire check for dc voltage output while powered off then try it powered on…that will tell you if it is power for psu’s fans if there are or supposed to be there….and to check if it powers on the psu then run a continuity test…put one bar to the cables ground and one to the blue wire and with the psu turned off press the power button…if you get a quick connection then this means you need to connect the blue wire to pin number 14

I’m sorry pimpmail, but you’re wrong.
Shorting the green pin (14) to any ground (13 is closest) will NOT fry the PSU. The ATX specification calls for this pin to be shorted constantly anyways, it’s how the computer you type on stays on. The blue wire is usually for negative 12 volts (-12), it should be connected but I’d check an actual power supply from a 360 first. This wire could also be a vsense wire to check the status of the voltages coming from the supply itself, but I’m willing to be on -12 volts.

did this hack all worked and powered up but the main system lights all flashed red ???? so still i cant play my xbox360 i used a atx psu 230 volts was this correct??? also my dvd tray wouldnt open is this a power issue ???pls reply to my e mail thxs stacehughes16@hotmail.com

hi there so i did the atx power pack thing great stuff but my xbox360 all the lights when i power it up flash red around the on button??? and it wont open my dvd tray?? is there not enough power going ttrough it ??? im using a 230 volt atx psu ??? pls help i follewed the wireing in the diagram so its all good apart from that ?

stace – I had the red light thing initially when I didn’t have all the wires connected or when I wasn’t providing enough juice – I tried this on my lab PSU first which didn’t have enough power to run the box and gave the red light thing. Make sure it’s all connected. Also I’m using a 250W PSU – 230 sounds marginal as as far as I know the number quoted is always peak.

so do i need a 250v atx psu for it to power fully ??? pls help

Does anyone have the Pin-out for the power connector on the back of the Xbox 360 itself? I don’t have the original psu to splice the cable with.

did anyone get this atx psu to work there xbox360 cos i follewed all the wireing and mine just lights up all red around teh ring so it doesnt even work can anyone verfiy apart from the poster that it works cos mine dont wont even open the dvd try….

I did exactly what you did and follow your instructions, and my XBOX 360 is now working perfectly. I got a reasonable price ATX power supply with a 14mm fan and on/off switch at the box, some shrink tube and spent 35 minutes desoldering and solder the new thing on. It is so much better than the old PSU. I put some silicon adhesive stopper at the bottom of the PSU and wa la! Thanks heaps.

To the guy who done this power supply hack…Could you please give me the pin layout of the xbox360 power connections as I need to make my own power supply and need to change the connector too….

I’ve water cooled an xbox 360 and it’s lovely and silent. I can post pics if you like

I have found out the pinouts myself so if anyone else wants to know have a look here….

http://krisbox.free.fr/atxto360.GIF

ok thxs prolly what ive done is used the wrong connection point like ive prolly used a 8amp instead of a 17 amp power connection point so ill wire my 300 watt atx power unit again tonight and just try all the connections on it ….is that agood idea cos i know i have done all the wires correct it just wont do anything i get power and dvd try opens but wont close and the rings of light all flash red i had my av cable in and still flashes all red ????? its a brand new xbox from canada and im in the uk i only played on it 2 times how bad is that haha anyone offer any help ???

WELL I FINALLY GAVE IN AND BOUGHT A NEW XBOX360 CORE SYSTEM FROM EBAY SO IM GONNA TAKE OUT THE POWER PACK AND KEEP FOR MYSELF AND JUST STORE OR SELL THE CONSOLE AND OTHER ITEMS WITH IT ANYONE INTRESTED IN THE CONSOLE DROP ME A LINE ITS BRAND NEW REGION 1 USA/CANADA WITH RECIPT FROM BESTBUY STACEHUGHES16@HOTMAIL.COM ILL BE SELLING IT FOR 150 DOLLERS OR 150 POUND UK

i know how to copy xbox360 games wahoooo totally by eroor…take the dvd drive and plugs from the main board in the xbox360 and insert the xbox360 dvd tray into a pc with the microsoft leads patch them up and volia it will read the xbox games to you hard drive using a well known program then burn onto dvd-9 dual layer disks complete cloned copy i cant tell program here but pls e mail me ill will tell u

So anyone have a detailed diagram on how to do this yet because it seems there was some discretion over the first. Thanks.

Ran, if you’re from Israel please contact me: nissanp@zahav.net.il
Thanx in advance, Nissan

I have done this twice now. Once for mine and once for a friend. Both were Japanese models. This Rocks. You should really be using 250w as minimum.
As for the blue cable. It is not for sleep mode. As mine goes into sleep mode and I can turn it back on with the remote control. Who knows what the blue wire is for send an email to Billy G :).

ok as my post # 75.. too early to say… my powersupply of 350watt atx just died on me…

i recently purchased a xbox 360 from US and went back to India to use it, I screwed up by using a cheap 230 to 110 v converter, it burnt up, Lucky for me – I had not connected the xbox while attempting this,

I decided to open this unit and found a come some components burnt within.- may be capicitors-

Here I am stuck, and checked with this blog, I am going to try this out.. atleast there is an alternative-

Thx

My PSU is fails because something mistake from 220V convert to 110V. Now i use this solution ATX PSU but the xbox show three flashlight.
I not sure about the problem.

Pls tell me for it. (I use ATX2 PSU)

Hi Everyone.
I bought a Jap XBOX 360 and i think i blew the psu. I live in India and had to use a voltage converter, which i think blew my psu.
Has anyone tried opening the psu and tried to fix it? If so can you please let me know.
Would really appreciate any reply.

Hi Everyone.
I bought a Jap XBOX 360 and i think i blew the psu. I live in India and had to use a voltage converter, which i think blew my psu.
Has anyone tried opening the psu and tried to fix it? If so can you please let me know.
Would really appreciate any reply.

Unfortunatly my bro connected the 110v psu directly without convertor to our commecial 220v power, and since then the xbox never powered on of course.

What to do now? there are no psu avilable here?

Stationed in Europe but I have a 110 Xbox. A friend plugged it in to 220 and fried it. Would it be safe to say all I need is a new power supply in the Xbox and all should be fine? The power surge wouldn’t have touched the board and the mod chip, would it? Just checking before I buy a new power supply. If I need more, I want to buy all at one time. Thanks… Patrick.Quenga@us.army.mil please send comments there…easier to get them…cya!

i used a power converter for my 360 that went from 110 to 220 . the converter blew up after 1/2 hour but nothing happened to my brick . are ther any good converters that i can use so it feels like im playing on a 110 outlet so it dosnt switch off? swantonbomber@gmail.com

i did all this staff, but i have my xbox360 flashing red light.
i don’t know what’s wrong on it. Although all the connection is right.
notice that i used 400w

Ok, my power supply went out YESTERDAY, so I rolled the dice and tried to do this and, IT WORKS!!! I mean I have the thing up and running and looks pretty much exactly like how you have it in the picture there. Here’s my question though:

Is this safe? I mean do I really not have anything to worry about in terms of the power supply overheating, 360 being ruined in some way, or of course the worst case scenario, starting an electrical fire because of the psu being modified?

I tend to think that since it’s done, and it works, it should be ok. I’m really not worried about it, one reason why I’m really not worried is because I’m not a hardcore 5 hour straight type player. I play for an hour or 2 at most consecutively so I really don’t think overheating should be an issue.

I just wanted to write though and see what everyone thinks about the “safety” factor in doing this. I feel really good about the fact that it’s actually up and running, I guess I just need a little reassurance in the safety part of it. Thanks for any input!

I tried the hack but i cant seem to get it to work…

now the xbox is lighting up but im gettin 3 red lights all the time i have tried all the various things mentioned in the posts

any help ?

great mod, risky,but if it works i dont question it. anyone know how to take the psu apart for the 360 cause then you could try to replace the psu with the atx inside the 360 psu case