Xbox Laptop - The Case (Pt.3)

The motherboard stand-off's. This is going to be pretty simple and extremely basic... -I used 1 clear Bic pen, cut it into 4, 5/8" pieces. -Then I took 4 of the best stand-off's that I removed previously and sanded them to where they'd fit into one end. -I super-glued the black piece into one end, then filled the rest with hot glue. -I screwed all 4 NEW stand-off's into all 4 corners of the motherboard. -While up-side-down (right-side-up) I quickly...

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Xbox Laptop - The Case (Pt.2)

Next up was to cut the vent hole. My first idea was to make it oval shaped. I used the original case jewel as a guide, connected the lines on the top and bottom. I used a dremel to make a series of small holes around the perimeter and then drug the bit from hole to hole to make the final cut. The hole didn't look right when the motherboard was in place so I decided on a squared hole. It looked better and fit like a glove. Next was the mesh....

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Xbox Laptop - The Case (Pt.1)

First I started with a naked lower case. I used a hacksaw blade, wrapped at one end with electrical tape, to saw off the stand-off's at their base. I saved the stand-off's and set them aside. I'll be using them later to re-build stand off's for the motherboard. Next I used the hack saw blade and I started to cut the back plate of the case off flush with the bottom of the case. The trick here was to go SLOW and deliberate. I started at the fan...

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Xbox Laptop - The Motherboard... DONE!

Ta Daaaa! Here she is, as slim as I can get her. Less than 1 inch tall... Man-oh-man.. Now that this BS is done, I can get on with what I love the most... Case Modding. The next few post's will be ALL about building the case, fabricating pieces, the keyboard, the power button, the LCD etc... Please, stay tuned! Thanks for reading, J...

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Xbox Laptop - The Motherboard (Pt. 4)

The 5 silver caps. I'm not going to get into cap for cap detail on how I did these things. I used a combination of methods. In a nut shell.. I removed them all. Laid one where it stood, wrapped and soldered leads to the rest and relocated them in the general vicinity. See the images below: Finished in Part 5...

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Xbox Laptop - The Motherboard (Pt. 3)

Fan Headers!!!! Once upon a time, I read that the second, GPU, fan header was live... there was just nothing there. I was right. I de-soldered a fan header from my handy dandy donor / dead PC motherboard. I soldered in pins, top and bottom to get a better connection. I used an old IDE cable to make a "pigtail" with the fan header at one end. I soldered the other end to the very bottom of the corresponding pins.. as close as I could get...

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