Now, the power/reset board on the front of the Xbox is THE MOST DELICATE AND IMPORTANT part of the Xbox.
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Unclip the front bezel. Once this is done, refer to the picture below and unclip the bezel by unclipping the sides of the bezel, and using a bit of force, pull it off.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...tes/step12.jpg
The front should come off nicely. You should be left with this.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...tes/step13.jpg
Back to the Xbox. The final part to take out is the controller ports. These controller ports are nothing but USB ports, as evident by the connection on the motherboard. As with the fan, the controller ports are clipped in place. There are 2 screws that need to be taken out before you start yanking at the ports, however. The picture below shows where they are.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...tes/step10.jpg
(Note, this picture was taken before the front panel was taken off, hence the black thing at the bottom)
Each pair of controller ports have these screws screwed into them. Unscrew then, and you should be left with something like this.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...tes/step15.jpg
Unclipping it is relatively straightforward. Simply move the clips either side of the controller ports, and push the controller ports out. And that’s it! Dismantling an Xbox is that easy!
Hope you find this tutorial useful! I will be writing the second part of it, the actual ‘putting into a PC case’ part on Friday.
~Tetsuo/Raphael
- Please note that the first two images were taken from
http://www.xbox100.com/tutorials/tainted/paintbox.html.
This tutorial is copyrighted! =) That means no stealing! <3