i put longer cables on my x3 so that i can put the modchip ontop of my hardrive/cdrom drive in the middle below the jewel...

since the x3 has 2 blue led's on it it lights up the jewel and ur good to go, also a good way to show off that u have a legit x3 (for future issues)
*shakes fist at clones*
my jewel isnt cleared... i have the crystal xbox.. but it does leave a shinny blue ring around my jewel


1 problem i ran into is the wire hardness for the x3 is too deep...
so i had to just run wires into the sockets instead (tried soldering from below but it got messy)

been meaning to do this very mod myself, not a bad idea if i do say so myself. try cutting out some peices of the hdd/dvd tray

hmm, good idea.... might have to do it

how bright are the leds on the chip? Is there still room for an led ring with the chip under the jewel? sounds pretty cool anyway....I wanna see some pics!!!

Very Orginal I Also Wanna See Pics

-|Neo|

give it a day for the pics, cams acting up.... sorry for the wait.. led's arnt impressive compaired to an led ring.. but it still has that blue glow that you kinda look for
as for clones.. i thought they couldnt make them look EXACTLY the same without infringing copyrights or somthing.. no?

bad news everyone...
i noticed that the job i did was a lil shaky (feeding wires thought the sockets rather then a harness

so i started modifying the harness (trimming it down)
so that it wouldnt be a 50/50 shot of my xbox turning on correctly
(wires in sockets shook around a bit and had to keep being re-fed)

first i tried soldaring to the bottom of the x3... but that didnt seem to work at all...

then i tried again... re-doing all wires...
didnt work again... thought maybe i fried my xbox...
so i hooked them up through the harness again.. worked fine...

but for some reason no matter what i do i get to the same conclusion...
this wireing harness has magical powers... and if tampered with will not grant your wishes of ultimate xbox power

anyone else accually do this mod yet that could sujest reasons why my soldaring to the bottom of the x3 would not have worked (it worked but only if i held the power button until the x3 logo came up otherwize it would do the usual boot up 3 times thing and display nothing)

well, technically you're not leding your jewel though...
you may be adding led's but not directly
you're modchipping your jewel
its much more awquard to do...
and thank you for your waste of a post

CC's are better, they give you a nice clean glow...

where in the post did i say it wasnt lit up using some led's

to led your jewel is to accually wire in some led's and resistors and do the whole job...
i am not adding a single led when moving the modchips location....

but keep arguing all u want... its irrelevent to the post...

as for your wastes of posts.. thoes are facts....
so before you tell me to grow up.. could you please stop attacking posts for no reason
thank you

cc's give off too much heat in my xbox..i would choose leds

The fact is still that the jewel is being lit by LEDs. To LED a jewel simple means that the jewel is being lit by LEDs. It does not matter how you do it it, it is still being lit by LEDs.

they are nice, but i like leds better

i don't know its jsut me, it doesn't take any skill to put a cc in, i think it is cooler if you do it by yourself casue you have that self satisfaction that you did it, and if it comes out good that you did that. anyone can put a cathode in even my 12yr old bro. i don't know it is just me

my new LEDs for my jewel are waiting at the post office, 8 blue ones, gonna put em in tomorrow.

i'd like to see this modchip jewel though. it'd look good with a cleared jewel, especially if the X3 lights light up up the whole chip so it gives it a cool look

long wires are bad for the mods.. the longer they get, the more sensitive they get to interference, so even just moving them could cause the mod to malfunction.

uhm.. ever heard of line resistance? the longer a wire is, the higher its resistance.
higher resistance = weaker signal. weaker signal = malfunctions.

the plastic coating has NOTHING at all to do with it, wether you strip 1 mm or 30 cm makes no difference (unless you short them against each other, obviously).