Another cool LED trick, NOT written by me again
i just post these hardware tutorials as i do them myself, so
anyway, original can be found here
http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/amberled.phpThis simple mod makes the eject button LEDs blink amber for hard drive activity. It requires a 10k resistor and a single length of wire.
In the first picture you can see an 0805 10k surface mount resistor soldered to pin 39 on the IDE connector.
In the second picture you can see the other ond of the wire tied to the side of R3V2 connected to the base of Q2V2 which happens to be the driver for the RED side of both dual color LEDs.
A simple mod that isn't as old school as drilling a hole in your housing for some bright as hell LED that looks like ass.
enjoy,
i dont have any pics of how it works, but its not that hard to immagine though