Tutorial written by : Burchman82
Last edited: September 20, 2003

This tutorial is pretty basic, but is damn useful when you think that if your Xbox fan blows up, you will not know until your game freezes up while you’re playing!

HOW IT WORKS

I discovered in my local JAYCAR (http://www.jaycar.com.au) store (Australian electronics store) a simple device that will sound a 90db tone whenever there is no power being supplied to a small fan. It is about the size of a 10c coin and includes the 2 connectors needed and a little bit of double sided tape if you wanna use it. (I didn’t bother).

CLICK HERE TO GO DIRECTLY TO JAYCARS PRODUCT

INSTALLATION

Installation is a pretty simple idea.
1. Take apart your Xbox right down to the motherboard (look elsewhere in the tutorials)
2. Unplug your existing fan from your motherboard (you can either choose to alarm your cpu fan if you have an old xbox, or your case fan)
3. connect the alarm device into the motherboard socket
4. connect the other end to the fan.
5. DONE

You will notice when you turn on your xbox, there will be a small tone for a second or 2, this is normal, and just lets you know if the buzzer is working.

INSTALLATION PICS

FAN UNPLUGGED

ALARM DEVICE INSTALLED

ALARM DEVICE INSTALLED WITH DVDROM INSTALLED