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post #21 of 87
2/27/06 at 4:15pm
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Originally Posted by VENOM3045
what is the fan? i thought other then the lights a 9300 with the GTX is the exact same as the m170.no?
The 9300 also has a 10/100 internal NIC card where the XPS Gen2/M170 have a 10/100/1000 NIC.

So, lights, and NIC, and the Lid are the only differences.
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post #22 of 87
2/28/06 at 12:04am
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Well.. I got the rest of my parts today. Motherboard install went well, I had a little problem with the cable that runs to my modem but I can get a replacement for that easy enough.

The lights look fantastic. My pin mod is still working. Dell shiped me a Motherboard with A01 BIOS on it, still no big deal. The Fan control program i9KGui disabled the temps for Video card, Memory, and Northbridge due to the old BIOS version. Not a big deal, I flashed it to A05 and re-enabled them.

The only thing that windows asked for was the drive for the Gig-E Network card. I had already downloaded them so, I just updated the drive.

My camera is packed up already for my trip to flordia so the pictures will have to wait. I will post them when I return. The Quickset program is nice for adjusting the colors and intensitys.

I am happy..
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post #23 of 87
2/28/06 at 3:38am
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Originally Posted by Kissarmy
While upgrading the graphics card in my XPS I took the fans out to clean them. The fan connector is a 3 pin. The LEDs are on a small board screwed on top of the fan and have a seperate cable going to the 6pin connector.
Does anyone know if the traces for the 6-pin connector are on the 9300 mainboard at all? IE.. is the board simply missing the 6-pin plug?

Pugsly0014 is there any chance you can compare the 2 boards and see? Thanks.
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post #24 of 87
2/28/06 at 10:30am
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Inspecting both boards here are the differences I saw.

There are traces on the board for where the connector should be, but there is not one there. There are 4 LED connector areas. 1 for the top lid, one for the left fan, one for the right fan, and one for the speakers.

There are also some missing resistors, or something resembleing a resistor. I wish I had my camera out to take some pictures, but I am leaving soon for a trip.
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post #25 of 87
2/28/06 at 12:47pm
since that mobo is broken anyway, you ought to send it to one of those fancy electircal engineers on the board with fancy soldering techniques... see if they can actually "install" the conectors and whatnot.. wouuld never try it with a good board, as it will probably not end up working out, but since it's dead, it might lead to an interesting thread
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post #26 of 87
2/28/06 at 1:02pm
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Originally Posted by Pugsly0014
Inspecting both boards here are the differences I saw.

There are traces on the board for where the connector should be, but there is not one there. There are 4 LED connector areas. 1 for the top lid, one for the left fan, one for the right fan, and one for the speakers.

There are also some missing resistors, or something resembleing a resistor. I wish I had my camera out to take some pictures, but I am leaving soon for a trip.
This sounds good actually. When you return from your trip and could you take a few pics and possibly edit comments to were you see differences? If its simply a matter of a few missing connectors then it may be fairly simple to soldier to those traces. I'm not the best but can soldier ok and it would be cool if I could get the replacement fans, and see if it'll powerup the LEDs.

Anyways.. Dont bother with any of this right now. Go have fun on your trip!!
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post #27 of 87
2/28/06 at 10:24pm
Adrenolin, a long time ago I mentioned that the 9300S mobo has the LED "areas" printed on the board, and even labelled. And the solder points for all missing items are there. So you can attach the missing pieces from RadioShack and it should work. The BIOS chipset used in the 9300 is the same as the XPS - hence why we can flash it with the XPS version and tell it that it is an XPS. The printed circuits that control the LED's should lead to the BIOS pins. Which means the option in the hacked XPS BIOS on the 9300's can control them.

Just add the missing parts by way of someone with a good steady soldering hand and you're good to go. I can't expect the pieces costing more than 20$.
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post #28 of 87
3/1/06 at 12:01am
No pictures = lie.
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post #29 of 87
3/1/06 at 12:40am
Pics!
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post #30 of 87
3/1/06 at 12:50am
That's sweet! post pics when its done
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post #31 of 87
3/1/06 at 2:44am
Post pics when I'm done? LOL... I only looked because I just got the laptop and it was a hot topic back then. I've said it before and I'll say it again... LED's are useless bling bling. Next people are going to be trying to hang clocks around their laptops necks. =(
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post #32 of 87
3/1/06 at 4:44am
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Originally Posted by Xattica
No pictures = lie.
Did you read the guys posts??? He's leaving for a trip and stuff was packed away.
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post #33 of 87
3/1/06 at 4:47am
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Originally Posted by JaxChris
Adrenolin, a long time ago I mentioned that the 9300S mobo has the LED "areas" printed on the board, and even labelled. And the solder points for all missing items are there. So you can attach the missing pieces from RadioShack and it should work. The BIOS chipset used in the 9300 is the same as the XPS - hence why we can flash it with the XPS version and tell it that it is an XPS. The printed circuits that control the LED's should lead to the BIOS pins. Which means the option in the hacked XPS BIOS on the 9300's can control them.

Just add the missing parts by way of someone with a good steady soldering hand and you're good to go. I can't expect the pieces costing more than 20$.

Yes I know all that. However the OP here also states that there are some missing resistors. I'd like to see these before I go adding parts.
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post #34 of 87
3/1/06 at 4:49am
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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
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EDIT: Been fixed already....
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post #35 of 87
3/1/06 at 5:40am
Adrenolin... might want to direct that last post at someone... since your post is on a different page than the persons post/sig you're commenting about. =)
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post #36 of 87
3/5/06 at 12:48am
bump because this was just a sweet idea hope your trip is/was fun
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post #37 of 87
3/5/06 at 1:58am
well.. im interested in the LED mod too. the differance is i have the tools to find out what parts are needed and i can source them.

if someone can send me a dead XPS mobo, i can figure out what parts are needed, buy enough parts for it and try it on my 9300. if it works i can then put together little mod kits to sell for the cost of parts + shipping. i imagine it would be in the range of $10 per kit.

so i repeat.. if someone has a dead XPS mobo, i can and will find out what parts are needed to add LEDs to the 9300 and ill share the knowlage and possibly sell a small mod kit with what youll need to do the mod.

i have the tools and knowlage, i just lack an xps of my own. if i had an xps instead of a 9300 i would just use my own computer.
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post #38 of 87
3/5/06 at 3:05am
Evil, keep an eye on eBay AND BUY YOUR OWN!!! We've all got our own broken XPS mobo's to play with.
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post #39 of 87
3/5/06 at 3:51am
Send in your dead xps mobo!!! I want to leds on my 9300 too.
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post #40 of 87
3/5/06 at 4:08am
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Originally Posted by JaxChris
Adrenolin... might want to direct that last post at someone... since your post is on a different page than the persons post/sig you're commenting about. =)
Actually this entire thread is only 1 page. I and many others change the default to display 40 posts per page. Makes reading threads very fast and simple. But yes.. Your right and I did.. Its also been looked after already.
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