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Install a Wireless Card Into Your XBOX

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install a wireless game adapter into your
XBOX internally so that you can have a wireless connection, where available,
without the extra hardware. Please read all the way through this tutorial before
attempting. If you feel at all like you cannot accomplish this modification to
your XBOX, DON'T. I am not responsible for any damage to your XBOX,
expressed or implied, simply because this is a DIY tutorial. USE THIS TUTORIAL
AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Items needed:
XBOX (Modded or unmodded, doesn't matter)
1 - 8" 4-Pin Power Cable Splitter
1 - Netgear WGE-111 Network Adapter
Torx-10 and Torx-20 Driver
Soldering Gun
Solder Braid
Solder Patience

Step 1: Open the XBOX:

See http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/open1.php (Courtesy of www.xbox-scene.com). If you
followed the instructions correctly, you should be looking at the XBOX motherboard with the HDD, DVD-ROM,
and their 'racks' removed.
Step 2: Prepare XBOX
You need to make a little room in order for the adapter to fit without being stressed to a breaking point
a. Trim out all of the metal flashing along the back side with a dremel and cutting wheel, or a pair o
tin snips. You may have to fully remove your motherboard, power supply, and fan; pull out the entire
metal piece, and cut it while it is removed. Replace when finished.
b. With diagonal cutters or Dremel if you have it, trim out the underneath of DVD tray so that your
wireless adapter board will fit in the same area. I had to cut out more than is shown in the picture,
all the way over and into the vertical tube my hand is holding (marked in red).

Step 3: Prepare Netgear WGE-111 Adapter:

You need to strip down the adapter in order for it to fit inside your XBOX.
a. Remove 4 screws on the bottom of the adapter located under the rubber feet.
b. Separate the top and bottom grey pieces of the case. Center clear piece will come free as well.
Discard the case as it will not be used.
c. Remove antennae from back plate by pinching together tines and pushing through. Carefully
de-solder coaxial wire from board making sure to not smear solder between two side solder pads
and the single center solder pads. It is paramount that these not be shorted out because you will
neither receive nor transmit any signal.

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Note: Back plate does not need to be removed.

d. Remove the power adapter jack plug using de-soldering braid. Cut the metal tabs off of the plug
and solder them back in place. This is where we are going to provide power to the board via the
modified power cable in step 4b. Note the polarity of the two tabs on the second pic below.

e. Cover the side of the board that has the plugs installed with electrical tape to prevent it from
shorting out on the Audio/Video Input/Output plug shielding.
STEP 4: Prepare Power supply & 8" 4-Pin Power Cable Splitter
This modified power splitter will be the lifeline from the power supply.

note: The wires to supply power to out Wireless adapter are the RED +5v and Black Ground.

a. Using a pair of diagonal cutters, cut the power plug cable going to the HDD so that it is
approximately 2" long from power supply board to end of wire. Noting the order the wires, remove
plug from cut piece and place on short wires coming from the PS board.

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b. Looking at the 8" 4-Pin Power Cable Splitter, you need to understand that we need one part of
the split to be a full plug and the other part to be just a red and black wire with no harness. Cut on
of the splits' plug off. Then at the common plug, remove the pins for the red and closest black to
the red wire. Trim the 'plugless' wires off of those pins and reinsert into plastic plug. You should an
up with one fully wired 'common plug', one fully wired plug for the HDD; and two wires, one red and
one black, for the wireless adapter.

STEP 5: Install WGE-111 Wireless Adapter

Now on to the good part...
a. With both drives out of the XBOX, place the wireless circuit board in the back of the case upside dow
until you find a good fit. The wireless adapter RJ-45 port will be approximately 7/8" from the XBOX
LAN adapter. Mark off where you are going to cut out the holes for the plug, ADHOC/Internet switch

and RESET switch. Using a dremel tool and drill, remove the plastic where you need to access the
two switches and plug.

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Pre-finished back plate. I know it's ugly!

b. With a fine piece of sand paper, dress up your workmanship so that there are no burs.
c. Halfway in between the 'Audio/Video Input/Output' port and the side of the fan opening, drill a
3/8" hole for the antennae. Insert antennae, coax first, and snap it into place.
d. With the board upside down, re-solder the antennae coax to the board. Again, be careful not to
bridge the center and outer solder pads or the antennae will neither transmit or receive any signal.
From this point forward, please handle board with care. One hard tug and it may come loose inside
the antennae, making it inop.
e. Flip the board over and put it in place. Using 2 small screws, secure it through the back plate of
the adapter to the back side of the XBOX. Alternatively, you may also use double-stick cellophane
tape without covering the switches and secure it that way. You want to make sure to keep it as clos
to the back plastic as possible.
f. Solder the red and black wires left over from STEP 4 to the wireless adapter board. Red is POS
(+) and black is NEG (-). Make sure you have a good clean solder or you will short out your power
supply and blow a fuse. Plug the other end into the short plug off of the power supply we made in
step 4a.

STEP 6: Put XBOX back together.

Temp install all parts, start her up, test for serviceability, and finish her off.
a. Temporarily install the hard drive and DVD drive. Plug the XBOX in and turn it on.
b. If the LEDs on the underside of the board light up, you have successfully installed you wireless
card into your XBOX. If not, review all your previous steps and make sure you did a good job of
soldering the coaxial antenna cable and the power supply connections to the board.
c. If all has checked correctly, install your DVD drive TRAY (with DVD drive uninstalled), making
sure not to dislodge the board. Check for clearance of the rear left leg of the DVD rack (previously
removed plastic in step 2a.). If there is not enough clearance, dremel out more of the leg so that it
is not pushing down on the card.
d. Remove the Hard drive from its tray by removing the four machine screws from the sides. Place
the remaining power cable through the underneath of the tray though the opening. Plug in the
power cable to the hard drive and place the hard drive back into the tray. Making sure the 4 power

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wires are lying flat, screw the 4 screws removed back into their holes.

This is the opening in the HDD tray to pass the power cable through. This pic is with the card not
installed.
e. Finally, finish the install by plugging in the DVD power cable, placing the DVD back into its tray
that was installed in Step 6c. Make sure you hear it snap into place, or your case will not close.
Install screws removed in Step 1 to secure the drive trays into place.
f. PLACE THE COVER ON THE XBOX AND INSTALL ALL SCREWS TO THE BOTTOM EXCEPT THE
MIDDLE BACK SCREW. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! INSTALLING THIS SCREW MAY RUIN YOUR
WIRELESS ADAPTER!e. Make a jumper to go in between your WGE-111 Wireless Adapter card and the
onboard NIC by creating a small CAT5 jumper like the one below. It is a simple T568A jumper. Plu
this into both the wireless adapter port and the onboard NIC port.

VIOLA!

You now have a working, internal wireless adapter that will travel with you everywhere you go.
Configure the adapter the same way you did before and you are good to go!

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How do you like the label...Yeah, yeah, I know I need to clean it...

Note: If you install the latest firmware to the WGE-111, you will be able to connect to you network via
a WEP-PSK secure connection!This tutorial brought to you by BrutalByte...The One and Only.
Contact me @ brutalbyte@digital-drama.com if you have any questions/comments/complaints.Quick
Bio: I am a product of a Texas family of engineers (all types) and chemical plant workers. For as long
as I can remember I have been tinkering; tearing apart all things mechanical and electrical, trying to
figure out how they work and how I might improve on them. The XBOX is my latest item to 'seriously'
mod. I am now in the AF as a Aerospace Propulsion Craftsman (Jet Surgeon as my wife calls it). I hav
the honor of tearing apart Dual Spool, Axial Flow, Secondary Bypass Turbofan Engines of the GE and
Pratt & Whitney make. What a life!

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