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LED'S ON A 9300? YES INDEED! Plus many more mods I did over the summer <56k beware>
That's right... 11 led's in a i9300.
Just a little "about the author info"
I have been on theese forums since MARCH 02... I origionally started out as a member of the seti team. I was introduced to theese forums through my best freind Jigpu. After lurking the seti team for a month I joined the forums and started posting. It wasn't long before I began to wonder into other parts of the forums and learn about the great joys of overclocking. Now allmost 900 posts later here I am with not just a fun hobby but an all out addiction. driven by a passion to oc everything in sight (including my calculator) I quickly found desktop systems way too easy and no longer a challenge. I found the need to undertake greater challenges. I turned to laptops as an outlet and I started asking the mods for a laptop forum. they quickly turned my request down but eventually other members also requested some sort of mobile computing forum and they where born. I then chose the insprion 9300 as the perfect desktop replacement system after about 3 months of research at www.notebookforums.com I finally snatched one for allmost half price thanks to a spectacular dell cupon. below is a combination of hundreds of hours of work in research and modding to create the final product. I have pretty much made this area of the overclocker forum's my home away from home.
THE LED MOD
This mod was origionally inspired by a modder by the name of Spike on the notebook forums which I give full credit for most the ideas and designs of the led mods. http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=18160
If you look closelly you can see that I have tapped into the usb port up top(circled in PURPLE) and then the main cable which has a 15 ohm resistor (which you can't see cause it's all taped up) goes into a bus line where all the led's plug into. This allowed me to do all the soldering away from the motherboard and make it easy to switch the wires around if the led's where backwards. There are about 15 wires run to several loctions in the laptop which power 11 led's inside the laptop (CIRCLED IN BLUE) all controlled by a on off on switch(far right side of pic circled in YELLOW). The extra on state of the switch is for a mod (circled in WHITE) that I have attempted but ended up in failure... I shall re attempt this mod in the future again when I have time... when I get it working it will allow the led's to pulse to the music.
the area with all the wires and the green tape is where the pcmcia slot used to be until I removed it to make way for all the wiring. The areas Circled in RED are areas which I have added DYNAMAT to reduce sound and vibration of various components within...
here is another pic but closer up of my mods to the subwoofer...
The Origional dell logo was cut out of the back of the LCD with a dremel and the edges sanded into a nice looking circle.
I then took a circular peice of 1/8" acrillic which I frosted with 600 grit sandpaper over the hole to protect the back of the LCD. I then took the dell logo design to a stanless steel workshop and had the logo cut out with a lazer. I then ordered a carbon fiber quicksnap cover and cut the logo out of that and placed it over the acrillic. I then glued the stainless steel logo onto the acrillic and there was just enougf space aound the edge to create a nice blue ring around the logo which really added to the coolness factor. The logo is lit by 3 micro blue led's which tap into the led circuit I created for the 6 led's in the base of the laptop for a grand total of 9 led's. I then placed a peice of reflective tape over the back of the led's to make them appear twice as bright and have more even lighting and also prevent "BLUE LIGHT LEAKAGE INTO THE LCD". Here is a photo with the carbon fiber cover and the logo in normal light (my camera sucks at capturing the led light)
Here are various shots in a dark room so the camera can capute the led light effects better. A special note that I forgot to press the front buttons so they light up too but I haven't figured out a way to force them to stay on yet (yet another mod for the future) but they are also blue led's behind the front buttons... just look at the last pic and tell me it woulden't be cool to have the front buttons on all the time...
I would like to give extera special thanks to Jigpu for helping me out with the soldering and fixing the anmonous short that was causing the usb to shoot sparks all over the place. and again I would like to thank Spike for the guides.
also just in case anybody likes my wallpaper... I am posting it just because I like it and I think other people will like it too. The wallpaper I actually don't know who origionally made it but I have modified it and added stars and made it larger than it was for higher resolution. the image is made for widescreen so I don't know how it would look on fullscreen...
That's right... 11 led's in a i9300.
Just a little "about the author info"
I have been on theese forums since MARCH 02... I origionally started out as a member of the seti team. I was introduced to theese forums through my best freind Jigpu. After lurking the seti team for a month I joined the forums and started posting. It wasn't long before I began to wonder into other parts of the forums and learn about the great joys of overclocking. Now allmost 900 posts later here I am with not just a fun hobby but an all out addiction. driven by a passion to oc everything in sight (including my calculator) I quickly found desktop systems way too easy and no longer a challenge. I found the need to undertake greater challenges. I turned to laptops as an outlet and I started asking the mods for a laptop forum. they quickly turned my request down but eventually other members also requested some sort of mobile computing forum and they where born. I then chose the insprion 9300 as the perfect desktop replacement system after about 3 months of research at www.notebookforums.com I finally snatched one for allmost half price thanks to a spectacular dell cupon. below is a combination of hundreds of hours of work in research and modding to create the final product. I have pretty much made this area of the overclocker forum's my home away from home.
THE LED MOD
This mod was origionally inspired by a modder by the name of Spike on the notebook forums which I give full credit for most the ideas and designs of the led mods. http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=18160
If you look closelly you can see that I have tapped into the usb port up top(circled in PURPLE) and then the main cable which has a 15 ohm resistor (which you can't see cause it's all taped up) goes into a bus line where all the led's plug into. This allowed me to do all the soldering away from the motherboard and make it easy to switch the wires around if the led's where backwards. There are about 15 wires run to several loctions in the laptop which power 11 led's inside the laptop (CIRCLED IN BLUE) all controlled by a on off on switch(far right side of pic circled in YELLOW). The extra on state of the switch is for a mod (circled in WHITE) that I have attempted but ended up in failure... I shall re attempt this mod in the future again when I have time... when I get it working it will allow the led's to pulse to the music.
the area with all the wires and the green tape is where the pcmcia slot used to be until I removed it to make way for all the wiring. The areas Circled in RED are areas which I have added DYNAMAT to reduce sound and vibration of various components within...
here is another pic but closer up of my mods to the subwoofer...
The Origional dell logo was cut out of the back of the LCD with a dremel and the edges sanded into a nice looking circle.
I then took a circular peice of 1/8" acrillic which I frosted with 600 grit sandpaper over the hole to protect the back of the LCD. I then took the dell logo design to a stanless steel workshop and had the logo cut out with a lazer. I then ordered a carbon fiber quicksnap cover and cut the logo out of that and placed it over the acrillic. I then glued the stainless steel logo onto the acrillic and there was just enougf space aound the edge to create a nice blue ring around the logo which really added to the coolness factor. The logo is lit by 3 micro blue led's which tap into the led circuit I created for the 6 led's in the base of the laptop for a grand total of 9 led's. I then placed a peice of reflective tape over the back of the led's to make them appear twice as bright and have more even lighting and also prevent "BLUE LIGHT LEAKAGE INTO THE LCD". Here is a photo with the carbon fiber cover and the logo in normal light (my camera sucks at capturing the led light)
Here are various shots in a dark room so the camera can capute the led light effects better. A special note that I forgot to press the front buttons so they light up too but I haven't figured out a way to force them to stay on yet (yet another mod for the future) but they are also blue led's behind the front buttons... just look at the last pic and tell me it woulden't be cool to have the front buttons on all the time...
I would like to give extera special thanks to Jigpu for helping me out with the soldering and fixing the anmonous short that was causing the usb to shoot sparks all over the place. and again I would like to thank Spike for the guides.
also just in case anybody likes my wallpaper... I am posting it just because I like it and I think other people will like it too. The wallpaper I actually don't know who origionally made it but I have modified it and added stars and made it larger than it was for higher resolution. the image is made for widescreen so I don't know how it would look on fullscreen...
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