Power button connection

Since the original Xbox power connectors are on their own little PCB with two switches, two LED's, a board had to be made to make it fit with the PC case. Sticking with the Keep It Simple, Stupid thinking, I opted have the board be able to connect to standard PC case connectors via header pins. These pins are the exact same size as you'd find on the back of an IDE Hard drive, as well as the LPC header pins used for most mods. I had a few sets of these laying around, so that was a perfect fit.

I used the original yellow cable that connects to the front buttons (2x5 pins). I traced out which pin is what, and then detached each yellow wire from the front panel PCB and soldered them onto the board above.

Power/Eject PCB Pinout:

• 1 - Ground
• 2 - Power Switch
• 3 - Ground
• 4 - Eject Switch
• 5 - LED2
• 6 - LED2
• 7 - LED1
• 8 - LED1
• 9 - Nothing

This view is from the BACK of the 2x5 connector (the side with the wires coming out/the holes facing AWAY from you):

Here's possibly an easier way to read this:

The ground is shared by both Eject and Power switch, as well as the middle prong of each LED. X is the hole w/ no wire. These numbers jive with the numbers on the PCB, labeled 1 and 9.

I don't know a ton about electronics, so I decided to guess that I can power the case's built in LED's by using any of the four possible LED power sources. So I did this, and it works fine (so far!) The ground of course shares the same ground as the others.