He ended up replacing it with a standard ATX power supply. Follow along for all of the details. For anyone who is having problems with their Xbox 360 power supply, or who (like me) have managed to ...

Reader Ran Mokady at Hack-a-Day submitted his How-To for a DIY Xbox ... power supply cable; splicing the two cables together; rigging the ATX PSU to start up; and lastly, plugging it into the 360.

Yes, the 360 is marginally smaller than the original Xbox. But this was only accomplished by using an external power supply. And damn if the thing's not gigantic and hot. The crazy kids over at ...

So Kinect still works with all versions of the consoles, we just eliminated the need for a power supply with the ... GO: The fans on the original Xbox 360 never bothered me as much as the drive ...