fan

[john1509]

hi guys anyone know were i can find info on installing a fan in my dm800.and what size i would need as my dm seems to be gettting quite hot tx

[opsmonkey]

you can always just put it on top of a laptop cooler, which is an easier option.. or follow the instructions below..

Thanks to JaMeVu from Dreambox Turkie for the following


Firstly you need to take the USB cable and use wire strippers to get to the center wiring, you will get through a
layer of silver wiring and then you'll see 4
different coloured wires: White, Green, Red,
and Black.

You can hack the green and white one's off if theyre in your way.

You only need the red and black ones for power
(the others are for data).

Now you atach the black wire which is comming from the USB cable with the black wire from the fan cable,
and also do the same for the red with the red by snipping abit of the rubber off the ends and then twisting the wires together.

Then you will need to put some tape round them so they dont touch each other and so they stay seperate.

When all done, you can put some tape round over them all to make it look a single tidy cable as shown in the pic.

Normaly on a pc fan you would get a black and red wire to make it easy for you to know which is which, but in my case i had to find out which is which as i had three silver wires lol.

The usb connection is located under the hard drive bay.

My fan lights up in a nice blue colour now, when switched on.


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