Creative X-Fi "Music Creation" Mod

Power Surge Continued

The two main power-carrying cables to the computers mainboard were to have the surging effect. I thought about “surging” all the cables but decided against it since the effect I was after was of the power flowing into the X-Fi card. Each cable would have ten blue LEDs running along its length. These LEDs would be wired back to a control circuit.



The anode of each LED was shortened and a wire soldered to it.



The cathode of each LED was soldered to each other to form a ladder arrangement.



The last LED had a black wire soldered to its cathode. All the wired connections were then insulated with heat shrink sleeving.



The string of LEDs was then laid into the wire harness and retained using a few cable ties. The same exercise was repeated for the “P4” power harness. The only difference being that each LED had wires on both its anode and cathode instead of stringing all the cathodes together. The reason is that the two sets of LED strings would be wired in series back at the control board.

The wiring harnesses were then sheathed with blue braiding. When lit, the blue LEDs cause the braiding to glow producing a cool effect.


All cable harnesses were braided, including the extra power connector to the X-Fi card. Yes, you read that right, the X-Fi needs the extra power connector to feed the I/O module.


Put it in the box…