Accelerometer arduino pro mini

right, yeah, so i took out the resistor and no change.

i tried running everything with no ground going to the accelerometer and there was no change, the data reads 1003 across the board.

im wondering if i've fried my accelerometer. I've fried other sensors before (force sensor) but i got zeros across the board. it seems strange that its sitting at 1003 and not 1023 . any thoughts?