Topic: FrostyTheSnowman and Xman954's X2 5035 VGA BIOS v1.0 (fixed) (Read 183 times)

FrostyTheSnowman · « **Reply #15 on:** September 22, 2007, 03:27:00 PM »

Have you tried another monitor?

Compatiblity between the XBOX and most VGA monitors is usually good, but there is a large amount of monitors that won't work with the XBOX's non-standard VGA signals...

Is your monitor an LCD? CRT's usually work best, but my Acer 19" AL1916 LCD is the best i've run across so far for this mod.

Viewsonic monitors are known to work well too.

TheSpecialist · « **Reply #16 on:** September 28, 2007, 07:59:00 PM »

I'd love to try this mod, anybody has the diagram for the vga to component cable to make ?

FrostyTheSnowman · « **Reply #17 on:** September 28, 2007, 10:19:00 PM »

Follow the tutorial below for the best way of building these cables:

http://www.360mods.n...cle/sid=32.html

Bebel · « **Reply #18 on:** September 28, 2007, 11:17:00 PM »

This is a great BIOS

. I have it working on my X3 with a HD pack and a component-to-VGA cable.

However, there seems to be a problem with the monitor I'm using, which is a NEC 1760V. Basically, I'm getting horizontal flicker (horizontal lines "jitter" or "jump" a few pixels up and down). Also, I'm getting faint vertical banding across the screen. It's useable, but not the best.

The NEC 1760V is listed in the sync on green database as working, but with a "flicker" issue, which is what I'm seeing I guess.

So my question is: is this just a compatibility issue between my monitor and the xbox's weird VGA signal? Or is there some setting I can change to sort this out? Some HSYNC setting or something like that?

Thanks!

B

FrostyTheSnowman · « **Reply #19 on:** September 29, 2007, 12:50:00 AM »

Without tapping into the internal sync lines, it is hard it get a perfectly synced signal.

Building the LM1881N-based diagram in the above tutorial has always worked best for me though, but on a Sync-on-Green monitor I probably wouldn't do much to improve that problem.

If at all possible, I recommend using Viewsonic CRTs with this mod, or Acer LCDs. (from my experience) Because some monitors really just don't like the weird sync and the excessive voltage of the XBOX's component lines (component lines are nowhere near normal VGA specs), and those monitors are simply more friendly with this fact.

Sadly, nothing can be done easily for non-working monitors...

xman954 · « **Reply #20 on:** September 30, 2007, 12:39:00 PM »

QUOTE

all I want is to watch movies in high resolutions on my HDTV

then all you need is a cable (xbox has a very hard time playing true HD movies, but XBMC will upconvert standard ones)
this bios is for VGA computer monitors only...

EBgames/gamestop did sell a store brand cable that works great for $14.95 (xbox/xbox360)
not the mad cats (junk)

dokworm · « **Reply #21 on:** June 11, 2008, 03:37:00 AM »

So was this the very last flashable vga bios released?

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