REALLY old bump
but I thought this was a useful topic, came across it in the search a few dyas ago
motivated me to do the mod myself cause i didnt wanna spend the 40 bucks on a vga cable when i knew i could do it myself.
well, here goes: (yes, the pics are really crappy, my webcam has to hold me over till my new camera arrives)
(IMG:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/g0t_m4xx_21/Dev/Picture18.jpg)
(IMG:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/g0t_m4xx_21/Dev/Picture17.jpg)
Each signal on the VGA port is twisted around its respective ground, to reduce interferance, and I used some actual audio coax cable to hook up the audio to the jack i installed. As you can probably see, I didn't rip apart the metal shield on the AVIP, i just ran the wires under the motherboard and soldered them to the pins down there (they're convienently numbered the same as in Speedy22's Xbox 360 headers and connectors document:
dwl.xbox-scene.com/tutorial/Xbox_360-HandC-V1_4.pdf )
As for the wire that must be grounded to enable VGA mode, I found an unused pin on the VGA plug that is tied to ground inside my monitor or something, so when there's nothing connected to the VGA port the 360 functions normally based on what's connected into the AVIP, but as soon as a VGA cable is plugged in it goes into VGA mode.
the overall result was very good, looks amazing at 1280x1024
This post has been edited by G0t M4xx 21: Jun 1 2006, 08:14 PM