Topic: Put A Vga Port On The Back Of Your 360! (Read 608 times)

ImmortalZ · « **Reply #90 on:** May 04, 2008, 03:10:00 AM »

Tried this yesterday on my Falcon. The pins were spaced differently (for the HDMI port, no doubt).

It worked. Sorta. My Dell 2005FPW displayed it rather badly. It kept going dark as resolutions increased and there was a huge amount of distortion on (looked like wind wash). Plugged it to my 6 year old Philips CRT and it worked beautifully, albeit with a slight white tint to the right of edges with high contrast.

Ultimately ended up removing the mod since fixing the problem would require the twisted pair cabling and to get the cables out of the 'box, I'd have to cut the case and shell, which I don't have the tools for at the moment.

Anyway, thanks for the tutorial - it works. But do use the TP wiring or you'll have problems with monitors which don't like slightly attenuated signals.

Chimp5000 · « **Reply #91 on:** May 06, 2008, 02:29:00 AM »

Hey, I think this is going to be the next thing I do to my 360, and I mean within the next few days too. However, would I be able to add a toslink port as well as a headphone jack at the same time? Will that cause any problems? Thanks man, amazing tutorial too!

fableman · « **Reply #92 on:** July 15, 2008, 05:28:00 AM »

I've done it either, but I noticed a few problems: colors are like dried out abit (not vivid) and I always hear somekind of tiny buzz in my speakers (bad shielding?). Any ideas?

Fuzzymannerz · « **Reply #93 on:** July 30, 2008, 09:10:00 AM »

Great tutorial man, been messing around with stuff for a while now but never really been confident with soldering, never attempted it before but this makes me want to have a go and ditch the messy electrical tape.
All I need now is a soldering iron, I think I might have the rest laying around somewhere. haha

biopcb · « **Reply #94 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:36:00 PM »

since no editing. just adding something. my other monitor wouldnt work. i had to wire a switch between monitor_id and ground on the av header to make it work. i soldiered the switch to the usb/ethernet port shroud, worked out nicely. sucks of i ever get wireless adapter id have to make it internal or make a slot on the back of it to make room for my switch. ill post pics when i get a chance.

biopcb · « **Reply #95 on:** August 10, 2008, 11:52:00 AM »

my vga mod

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attached the switch to ethernet port. some odd reason my montor didnt use monitor_id pin.

brandogg · « **Reply #96 on:** August 10, 2008, 01:20:00 PM »

That looks pretty nice, can you post a better pic?

biopcb · « **Reply #97 on:** August 11, 2008, 02:32:00 AM »

heres a scan of back, odd came out in b/w ah well

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bigheadnick · « **Reply #98 on:** August 27, 2008, 10:54:00 AM »

Is it possible to add an hdmi port like you added the vga? to older consoles that dont have the hdmi? Or would u also have to swap the older drive with a new one to make it work? Oh and take it easy on me if this is a stupid question cuz im a bit new to electronics.

brandogg · « **Reply #99 on:** August 27, 2008, 10:22:00 PM »

It's not possible to add an HDMI port to an older console withough HDMI - but it *may* be possible to add HDMI to a "new" non-HDMI system (currently only used for refurbs, the "Opus" motherboard).

brandogg · « **Reply #100 on:** August 28, 2008, 08:19:00 PM »

An Opus will only be inside a refurbished non-HDMI system, eg. you won't find one in a store. It's not the GPU that "doesn't accept HDMI", the old system's scaler (ANA) can't use HDMI, the new ones (HANA) can. The real advantage with HDMI is the 100% digital video signal, so you see the game exactly as it was intended. The downside is you'll probably have more noticeable aliasing (jaggies) in some games, but the improved contrast/brightness/clarity more than makes up for it.

Demonhawk · « **Reply #101 on:** January 21, 2009, 11:43:00 AM »

I just completed this mod and I was semi successful. For the vga hookup I soldered all the ground connections together on the port and then for the connection itself I used a piece of cat 5 cable. The video looks great and I have the option of running it at 1650x1080.

The only problem I have is the audio sounds bad. There is a buzzing and when streaming things from netflix sometimes you can't hear all the sounds. Like voices will be really low but background sounds will be normal. I double checked all my connections and everything but I still have the problem.

Any suggestions?

YoungGeekGuy · « **Reply #102 on:** January 22, 2009, 05:29:00 PM »

Just a hint, if you have a newer mobo with HDMI and a DVI monitor and have a spare set of cables you can break off the plastic case on the A/V cables bend it, and put in a HDMI to DVI. I do it, it looks great and the xbox just recognizes it as VGA mode. I messed up my cables though but I have spares and only use optical when I am playing in my room

I may add VGA at some point but not yet when I can get some DVI. I really want a 24" monitor though, that would get me some 1080p

da-shizle · « **Reply #103 on:** February 23, 2009, 03:25:00 PM »

Hello all.
I followed the mod and I did all this things correct and I get the "out of range" message on my monitor and on the HDready tv, nothing comes up.
what could be the problem, i also tried to change to the lowest resolution before testing the vga.
my vga monitor, is 1080, full HD. so it should work

RepublicOfAstra · « **Reply #104 on:** March 10, 2009, 10:21:00 PM »

Thanks for the great tutorial, I followed it just fine a month or two ago and it works great. Just thought I'd post about a small addition I made to it. Bought a stereo audio pot from RadioShack and wired it up to the audio port so I can adjust the volume when I'm using headphones on it.

Btw, realize the back looks like shit. Oh well, functionality is more important than the looks of something I'll hardly look at.

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