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[DeadManWalking]

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This modification allows you to add a vga port to the back of your Xbox and connect your monitor to it. This is very useful if you plan on installing Xbox Linux and using your Xbox as a computer.

Tools needed
15 watt soldering Iron
Solder
Needle nose pliers
Precision lfat head screwdriver
Single strand wire
15 pin femaile Vga mount w/pin header
Dremel w/ cutting wheel and sanding wheel

Optional tools

Hot glue gun w/glue sticks


First let's drill the hole we need so we can mount the new VGA port to the case.For this we will need to remove the metal RF shielding.

Once the RF shielding is remove, locate the spot in between the ethernat pot and A/V pack
plugs in. Here we want to cut a hole so our VGA port can be mounted. Use your Dremel with cutting wheel to cut out a spuare section.



Once the RF shield has been cut, place it back into the Xbox case and cut another hole through the plastic casing.



Now lets work on connecting the VGA wires to the motherboard.



Take the VGA pin header and solder your wire to it. Crimp the pin header using your needle nose pliers to secure a fit. Create about eight of these wires/headers, try using different colored wires if posible, it will help in the long run by being able to discern which cable belongs to which solder point.



Below is a color coded scheme to match which wires get soldered.

Blue: Pin 1 to solder mount 19
Yellow: pin 2 to solder mount 22
Orange: pin 3 to solder mount 18
Purple: pin 6 to solder mount 17
Red: pin 7 to solder mount 20
Green: pin 8 to solder mount 16
Light Blue: pin 9 to solder mount 10
White: pin 13 to solder mount 14




Take the wire/pin header and push it into it's mounting hole on the VGA mount.



Use your precision screw driver to make sure it is pushed deep into it's spot.



Once all done you should have something that looks like the pictures below.




Solder the wires to the motherboard and place the board into the case. You can either mount the VGA port by screwing it into place or by hot gluing it. I recommend mounting it with screws as it will stay in much better.

 

[DeadManWalking]

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Thats it, you successfully installed and mounted a new VGA port.

[ubernewb]

sweet tut man, always nice to see someone doing something to help others.




one question though.. does it always put out vga are don't you have to jumper a couple solder points?

[SICKdimension]

I thought you needed a video sync separator or something?

[sick_mate_xbox]

nicely written.. good work mate!

[jayda]

I thought you needed a video sync separator or something?  


I think you only need one for some video synk errors that some monitors have.
Synk on green (SOG). Im ordering one of the LM1991 chips so i can have high deff and digital (using optical ), for not only my monitor but who knows not everyone has the hardware that would work.

[stevewal]

very clear tut
well done
are you using a vga bios such as the modified ind bios?

[Rebel-Soul]

so does this work on all monitors? or only some cuz i want to do this mod.

[ski-mask]

If i did this could i play halo with my computer monitor?  I already use the smartjoy frag and would love to use my computer monitor. Thanks, nice tut
cheers  

[esc1]

QUOTE(ubernewb @ Sep 29 2005, 03:43 AM)

sweet tut man, always nice to see someone doing something to help others.


one question though.. does it always put out vga are don't you have to jumper a couple solder points?

Your vacation was pretty short man.  Good question.  I would like to know the answer as well.

This doesn't give high def though though does it?

[Rebel-Soul]

i mean if it works like plug and play im gunna do this shit ASAP cuz its a shit hot mod.. and something i need  

[SICKdimension]

I'm doubting this tutorial, because others seem much more complex. I'd love to be proven wrong though. Have any replies, DeadManWalking? Have you tested it out?

[jayda]

There was another tut very close to this one,i think the only diff was they showed ways of connection insted of the cga, alos if you wanted you could put a dolby digital output from the xbox with less wires than the vga.

[The Timmy]

well, it looks like it should work.  without an LM1881 (video sync seperator IC) however, it would only work on Sync on Green monitors.  Also, you would need a VGA enabled bios or else everything will be very green, and quite dark.

I did one similar to this, only, instead of installing it directly to the xbox, I went out and got the HDTV pack for the xbox and installed it there with the extra circuitry:

[hdd on vga mod]

I like this way too, though.  it's less stuff to carry around.  you just need a DPDT toggle switch to properly wire the "jumper" points on the xbox main board from regular a/v output to vga output, unless you plan on being in VGA mode all the time.  And in my experience, it is a bit of trouble to get every game you play on the xbox, to properly show up in HD.  Also, since you need the VGA bios, no xbox live and HD at the same time (unless you can afford to buy a real HDTV).

[cyfi]

there was already a tut for this on the main page