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[johnnyrico]

no offense taken, just keep up the good work

[Agrooreo]

Back to the top so I can find this tomorrow without search working. Nice tut by the way.

[Textbook]

QUOTE(Murmlgrmpf @ Jan 30 2006, 05:49 PM)

your guide is a really helpful compilation!

I built my vga adapter with a poti in order to figure out the best resistance.
One thing you really should add to your tutorial is this comment of Leeloo5 :
In order to enable hdtv 480p blindly under ms dashboard:
boot with vga calbe hooked to your xbox
[go blindly to msdashboard launch in your os]
then type:

When at the MS dashboard do this:
Down 5 times, Hit A
Down 3 times, Hit A
Down 1 time, Hit A
Left 1 time, Hit A
Hit B 3 times to go back to main menu.
Reboot

and voila green tint image !! great.

Not necessary anymore since with the latest MS Dash (5960) you can simply press the Left trigger, Right trigger, and click both thumbsticks down simultaneously to "switch" to 480p temporarily.  Then, you can see and enable 480p in the menu the normal way, seeing everything as you go.  Of course, the blind mode will still work, but it's no longer necessary to have to be blind.

QUOTE(Murmlgrmpf @ Jan 30 2006, 05:49 PM)

Ah yeah one last question: i have got a tsopped xbox v1.0 (with fan on gpu) thus connexant. what would you recommend:
either to flash tsop with ind bios
or to install a "softmod" on top and using
-pbl and ind bios
-nkpatcher and doctor's patch

Option 1 and 2 that you listed will both work.  In fact, it's pretty much using the same BIOS, just in a different method of launching it and a different bootable form of the BIOS.  Option 3 that you listed (NKP and DR's VGA Patch) will not work with Conexant video encoders.  All blacks will be red on an LCD and all reds will be blacks on a CRT.  He still hasn't figure out this issue.  He came out with a new build for people to test out.  When they tried it, it would lock up the Xbox.  I hope he is still going to work on it, but I don't think he will unfortunately.  So yeah, either flash the TSOP to the 1mb VGA iND 5001 BIOS by junkmonkey, or you can boot PBL and have it load a 1mb VGA iND 5001 BFM BIOS by junkmonkey.

QUOTE(Murmlgrmpf @ Jan 30 2006, 05:49 PM)

i could even just launch the two last ones using my bios. (without a softmod)
If you are interested, i could help you validate your results (in a different thread i read you were testing some patches for nkpatcher)

Well, I would basically just like to get Conexant VGA support with Dr's patch because it is a lot easier than my current setup.

Right now, my current setup is:
1.  Set up a dual-altdash with Krayzie's NDURE 1.1
2.  PBL-Lite as the altdash, loading 1mb VGA BFM iND BIOS
3.  Since that BIOS is set to load C:/evoxdash.xbe, I had to go into Krayzie's Extras, then Proffesional Mode, and upload an XBE shortcut to the true C drive and named it evoxdash.xbe

[JaredC01]

QUOTE(Textbook @ Feb 12 2006, 12:15 PM)

Not necessary anymore since with the latest MS Dash (5960) you can simply press the Left trigger, Right trigger, and click both thumbsticks down simultaneously to "switch" to 480p temporarily.  Then, you can see and enable 480p in the menu the normal way, seeing everything as you go.  Of course, the blind mode will still work, but it's no longer necessary to have to be blind.

Option 1 and 2 that you listed will both work.  In fact, it's pretty much using the same BIOS, just in a different method of launching it and a different bootable form of the BIOS.  Option 3 that you listed (NKP and DR's VGA Patch) will not work with Conexant video encoders.  All blacks will be red on an LCD and all reds will be blacks on a CRT.  He still hasn't figure out this issue.  He came out with a new build for people to test out.  When they tried it, it would lock up the Xbox.  I hope he is still going to work on it, but I don't think he will unfortunately.  So yeah, either flash the TSOP to the 1mb VGA iND 5001 BIOS by junkmonkey, or you can boot PBL and have it load a 1mb VGA iND 5001 BFM BIOS by junkmonkey.

Well, I would basically just like to get Conexant VGA support with Dr's patch because it is a lot easier than my current setup.

Right now, my current setup is:
1.  Set up a dual-altdash with Krayzie's NDURE 1.1
2.  PBL-Lite as the altdash, loading 1mb VGA BFM iND BIOS
3.  Since that BIOS is set to load C:/evoxdash.xbe, I had to go into Krayzie's Extras, then Proffesional Mode, and upload an XBE shortcut to the true C drive and named it evoxdash.xbe

Not a bad little tutorial...  I've actually been thinking about working on a tutorial in flash using my diagrams, with all of the extra's.  You've just inspired me to start working on it .  Expect to see something about it in a few days.

[Textbook]

EDIT:  I just now realized I used two of your guides.  The VGA one and the Halo 2 crouch switch.  Just letting you know both of your tutorials have helped me out.  I guess we have the same interests.  I love my crouch switch controller!  When I play on a different controller, I'm always hitting my left hand middle finger down and thinking "Oh, stupid non-crouch switch controller - noob"

[JaredC01]

QUOTE(Textbook @ Feb 18 2006, 12:52 AM)

EDIT:  I just now realized I used two of your guides.  The VGA one and the Halo 2 crouch switch.  Just letting you know both of your tutorials have helped me out.  I guess we have the same interests.  I love my crouch switch controller!  When I play on a different controller, I'm always hitting my left hand middle finger down and thinking "Oh, stupid non-crouch switch controller - noob"

Haha, glad to know I've helped you out in more than one way .

[jeff d]

Ok, this is wierd.

I got fed up with trying to solder my own cable so I went to Best Buy and got a "GameShark Universal Component Video/Audio Cable" for $15.  It had connectors on one end for both the PS2 and XBOX, Component and audio on the other.  I borrowed a 15 Pin VGA<-->RGBHV cable as well as 3 adapters to go from male RCA to BNC (Essentially the same as a Component<-->15 Pin VGA with RCA couplers because I didn't use the leads for H & V Sync).  I hooked it all up to the VGA port on a Sharp PG-A20X projector and it worked at 480P!

No bios reflash necessary.  I actually tried reflashing with the VGA BIOS and only then did I get the all green screen that I should be seeing with the xecuter BIOS.  It even works with the factory MS BIOS.

I then tried it on my Dell 18" UltraSharp and there I did have to use the VGA BIOS in order to get more than just green on the screen.

Anyway, apparenly at least some Sharp projectors will accept a pure "Component" signal through the VGA port with no BIOS modification.  Not sure why they just didn't put component inputs right on the side and save a lot of trouble.

[Icantfindanick]

Thank you for your tutorial.

I have built my own VGA cable, using those guides, I didn't need to use the LM circuit as my monitor (Dell UltraSharp 1800FP) supported Sync on Green. The first cable I built used the pins 13-14 and 9-10 as activated swithces (VGA), and this allowed me to get a nicely shown green Xbox error 21 screen on my monitor. I figured out that I would have to change the switches to component output (pins 13-14 and 11-12). I connected that to my monitor but I'm unable to get any image shown, so my guess was that I would have to switch to 480p mode.

My Xbox was originally PAL, but I edited the eeprom to make it work as NTSC so I could enable HD modes if I needed to. So I blindly try to get to the Video settings on the MS Dashboard and enable 480p, but I'm still not getting an image of any kind on my monitor after rebooting, (although by the sounds my guess is that the 480p - Yes setting was stored properly).

Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance.

[Textbook]

If you have the newest version of the MS Dashboard (5960), then you can take advantage of a new feature they added in.  You can temporarily turn on  480p with a button press combo without blindly. going down and hitting Settings > Video > 480p - Yes.  The button press is to simultaneously (at the same time) press and hold the Left Trigger, Right Trigger, and Click Both Thumbsticks Down.  This will turn on 480p in the dash, and if that was your problem, you will know right away because you will be seeing everything.

[yojimbo2k]

Hi Textbook

Great tutorial - all these tutorials are great as I'm attempting to get VGA output from my box... with no joy as of yet I might add. I updated to the latest MS Dash, am using an Iiyama flat panel that claims to sync on green, and have a mod chip installed. two quick questions for you though:

are your pin diagrams viewed from the back of the plug? e.g. I presume the 15pin d layout is from the back of the plug where the solder points are?

the avip plug numbering is throwing me a little. I presume the top end is the narrow point. however when I orient my plug to the same as your diagrams the pin tracks go lshort/long/short etc. instead of long/short/long like yours (if you follow me). Should I just ignore that entirely and presume that the numbering it the same just from the plug orientation?

I'm close to heaving the board out and attempting to solder direct to the board but my soldering inexperience (i managed the mod chip install but it was pin header) is putting me off a little - not to mention my first lovely burn from my iron that I got last night.

[yojimbo2k]

muahahahaha it's alive! VGA bios ahoy.

you sir are a genius. that's the only tutorial I managed to get working. thank you!

[Textbook]

You're welcome  

Haha, all 3 of your posts are in this thread, I feel special.

[Joshua Wood]

I'm thinking about maybe adding a vga port to my second xbox (not sure if I'm gonna keep it right now), but I was also thinking about possibilities where you use different monitors, one perhaps SOG, the other perhaps not. Would the solution to this be to install the sync seperator in conjunction with a switch (say maybe a STDP) to decide between the seperator or SOG?

[ClintiePoo]

This is a nice little tutorial. It's almost like a "pick your own adventure" novel.

[ClintiePoo]

I did this today.  Here are a couple of pictures off of my website.