Put A Vga Port On The Back Of Your 360!, Improved pinouts with auto detection (no switch) Options

[lardlad123]

I am thinking about doing something like this to an extra 360 that I picked up for cheap. I have few questions before I try it though.

-Could I use an extra floppy or IDE cable for all the wire needed?
-Can I just cut off the vga port from an old video card and use it instead of buying one?
-Can I use my cheap 30 watt soldering iron from radio shack or should I buy something better with like 15 watts?

-I used the exact wire, I think its 30 awg guage wire
-I pretty much did that by desoldering it from a fried card
-I used a 15 watt but I'm sure It'll work with a 30 watt, but don't hold it to the board for too long

Thanks for the guide, tried it out on my 17' lcd and it looks great. So I decided to buy an official cable to be more tidy and neat.

This post has been edited by lardlad123: Jun 22 2008, 11:05 AM

[fableman]

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]

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]

just did this mod, used some network cable pairs to do it looks sweet on monitor. the audio jack was a pain. my jack had all its legs on same side to i tryed super glue, no go, poped right off when i plug speakers in, i had to make a bracket to solder to av shield then solder bracket to jacks side clips. little extra work but came out great. house still smells like melted plastic from modding the case >.<

[biopcb]

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]

my vga mod



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

This post has been edited by biopcb: Aug 10 2008, 06:52 PM

[brandogg]

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

[biopcb]

maybe when i get mt friends cam. i use my crappy cellphone for that pic lol maybe ill lay back of the 360 on my scanner and try it that way lol

This post has been edited by biopcb: Aug 10 2008, 08:29 PM

[biopcb]

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

[bigheadnick]

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]

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).

[bigheadnick]

Oh, so its what programmed into the gpu to accept hdmi? And without the new mobos which are programmed for hdmi it cant be done< or something to that effect I guess.Im just wondering.,arent they both 1080? I thought the only advantage to hdmi was less clutter bcuz no component cables.I didnt realize it was affected by what mobo was in it.Oh I still got much to learn grasshopper.

btw how do u know an opus when u see it??

[brandogg]

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.

[bigheadnick]

K thanks

[Demonhawk]

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?