bigkidoz wrote:Tight arse, spend the $10 and get a proper cable
Or just set fire to your house yourself. Nex's idea is the way you do it but use one of these plates and attach it to the case-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Compo ... o_jack.jpg
say whaaaaat?xman wrote: 3- if you reef on them you won't start a fire and burn your house to the ground.
Well, yes, of coarse it will if you wire it up correctly. You are going to need all 5 RCA sockets, the 3 required for the video and the 2 for the audio unless you want to only have optical sound or coax sound in which case you would use a socket to suit them and not the 2 RCAs for your sound. You will need to put the "link" in to tell the machine to output HD and you will still need to select it in the GUI. This is no different to what you are doing installing a component lead but you are hard-wiring it.GhostlyGamer wrote:
and yeah, that might be easier at this point, but does it allow HD?
so i would have the litle pin rack in there, but nothing coming out the back? just the correct jumper(s)? or multi jumpers with switches for the different video modes?xman wrote: Well, yes, of coarse it will if you wire it up correctly. You are going to need all 5 RCA sockets, the 3 required for the video and the 2 for the audio unless you want to only have optical sound or coax sound in which case you would use a socket to suit them and not the 2 RCAs for your sound. You will need to put the "link" in to tell the machine to output HD and you will still need to select it in the GUI. This is no different to what you are doing installing a component lead but you are hard-wiring it.
waaait, does that mean i could just buy a breakout like this and use a VGA bios?asbo wrote:For VGA, assuming you have a Sync on green monitor, its exactly the same as component.
asbo wrote:yes
! that also means i could solder a split onto componant and then solder vga to one end and the rest of the componant to the other? FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE (And im a cheap ass, and a poor ass, im using my islands free-cycle to get a tv for my room so i can actually test the mods)asbo wrote:you could but why not just plug the VGA bit in when you need it?
I think I had a similar experience before. The problem I had was the screen couldn't display a signal with the component cables without HD mode being enabled on the xbox. This created a bit of a paradox because you can't enable HD without component cables plugged in(well not that I could figure out anyway).twofires wrote:I've been having a nightmare with this, I have 2 cables, 1 is a cheap crap cable I bought on ebay years ago
and even though I've taken it apart and checked all connections, I can't get a signal on screen.
I've tried on 3 different boxes all switched to ntsc and on 2 different tv's.
So I put it down to it just being a crap cable and thought I'd make one myself from a composite cable,
now despite soldering/desoldering/resoldering the thing on quite a few occasions now and checking all connections
with a multimeter so I'm 100% sure they are right, I still can't get a signal on either tv
Is there something I'm missing?
Asbo you're a star, worked a treat on my tv (headache now goneasbo wrote:I think I had a similar experience before. The problem I had was the screen couldn't display a signal with the component cables without HD mode being enabled on the xbox. This created a bit of a paradox because you can't enable HD without component cables plugged in(well not that I could figure out anyway).twofires wrote:I've been having a nightmare with this, I have 2 cables, 1 is a cheap crap cable I bought on ebay years ago
and even though I've taken it apart and checked all connections, I can't get a signal on screen.
I've tried on 3 different boxes all switched to ntsc and on 2 different tv's.
So I put it down to it just being a crap cable and thought I'd make one myself from a composite cable,
now despite soldering/desoldering/resoldering the thing on quite a few occasions now and checking all connections
with a multimeter so I'm 100% sure they are right, I still can't get a signal on either tv
Is there something I'm missing?
The solution was, with the component cable plugged into the xbox, to plug the green connector into your displays composite(yellow) connection.
Doing this I got a fuzzy black and white image but I was able to see enough to enable HD mode.
Maybe that'll work for you.
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