hey guys just bought my new xbox 360 vga cable from tech2. the problem is that i got everything plugged in and can hear the sound but cant get a display. so any of u guys out there whos also using lcd monitor to play plz enlighten me

Your monitor support 640 x 480? I think that's the default res output by 360 plugging in VGA cable for the first time

nah my monitor support 1024x768.btw i cant find the plug for the vga cable

That's the monitor's native.. may be you can set your desktop to run on on 640 x 480 and see whether it can run on that res first. And what do you mean by plug for the VGA cable?

like theres a plug that i usually use to connect my monitor to my pc but i tried using that to try and connect to my 360 but it dosent fit

Doesn't fit? There's only one kind D-Sub 15 pin in this world, and it's universal.. unless the gender doesn't match. Must be from opposite "sex" for connection, otherwise you'd need a gender changer

so wut shuld i do?

You got a third party VGA cable right? You can try finding the gender changer from computer stores, they are pretty common.

how much are they?

That I can't be sure, but should be a few bucks only

well ok thx alot dude

I hope that's the problem

This? Last time I get for 40..

ye thats the one

dude , just get a hdmi to dvi cable and break the original casing of the xbox av cable so that you can plug in hdmi and av cable same time. no work buy cable from microsoft. you only need rm40 to buy hdmi to dvi cable to do this. but hav to make sure ur lcd got dvi.

any idea on where the gender changers are?because i cant seem to find them

Gender changers.. watda..
Is that the stuff that allows you to connect to speaker?

nope

can the xbox socket of this cable be pulled out for hdmi to fit in together? if yes. can someone please show how. thanks.

I don't quite get what you mean.. Did you mean plugging HDMI and VGA cable on your 360 at the same time? Or using VGA cable and convert to HDMI?

plug in at the same time in both of the "holes". lol! this thread is starting to get weird.

usin hdmi for picture and vga for sound.

That's possible.. If you are using 3rd party VGA cable then it shouldn't have problem at all using both at once (my previous setting). But you'd need to mod the official/replica by cutting some part of the plastic case to fit in both. Alternatively you could get the official HDMI cable that comes with a audio plug or just get the audio plug from goldenshop.com

sorry for lilbit offtopic

can I using hdmi to dvi converter, connect and play with widescreen LCD, does it fully play hmdi resolution or limited to certain resolution

ie
xbox ---hdmi cable---hdmi-dvi---lcd = ?

dvi is the same as HDMI.so u wont get any degradation in term of resolution or graphic quality. the different is just hdmi can deliver video and audio while dvi is only video. even though u are using hdmi to dvi converter, it only converts the connector, signal itself remains the same and no signal conversion if u're using hdmi-dvi.

Question 1: does the quality differ if you use the VGA cable at the same resolution as the HDMI?

Question 2: any guides as to opening the said vga cable? seems diff from the ori cable tat comes with the xbox.

Some might argue otherwise but I can clearly see the difference of hooking VGA and HDMI/DVI. HDMI gives sharper image than my official VGA cable.

yeah it should be. VGA still transmit using analog signal so there might be inteference from the surroundings.

okie... so wat abt Q1?

lol i actually solved my problem days ago so if you guys have nothing more to discuss im gonna close this topic k?