Ok, so I've a somewhat familiar problem of i've decided to plug HDMI->DVI into my monitor. Yay shiny colours, boo no sound.
After reading about tearing apart the casing on my component cable so they can both fit, i realised that i had an old VGA 360 cable which was alot thinner. I plug it in and yay they both fit. However the 360 automatically boots to the VGA, not to the HDMI/DVI. Now i have read that the 360 is supposed to default to HDMI if available yet it doesn't seem to be doing this.
I've attempted playing with menus, removing VGA then plugging in after a successful boot to HDMI, but this serves only to reset the console and boot in VGA. I tried doing the reverse hoping if I plugged the HDMI during successful VGA start, but it just resets then continues with VGA.
So I'm officially out of ideas, there is no visible switch i can see to change between HDMI and the normal outlet or anything obvious like that! Does anyone have any ideas how i can avoid either buying one of those optical outs or destroying my component cable?
Ok done that. I now have my slimmed down component cable plugged in and my HDMI. However still the exact same problem. On both SD and HD modes it defaults to the component cable not the HDMI.
Weird. I know a lot of people use both an HDMI cord and component AV cord for surround sound. I've never heard of this problem before.
Maybe something about the HDMI cable or DVI adapter is just not registering correctly with the 360? Some signal is screwy perhaps? You might want to try a different HDMI cord or DVI adapter.
Or, it could have to do with your monitor not giving the same signal as a full-on TV does. You may want to try your current setup on a different monitor or television and see if you can narrow the issue down from cables or 360 or the TV to just one possibility.
If you can't get anything else to work you could always use a VGA-->DVI adapter for your monitor, and just use the VGA cable.
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Well my monitor accepts VGA, just i was hoping to receive HDMI through the DVI port as my monitor doesn't seem to like component 1080p. I suppose i'll just have to decide whether to stick with 720p component, buy the AV audio thing for the 360 or buy a VGA -> DVI adapter and see if that'll give me 1080p.
I'm starting to think it'd be a lot easier if I just had a TV! Thanks for the help anyway.
Haha, no problem. Good luck. If you solve the problem, please post back here just in case anyone is ever searching online for a solution to this problem :)
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