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360/PC on LCD monitor help!

POSTED BY: hornblowerracing 5 months, 3 weeks ago

My youngest currently has a Acer 1916w 19" LCD monitor than he runs his PC through, without any speakers.

He wants a 360 for Christmas, can I run them both from the same monitor as it only has one VGA port? Do they do some kind of splitter?

And how would the speakers fit into this setup?

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Easiest thing if possible is to unplug it between uses. Unless it has anymore ports?
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Easiest thing if possible is to unplug it between uses. Unless it has anymore ports?
Thats what I do... a quid extension cable from Maplins means It can lie on the desk and I don;t have to fiddle around the back of the monitor every time I want to switch them...
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Easiest thing if possible is to unplug it between uses. Unless it has anymore ports?
I'm pretty sure it's just the one VGA port?

I can unplug, but I wanted to connect the 360 to the PC for Live. I presume I can just plug it in via ethernet and it won't make a difference if the PC isn't connected to the monitor?

And for the speakers, do the do external ones that I can use on both the PC and 360 that don't go through the monitor?
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Thats what I do... a quid extension cable from Maplins means It can lie on the desk and I don;t have to fiddle around the back of the monitor every time I want to switch them...
Cheers for that, he's only 8 so I don't really want him yanking cables out behind it every five seconds! lol
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Thats what I do... a quid extension cable from Maplins means It can lie on the desk and I don;t have to fiddle around the back of the monitor every time I want to switch them...
Yes this is the only way you can do so.

As 1 PC to 2 VGA SVGA Monitor Y Splitter Cable / Lead UK

would require the machine to be off.

And the point below wants you to have the machine on for live.

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I'm pretty sure it's just the one VGA port?

I can unplug, but I wanted to connect the 360 to the PC for Live. I presume I can just plug it in via ethernet and it won't make a difference if the PC isn't connected to the monitor?

And for the speakers, do the do external ones that I can use on both the PC and 360 that don't go through the monitor?
Attach seperate speakers.

Monitor doesn't need to be on for the pc to work.


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Cheers for that, he's only 8 so I don't really want him yanking cables out behind it every five seconds! lol
You will have to do it for him
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I'm pretty sure it's just the one VGA port?

I can unplug, but I wanted to connect the 360 to the PC for Live. I presume I can just plug it in via ethernet and it won't make a difference if the PC isn't connected to the monitor?

And for the speakers, do the do external ones that I can use on both the PC and 360 that don't go through the monitor?
Could still be connected to live via ethernet - wouldn't make any difference if the monitor was connected or not...

As for speakers the 360 vga cable comes with a phono plug that goes ito the back of your monitor or you could plug it into a set of speakers...

There may well be a third party cable that includes a optical out? Can't remember if the official one does as it's at home (and i'm not!)
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As for a decent VGA extension cable. Posted a 2m one yesterday here.
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Cheers guys, repped you both.
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