I want to connect my 360 to display through a spare computer monitor. The monitor is a 17 inch 1280 x 1024, with both DVI and VGA inputs. What cables are available for me to use, and how should I handle sound, assuming I can get my hands on some spare stereo equipment.

I use the xbox 360 VGA cable. Its just a regular video cable that has a Male VGA end (mine came with a VGA female-female adapter incase your monitor already has a VGA cable), and it has a left/right audio cable.

I use it to play xbox on my 22" LCD. I plugged the VGA cable into my monitor, and stuck a left/right to 3.5mm audio adapter on the audio cable and plugged it into my sound card to output sound onto my computer speakers. It works great.

Unfortunately they dont make a DVI version.

VGA cord is your best bet since that is the only cord that supports 1280x1024 and several other resolutions.

If you have an HDMI 360 you can hook up via DVI-HDMI cord. But seeing as it's a 1280 x 1024 monitor it probably would have a difficult time with resolution compatibility which is only limited to 480x853, 720x1280 and 1920x1080 with HDMI.

Thanks for the advice. I ran out, and the Microsoft brand VGA cable works great. However, I am without a spear set of speakers and therefore without sound unless I give up using my computer's speakers for the console. Slayer, you spoke about plugging the adapted sound output into your sound card, I'll try that.

I have an Audio In port on my sound card (mine is blue colored) and I just plugged it into that using the adapter. I then had to go into my sound settings and adjust the audio-in volume to max, I think it was set to mute by default, or something like 50%. As long as the computer is turned on, the audio comes through just fine.