No sound, xbox 360 on monitor

I have my pc hooked up to my monitor(gateway fhd 2400), and I also have my xbox 360 hooked up to my monitor with the red blue and green componet cables. I am not sure how I get get sound from the pc speakers? I knw that the 360 has an optical input on the cable, but I have no where to plug it in. My monitor does not have the red and white audio jacks on it. I do have a spare hdmi port on the back of the monitor not being used, but I have the original 360 without the hdmi hookup. Need help. Suggetions most appreciated.

Well thanks anyway Promac, I will just have to figure something else out. My sound card is the Sound Blaster X-Fi audio card. It doesn't have any optical ports, just a big vga like plug, and then the typical pink, blue, green, black plug in. Anybody else got any ideas?

Hey; sounds like a good setup. I am looking at doing a similar setup... For the sound; if your monitor DOES have speakers, they likely have two mono-standard 3.5mm headphone jacks (one for each channel). If you wish to use these; just get an RCA-3.5mm converter for the red/white jacks coming out of the XBOX (one for each cable), and plug them seperatelly into the monitor. If you wish to plug them into your sound card; that is a different animal... I am sure you can rig something out with the line-in port on your sound card by using a converting plug that converts the two RCA Red/White jacks into a single, stereo headphone jack. This would provide the line-level input into the card you need, and them allow playback over the speakers. Depends on the drivers that come with the card, I have never tried this, but it will be interesting.

The monitor I am looking at buying is one of the new Samsung 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor (2493HM).

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Hi.

I got the lead to link up my xbox 360 through my monitor which i done.

I then attempted to play the sound through my stereo speakers by plugging the red & white points into the Aux In point. The sound won't work properly. I can hear some sound but not others. For example on PES 2008 i can hear the music but can't hear commentary in the game.

Any ideas what happening? Is it just my stereo?

I had the same problem. I have a 22 inch monitor without speakers. Use an old stereo system if you have one laying around. I went into my garage and found an old, dusty stereo system. I plugged the xbox cables into the back, and then plugged some spare computer speakers into the headset jack on the stereo. Not all ports in the back worked properly, some only played select sounds, some were quieter than others also. For the person who only had only a few sounds come from the aux channel, try plugging the cables into a different port.