XB360 Crash Fix
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scooby_dooby
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Qroach said:
ya i've left mine on for nearly 2 days now, waste of power but I wanna test it out. Not a single freeze-up yet...
scooby_dooby
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Slay said:
I don't see how it can be a design flaw if I can play COD2 for hours on end flawlessly.
More like a manufacturing flaw in your case.
cloudscapes
Regular
If it is an overheating issue, then I wonder if influence room/home/outside temperature has an influence on it being unstable or not. My guess is this plays a good role.
Also, IMHO saying that you've left a console *on* for two days results in a stable cooling system is irrelevant, sicne there isn't a particuarily high load on idle hardware.
Anyways, it's probably not one factor. Most likely a bunch of things, liek manufacturing defect with room temperature, etc.
Also, IMHO saying that you've left a console *on* for two days results in a stable cooling system is irrelevant, sicne there isn't a particuarily high load on idle hardware.
Anyways, it's probably not one factor. Most likely a bunch of things, liek manufacturing defect with room temperature, etc.
london-boy said:
Also, those who got their 360s in the first batch are mostly hardcore gamers since they are the ones to have preordered early, waited online overnight, etc. This group is much more likely to go online to gaming forums and complain. So not only are you hearing about JUST the problem units, but your sample group is one where probably 80% of them complain are pre-disposed to tell their tale of woe online to the world.
No, and I can show you a Dell Inspiron motherboard that literally gets warped due to heat, till the point where it will eventually contact the chasis and short out. (Actually, I can't show you the motherboard anymore, since I had it replaced under warranty from Dell. But a search of the Dell support forums for "Inspiron" and "randomly shuts off" should turn up many heat related issues.)Powderkeg said:
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Ok do you think that this molten disk is due to power supply issues? http://img397.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pgr27es.gifFireGoblin said:
Is this due to a faulty drive? or the fact that the GPU is located right under it?
Assuming, for a moment, that this is an image is a genuine issue (I'm taking it that it isn't yours, given your location), then its likely to be something specific to that unit since we this was neither discovered in Q&A when designing the unit nor have all users featured the same issue as yet.Slay said:
Master-Mold
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Slay said:
Maybe I am dense, but whats wrong in that picture?
It simply looks like the PGR3 DVD in a games case that has a few broken teeth in the part hat grabs the innards of th DVD to hold it snug.
I just got back from my thankgiving leave from my parent's home.
they've become really frugal over the years and have actually not turned on the heater or A/C and so the house was incredibly cold.
I brought my 360 to show them and my brothers and was worried it would crash, but knowing that it was freezing in my parent's house I thought it would be a good experiment.
Well, it didn't crash once. I was pleasantly suprised. But it might all be in my mind too. I've been back for a few hours and a friend came over to play PDZ with me and it didn't crash once, but when we tried to play on Xbox Live I would connect to a game but connection would fail. I'm using the wireless adapter so I played around with that but still, no avail, I'm going to try to run a CAT5 and see if it makes a difference.
The thing about elevating the PSU, I kinda had mine against the side of the cabinet to help the cord reach the 360 sitting on the countertop so maybe that might have helped.
But I'm going to echange my system anyways, if it fracked up more than once before, it could still frack up again.
they've become really frugal over the years and have actually not turned on the heater or A/C and so the house was incredibly cold.
I brought my 360 to show them and my brothers and was worried it would crash, but knowing that it was freezing in my parent's house I thought it would be a good experiment.
Well, it didn't crash once. I was pleasantly suprised. But it might all be in my mind too. I've been back for a few hours and a friend came over to play PDZ with me and it didn't crash once, but when we tried to play on Xbox Live I would connect to a game but connection would fail. I'm using the wireless adapter so I played around with that but still, no avail, I'm going to try to run a CAT5 and see if it makes a difference.
The thing about elevating the PSU, I kinda had mine against the side of the cabinet to help the cord reach the 360 sitting on the countertop so maybe that might have helped.
But I'm going to echange my system anyways, if it fracked up more than once before, it could still frack up again.
FireGoblin
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Quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#Central_processing_unit
"Microsoft hasn't officially released a solution for this yet, though there are rumors that in some cases the cause is due to an overheated power supply. The problem may be solved by putting it on a cool surface (such as wood or tile instead of a rug) or raising it from the ground. It remains to be seen, however, if the problem is present in the European version, as, if the problem is indeed power-related, it is very possibly limited to North America. No problems have been reported (or at least known to have been reported) regarding the demo-kiosks in Europe."
Quite interesting - hadn't considered that the different voltages used in Europe might mean we bypass the power brick problems.
Note: I did do a BEng in Electrical Engineering, but it was far too many years (and beers!) ago to remember the relationships between voltage, phase and heating effects!
"Microsoft hasn't officially released a solution for this yet, though there are rumors that in some cases the cause is due to an overheated power supply. The problem may be solved by putting it on a cool surface (such as wood or tile instead of a rug) or raising it from the ground. It remains to be seen, however, if the problem is present in the European version, as, if the problem is indeed power-related, it is very possibly limited to North America. No problems have been reported (or at least known to have been reported) regarding the demo-kiosks in Europe."
Quite interesting - hadn't considered that the different voltages used in Europe might mean we bypass the power brick problems.
Note: I did do a BEng in Electrical Engineering, but it was far too many years (and beers!) ago to remember the relationships between voltage, phase and heating effects!
