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I’ve heard a few reports of this so I thought I’d look into it. Apparently it isn’t the new XBox 360 that’s overheating, it’s a batch of dodgy PSU’s. I’ve read of a few ways to overcome this, ranging from suspending it in the air with rope, to the daftest one – putting the red hot block on a cardboard box and hoping it won’t catch fire. Personally I’d rest it on a upturned colandar, but that’s not the point. If it’s faulty, take it back – availability issues aside.
I find this a bit shoddy myself, but if you you to the Microsoft XBOX 360 support page it helpfully directs you to this entry:
Xbox: The Xbox console freezes and you receive no error message
However, this was last reviewed on October 25, 2005, is specific to the first generation XBox and makes no mention of power supply problems.
Apparently there were problems with the first XBox’s PSU overheating too. It seems one family even sued them after it caused their house to burn down! Haven’t got an XBox to compare myself, but you’d think that if that was the case Microsoft would be rather more careful second time around, eh.
Anyway – and I’m not having a go at them – my feeling is that in offering a world wide release the sheer volume of units involved means that at times quality control will have been lax. I’ve worked in manufacturing, I know only too well of managers habit of passing suspect stock to meet quotas. You can get your last dollar that somewhere a Microsoft executive it chewing out a supplier…
All this doesn’t help you, eh. As my friend is fond of saying, ‘it happens, deal with it!
. Basically if you have a dodgy one, take it back to the shop. If you bought it online, either send it back or, preferably, get an RMA from Microsoft and get them to replace it, more likely to get it sorted properly that way.
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I'm getting the same problem but it has only started since I played Halo 3, worked fine for a year before that, now its crashing after about 10 mis of playing any game!
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hi, I had this random unexplained crashing with no warnings or errors, all it did was freeze, sometimes with big red patterns. I was told it was probably overheating but I had it by my window and it was COLD... Anyway I fixed it by clearing my Hard drive Cache, it tells you how on the ms website. or follow the link!
i too have persistant crashing /freezing problems but unlike others mine, does not have any warning light's displayed or error messages . first of it did this a few time every couple of hours now it wont even load the start up screen. very hard to get microsoft support to sort the problem out and a long winded process for them to arrange collection and repair..id rather have a new console to be honest as the things only 2 months old
All i can say is that you always get a bad batch in any product, microsoft are the leading edge of technoly and now and then they make mistakes, because they are a multi million pound company it does not make them robots, we are all human after all, but yes they should and try to fix this problem out.