X-Box's are OVERHEATING !

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Xbox 360 overheating
Staff reporter
Wed, 23 Nov 2005

The world is ablaze with the launch of the Xbox 360 in the US on Tuesday, but already hardware problems are surfacing, reports Next-Gen.biz.

Apparently a lot of newly bought Xbox 360's are overheating, which might be linked to the hard drive.

The following quotes were pulled by Next-Gen.biz from these forums:

TomStrong at GA-Forum wrote:
"I play Kameo (interesting game) for about 30 minutes and the 360 crashes!!! Ugh.... Power adaptor goes from solid green to a flashing orange... What next? Well, shoot off an e-mail to MS, get one back not too long ago, find out that the flashing orange means that Xbox has overheated!

Zeebo at Xbox Scene wrote:
"I just received my Xbox 360 today. It was freezing cold so I let it sit for about an hour. Plugged everything in got it up and started playing COD 2. I completed training and while it was loading it just went to a black screen. I waited for awhile and nothing happened so I turned it off, let it sit and turned it back on. I turned it back on to 3 red flashing lights. The top left and the two bottom.

"I found out that it's the hard drive. They said they have received numerous calls already. I unplugged my hard drive and it worked fine. Put it back on my box and red lights again."

Reaver at TeamXbox wrote:
"It worked when I set all my settings up. But I put in PGR3, it freezes when I get to the menu, did it 3 times. I put in PDZ, it freezes in the menu."

Yannira also at TeamXbox wrote:
"All five of the games I bought freeze up after a few minutes, I am assuming because of the 360 heating up. It gets unusually hot, the game discs as well are red hot.

/End.

sigh. I am soooooo surprised - NOT.
 
Hmm, lucky by the time it gets to us these problems should be sorted.(hey you have to look at the bright side)
 
@ 4cer.

Agreed!
I'm desperate to get my hands on the xbox 360, but I'll rather wait for these issues to be resolved first.
 
@BrendenB

And what about waiting to see what the PS3 can do ?

Hmmmm ..... $ony has been pretty quiet, i thought they would have been blowing bucket loads of cash on advertising the PS3 while
the xbox360 was being launched.
 
@ mccrack

Well, I've never really been a Sony fan.
I know the PS3 will be more powerfull, but I have my reservations on whether it can compete with xbox Live.
I've read on a couple of forums that Sony's online service leaves alot to be desired.
 
LOL, can you believe a Sony exec. paid $3000 for a Xbox 360 Premium on eBay?

The amount of teasing he's going to get from is co-workers are going to be tremendous.
 
BrendenB said:
@ mccrack

Well, I've never really been a Sony fan.
I know the PS3 will be more powerfull, but I have my reservations on whether it can compete with xbox Live.
I've read on a couple of forums that Sony's online service leaves alot to be desired.
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Xbox Live is great... (apparently) but will we ever know? Are there plans for it to launch here? if not, then how will it ever affect us?
 
Yes, Microsoft is launching the 360 here next year according to Steve Ballmer himself.

As far as 360 versus PS3 goes. There's an interesting article on tgdaily, the guy reckons this is the "first" 360. When the PS3 launches next year MS will add things like HD DVD, probably built in wifi to knock the steam out of Sony sales.

In all honesty the consoles are probably pretty evenly match, maybe giving 10-20% either way.

Me? I'll wait for the Revolution thanks. It may not be as powerful, but it just seems a hell of a lot more interesting. Can you imagine playing battlefield with the new controller? I think the Revolution may be about to take the shooter king title away from the Xbox.
 
Hold on doobiwan, the shooter king is the PC! Yeah!!

BUT the Rev should be interesting. All the Nintendo control devices have changed gaming so far. I'm expecting the same from the Rev

Can't wait for Episode MXII: Create your own Jedi!
 
Remains to be seen. heheheh

I'm hoping for more House Of The Dead kinda stuff. I bought an extra long cable for my PS2 Gun so I could duck behind stuff for fun. I am lame.

Meanwhile, I can't believe the XBOXes are overheating. I got an OLD HDD in my PS2 which could be used to braai, and have no problems with it. What HDDs are in the XBOXes?
 
y do u ppl wanna buy consoles when u have a pc.
Waiting for dvd-drives etc when its all here on pc already.
Wondering how the wi-fi will work and how internet will work on it, when with a pc its here already, working.
Besides that the games r gonna cost u R500 a piece probs...consoles always break and are harder 2repair than pc's cos u gotta send em in and that takes long. Esp in SA. Then u get some chinese version back and dnt kno wtf is going on.

Pc ftw!

J
 
4cer said:
Hmm, lucky by the time it gets to us these problems should be sorted.(hey you have to look at the bright side)
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By the time we get the Xbox360, the next generation console will be out :p
 
justinct said:
y do u ppl wanna buy consoles when u have a pc.
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You can't play Final Fantasy X on a PC. Or Metal Gear Solid 3. Or Gran Turismo. Or Soul Calibur 3. There are lots of games that don't get ported to the PC, some of which are excellent. When was the last time a decent fighter was on the PC? Mortal Kombat 3?
 
Yip, consoles are for N00b gamers and a waste of cash. PC's are the best. Anything a console can do a PC can do 1000000000000 times better, it's been proven time and time again.
 
lord_spaceman said:
Yip, consoles are for N00b gamers and a waste of cash. PC's are the best. Anything a console can do a PC can do 1000000000000 times better, it's been proven time and time again.
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Hey I gotta ask, do you own a console? I had the same attitude until I got my PS2.
 
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