Comments on: Attempt to Reveal Microsoft Xbox 360 Failure Root Cause

By: Club ReM

Club ReM — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:35:11 +0000

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By: Webterractive

Webterractive — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:52:55 +0000

I believe this failure rate in the consoles is an unusual anti-piracy method. The first Xbox proved too easy to open up and modify for the purpose of using pirated games. The new 360 uses both hardware and system failsafe measures. Pretty much making people keep their Xboxs’ closed and unmodified. A company extending the warranty for 3 additional years with this high failure rate is very unusual. This way people won’t rush to flash these DVD-ROMS because of the fear that their system might fail. Mine is failing again, and its the same issue. Red Ring of Death, followed by a resurrection and now by constant game play failure prompting me to return my kosher console back to MSFT so they can debug it and send it back to me. Imagine piracy for MSFT was 14+ billion, fail rate fix 1 billion.

By: Infamous Ghost

Infamous Ghost — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:13:21 +0000

AG shut the fuck up you sony fanboy go play your 2 games on your ps3

By: ZLoserKing

ZLoserKing — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:55:07 +0000

I’ve seen the blanket trick. I suspect heat is causing something to warp resulting in a faulty connection somewhere. If there is too little contact between the metal pieces(or thinner “wire”) resitance is increased resulting in decreased current. Insuffecient current in a circuit then results in the RROD.

Its possible the original beta machines used a component from a different manufacturer for the “critical” piece and was changed at the last minute?

By: ag

ag — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:09:11 +0000

Yeah I have an idea, the 360 is piece of crap that Microsoft threw into the market because the original xbox was already dead and nobody was buying, forcing the others to release “next gen” systems, so as to not fall behind technologically.