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Errors Due To Overheating

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

There are numerous video game consoles available in the market for the video game lovers. But most of them aren’t branded. The number 1 computer games consoles are Xbox, trustafarian, PlayStation, Wii, and so on. Xbox and PlayStation are the top competitors in the Playstation game industry. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 2 hit the market at the same time. Microsoft launched Xbox 360 in late 2005 and just before that ; Sony launched its PlayStation two.

Difficulty with Xbox 360

even though Xbox 360 is the premiere Playstation game console, they are facing the big number of console failure. Many analyses have been done to find out the issue and it was found that the failure is due to the overheating of the console. Due to overheating of the console, the chips in the motherboard get damaged and entire motherboard is getting failed. The reason for the internal temperature is due to inadequate air flow inside the console. Absence of proper design and poor ventilation led to failure of hardware components in the console. Microsoft launched Xbox 360 in a rush just before Yuletide to get more sales. This is the actual reason for the failure in the design.

The X clamp situated in the motherboard is the main problem. These X clamps hold the heat sinks to drop the heat and cool down the processors. But due to unacceptable arrangement of the X clamps, the heat sinks fail to work. Xbox have the special feature to show the standing of the console, when it works superbly or when it gets into trouble. The 4 LED’s situated around the power ring area will indicate the status of the console. Removing the X clamps will figure out the red light problem. The overheating error will be indicated by the red lights. This is often known as Red Ring of Death or RRoD mistakes. This mistake causes the console to hang up and the game freezes at the play. The red lights also indicate different types of errors according to the number of red lights which flashes in the power ring area.

Solution

You can correct the console on your own, without spending much money. All that you need to do is remove the XClamps of the motherboard so that more atmospheric air flows in to the console from the bottom of the console. This is very easy to do and it can be done in merely an hour with the help of normal household tools like screwdrivers.

Microsoft has designed Xbox with its own hardware elements and with its own codes running on chips. This is the first invention in the history of Microsoft for designing its own hardware, even though developing gaming software is a well known field for the Microsoft Corporation. Developing things for the 1st time does have some issue ; because of this reason the hardware designed by the Microsoft Corporation has different kind of mistakes in the console and the RED LIGHT mistake is the most common sort of blunder occurring with the Xbox 360 due to hardware failure.

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