Thursday, October 22, 2009

Errors Due To Overheating

By Nikcey Derwin

There are numerous video game consoles available in the marketplace for the video game lovers. But many of them are not branded. The leading Nintendo games consoles are Xbox, trustafarian, PlayStation, Wii, etc . Xbox and PlayStation are the top competitors in the computer 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

although Xbox 360 is the number 1 computer game console, they face the large number of console failure. Many analyses have been done to find out the problem and it was found that the failure is because of 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 insufficient air flow within the console. Lack of proper design and poor ventilation led straight to failure of hardware components in the console. Microsoft launched Xbox 360 in a hurry just before Xmas to get more sales. This is the real 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 lower the heat and cool down the processors. But due to improper arrangement of the X clamps, the heat sinks fail to work. Xbox have the special feature to point out the status of the console, when it works well or when it becomes into trouble. The four LED's situated round 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 errors. This error causes the console to hang up and the game freezes at the play. The red lights also indicate differing types of mistakes according to the number of red lights which flashes in the power ring area.

Solution

You can fix the console on your own, without spending much money. All that you need to do is take away the XClamps of the motherboard so that more atmospheric air flows in to the console from the bottom of the console. This is so easy to do and it can be done in simply an hour with assistance from 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 1st invention in the history of Microsoft for coming up with its own hardware, although developing gaming software is a famous field for the Microsoft concern. Developing things for the 1st time does have some flaw ; because of this reason the hardware designed by the Microsoft Corporation has different sort of blunders within the console and the RED LIGHT blunder is the most common kind of error occurring with the Xbox 360 due to hardware failure.

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