Saturday, October 24, 2009

Errors Due To Overheating

By Nikcey Derwin

There are numerous Playstation game consoles available in the market for the Nintendo game lovers. But a lot of them are not branded. The leading Nintendo games consoles are Xbox, rich kid, PlayStation, Wii, etc . Xbox and PlayStation are the top competitors in the video game industry. Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation two hit the market at the same time. Microsoft launched Xbox 360 in late 2005 and just before that ; Sony launched its PlayStation 2.

Difficulty with Xbox 360

although Xbox 360 is the number 1 video game console, they face the big number of console failure. Many analyses have been done to find out the issue and it was found 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. Lack of proper design and poor ventilation led 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 main 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 reduce 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 status of the console, when it works superbly or when it is getting into difficulty. The four LED's situated round the power ring area will indicate the standing of the console. Removing the X clamps will solve the red light problem. The overheating mistake will be indicated by the red lights. This is sometimes known as Red Ring of Death or RRoD mistakes. This blunder causes the console to hang up and the game freezes at the play. The red lights also indicate differing types of blunders according to the amount 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 base of the console. This is so easy to do and it can be done in just 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 first creativity 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 failing ; 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 typical kind of error occurring with the Xbox 360 due to hardware failure.

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