Errors In Xbox 360

By Nikcey Derwin

There are numerous computer game consoles available in the marketplace for the video 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 2 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

even though Xbox 360 is the leading Playstation game console, they face the big number of console failure. Many analyses have been done to find out the problem and it was discovered the failure is thanks 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 cause of the internal temperature is due to insufficient air flow within the console. Absence of proper design and poor ventilation led to failure of hardware components in the console. Microsoft launched Xbox 360 in a hurry just before Christmas 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 point out the status of the console, when it works well or when it is getting into trouble. The four LED's situated round the power ring area will indicate the status 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 blunders. This blunder causes the console to hang up and the game freezes at the play. The red lights also indicate differing kinds of errors according to the number of red lights which flashes in the power ring area.

Solution

You can repair the console on your own, without spending much money. All you need to do is take away 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 the help of normal household tools like screwdrivers.

Microsoft has designed Xbox with its own hardware parts and with its own codes running on chips. This is the 1st innovation in the history of Microsoft for designing its own hardware, although developing gaming software is a famous field for the Microsoft corporation. Developing things for the first time does have some flaw ; because of this reason the hardware designed by the Microsoft Corporation has different kind of blunders within the console and the RED LIGHT error is the most common sort of mistake occurring with the Xbox 360 due to hardware failure. - 30202

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