Friday, October 23, 2009

Errors Due To Overheating

By Nikcey Derwin

There are many computer game consoles available in the marketplace for the Playstation game lovers. But many of them are not branded. The number 1 computer games consoles are Xbox, Playboy, 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 2.

Issue with Xbox 360

even though Xbox 360 is the premiere computer game console, they face the huge number of console failure. Many analyses have been done to find out the problem 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. Absence of proper design and poor ventilation led on 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 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 lower the heat and cool down the processors. But due to wrong 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 superbly or when it gets 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 often known as Red Ring of Death or RRoD errors. This mistake 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 amount 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 remove 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 just an hour with aid from normal household tools like screwdrivers.

Microsoft has designed Xbox with its own hardware components and with its own codes running on chips. This is the 1st innovation in the history of Microsoft for designing its own hardware, even though developing gaming software is a widely known field for the Microsoft corporation. Developing things for the first time does have some issue ; because of this reason the hardware designed by the Microsoft Corporation has different kind of errors 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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