...gets ringed up
The week since my last post simply flew by...
Apparently my XBox 360 has finally 'snuffed it' as they say as it now has the dreaded Red Ring of Death.
I know why I got it, too - last week I was just playing games a little too long than I should have for a couple of days. It would crash in the middle of the game a few times towards the end of the week and on Sunday when it did just that for five times, I gave up playing on it and moved on to the Wii. Hanging up the power device to circulate air was a way to cool off the device because in the last 16 months, I had it placed in such a cramped area of space but thankfully it still showed signs of function. The console however had just got too warm at the time and I found that out for myself yesterday. All that for games becoming more addactive nowadays!!
Most importantly I didn't blow my cool or overeact or anything like that. An Xbox failing to work all because of a general hardware fault to Microsoft's part is all old news to me as I was aware of the red ring from the very beginning. I immediately figured that the only solution is to fix it myself, with help from an online guide for a small price from my wallet. Might as well, because I don't have the time to do it at this minute (loads of stuff to do first) and I will spend one whole day in the easter holidays having a look at it. I'm not much of an engineer but I think I wil have fun dismantling the console and put it back together.
Don't really need to tell you what type of XBox 360 console I own; the 120GB Elite works extremely well otherwise.
Still, at least I never had one of these when I was young:
( language warning... 'cause he IS the AVGN after all! XD ) SING ALONG TO THE THEME SONG IF YOU KNOW THE WORDS!
Apparently my XBox 360 has finally 'snuffed it' as they say as it now has the dreaded Red Ring of Death.
I know why I got it, too - last week I was just playing games a little too long than I should have for a couple of days. It would crash in the middle of the game a few times towards the end of the week and on Sunday when it did just that for five times, I gave up playing on it and moved on to the Wii. Hanging up the power device to circulate air was a way to cool off the device because in the last 16 months, I had it placed in such a cramped area of space but thankfully it still showed signs of function. The console however had just got too warm at the time and I found that out for myself yesterday. All that for games becoming more addactive nowadays!!
Most importantly I didn't blow my cool or overeact or anything like that. An Xbox failing to work all because of a general hardware fault to Microsoft's part is all old news to me as I was aware of the red ring from the very beginning. I immediately figured that the only solution is to fix it myself, with help from an online guide for a small price from my wallet. Might as well, because I don't have the time to do it at this minute (loads of stuff to do first) and I will spend one whole day in the easter holidays having a look at it. I'm not much of an engineer but I think I wil have fun dismantling the console and put it back together.
Don't really need to tell you what type of XBox 360 console I own; the 120GB Elite works extremely well otherwise.
Still, at least I never had one of these when I was young:
Click to view( language warning... 'cause he IS the AVGN after all! XD ) SING ALONG TO THE THEME SONG IF YOU KNOW THE WORDS!