How to fix your crashing XBox 360

The pattern is all too familiar: New console comes out, people queue over night to get hold of one, supply problems are reported, and a few days later the hype is over and people are complaining that there are crashes and that the new machine isn't quite as wonderful as the hype suggested.

For the XBox 360 one of the major problems reported was frequent crashes, with different error messages and in different games. But the mysterious problem seems to be related to the power supply, which overheats, not to the console itself. And The Inquirer reports that one gamer has found out how to fix the XBox 360 crash: Use a piece of string to lift up the power supply, so it gets cooled from all sides. All sides? You mean like 360°? Now I understand where the 360 in the console's name comes from! :)

XBox 360° cooling for the win!

Fortunately I didn't buy one. Which has nothing to do with the quality of the console, but everything to do with the initial line-up of games. Of the 18 XBox 360 games currently available, 11 are sports titles, and the rest are shooters and other forms of action games. Number of role-playing games or strategy games: Zero.
- posted by Tobold @ 3:43 PM Permanent Link