Monday, May 11, 2009

Fix Xbox

Dunno if I had mentioned earlier, but my Xbox 360 had died. It was dead for over a month almost. I was forced, FORCED I SAY, to play wii again. Crap I don't know what I saw in that system. Oh well I think I've been spoiled with next gen graphics. So anyhow I was playing Resident Evil 5 one day when all of a sudden a whole pile of black pixels appeared on the screen. I rebooted the xbox and it seemed to go away but then it came up again so I decided to rest it.

Week later I was playing left 4 dead online with Pancho when it did the sama MADARASS but then this time when I tried to reboot, I got the dreaded red rings! Eventually an error message would appear on the screen and when I googled the error code it seemed to be related to overheating. CRAP! I have warranty but what good is that shit when you live in Belize.

I didn't have the time or the patience to deal with that shit. I was close to buying a new system when I just decided what the hey, lets open this mofo. A quick clean of the heat sinks and reapplication of silver arctic thermal paste did the trick. Boo and Microsoft for their shabby designs! Crap these systems are failing like computers! Why can't they make a Nintendo sturdy console. You never heard of the Super NES crashing! did ya!?