3 red lights!

[NokkonWud]

It's disappointing, but again, unsurprising. Consoles have more parts in smaller spaces than ever before so it's not easy.

I had 4 Sony Playstations, 2 Playstation 2's and 3x Playstation 3's. I had a PSU on my Dreamcast die, Xbox360's GPU popped.

Only consoles that have had any length of gameplay and not died since going CD is my Sega Saturn. (I have grossly underplayed both GameCube and Wii).

[Aboobie]

I liken it to washing machines.

Buy a cheap Indesit over a Bosch and what do you expect...

It's just a shame with consoles we can only buy the cheap mass produced versions.

[Aboobie]

All back,all working, new mother board and 1 months Gold for my trouble. Not too bad really.

[NokkonWud]

Didn't take long. Nice to see MS are quite speedy now. Guess practice made perfect .

[Admiral Huddy]

haha I rang MS Xbox support today after they rang me to say call back.. So I did.. and the bloke had no idea what to do. I Asked him to email the person who contacted me to get he or she to call me.. and this was his response ..

"We don't have email"

haha I said "but you're Microsoft, It's like NASA not having moon buggy"!!

I asked if he had a a pencil..

We don't have access to pencil"

"Are you human?", I asked

"yes I am", he replied

ROFL

no matter what I said, it was off the script in front of him and I got no where.

Idiots!

[phykell]

Originally Posted by NokkonWud

I had 4 Sony Playstations, 2 Playstation 2's and 3x Playstation 3's. I had a PSU on my Dreamcast die, Xbox360's GPU popped.

What are you doing to them?

IMO, one of the major flaws in modern PCs and other hardware as well, is related to the ever-increasing demands made on the heatsinks. The way the hardware manufacturers approach the problem is to increase the efficiency of the fans and the heasinks themselves - the latter usually means increasing the effective surface area and this is best achieved by increasing the density of the vanes. The problem is that the higher the vane density, the more they are susceptible to clogging due to dust, hair and other detritus. Even if there is no visible dust, the vanes themselves become covered in grime, effectively acting to reduce the amount of heat that can be transferred to the air.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Admiral Huddy

haha I said "but you're Microsoft, It's like NASA not having moon buggy"!!

It's not unusual - email is seen as a distraction when they have call volume targets to achieve (especially in the Indian type centres). CPW famously scrapped email at least for their shop staff.

[Haly]

Originally Posted by Mark

CPW famously scrapped email at least for their shop staff.

Did they? Aww that was a brilliant distraction when I worked there

[NokkonWud]

Originally Posted by Admiral Huddy

Stoopid Microsoft

I've always found Microsoft's software and hardware support top notch. Their Xbox Live support however is one of the worst I've EVER used. Maybe you got one of that lot .

[NokkonWud]

Originally Posted by phykell

What are you doing to them?

Arguably over-playing them. The PSone's were shocking, I'm sure most people ended up having to play them upside down. I just got another when this was the case.
My launch PS2 was one of the batch with faulty lasers which scratched discs.
My launch PS3 had a GPU error, my second PS3 stopped reading some discs.
My Dreamcasts PSU went, a common error amongst them.
My Xbox360 had 1RRoD errors frequently, eventually it became permanent when the GPU on it finally died last November.

My PC's PSU blew about 4 weeks ago too .