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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Fridge => Topic started by: Threehorn on January 21, 2008, 09:03:17 AM

Title: Surge and cut
Post by: Threehorn on January 21, 2008, 09:03:17 AM: In the last few days things been going crazy for me... one was thursday a power surge followed by a power cut which in turn damaged my Pen Drive till it now fried and my Xbox 360 unable to play games on it for long because of it slicing my discs up with it laser and on top of that having a infection in my big toe...

So I am having fun at the moment with bad tiny things happening lol. Well thats sods law for ya. and that came in 3s as well. three bad things happening in a chain. Oh well... I'll get over it.
Title: Surge and cut
Post by: landbeforetimelover on January 21, 2008, 12:28:44 PM: Ya know, that's like the billionth time I've heard of someone's xbox and their flash drive being ruined when they plugged in a flash drive. I'm beginning to think the xbox 360 has a defect.........
Title: Surge and cut
Post by: Flathead770 on January 21, 2008, 01:51:24 PM: Quote
I'm beginning to think the xbox 360 has a defect.........
Thats probably from the rushed launch, well at least it was. I don't know Microsoft's excuse now. My brothers been lucky, his hasn't shown the "red ring of death" yet, and hes had it almost since it launched. There have been people that are on their fifth Xbox 360 now because they screw up that much.

Sorry to here that Threehorn. At least only your 360 broke so you can still game on your Wii or DS. :lol
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Post by: Kor on January 21, 2008, 03:09:45 PM: I've heard an online friend who's 360 failed, and one of the podcasts I listen to had someone who's on his 3rd or 4th one I think he said. I think none of the folks on pobdasts I mention owning a 360 have their original one if they'd owned it for more then maybe 6 months.
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Post by: lbt/cty_lover on January 21, 2008, 03:20:43 PM: I had heard that the XBOX 360 had flaws in it. I didn't know what the flaws were.

In fact, the only gaming console that I didn't hear any flaws about is the Wii. The PS3 has been overheating a lot. The XBOX has these flaws. Does anybody know anything about the Wii?
Title: Surge and cut
Post by: landbeforetimelover on January 21, 2008, 04:13:39 PM: All I know is that microsoft has been taking a lot of losses these past few years. Their newest gaming system has all these flaws and is just crap and their newest operating system (windows vista) is making people and businesses alike head for the hills. -_-
Title: Surge and cut
Post by: Threehorn on January 21, 2008, 08:26:59 PM: My 360 was all fine and normal till after the power surge and power cut on Thursday. A nearby power plant that brings power to Harlow was hit by Lightning on that day and in the evening we had a power cut so both caused the problem to my 360. It started playing up a day later.

So it not faulty it just sods law with the lightning storm on Thursday. The pendrive was in my computer when it was on when the surge happened, luckly my PC wasn't damaged and only my USB was. But luckly 98% of the data was already backed up so no real lose and my 360 hardrive is fine as well it just the console that got affected by these events on thursday.
Title: Surge and cut
Post by: lbt/cty_lover on January 21, 2008, 08:29:23 PM: Quote from: landbeforetimelover,Jan 21 2008 on 03:13 PM
All I know is that microsoft has been taking a lot of losses these past few years. Their newest gaming system has all these flaws and is just crap and their newest operating system (windows vista) is making people and businesses alike head for the hills. -_-
I knew this. Except for XBOX 360 stuff. Vista is slow on any computer not designed for high processing power. This is the extent of my knowledge about Vista. I hate microsoft for stealing Dashboard from Apple.
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Post by: Kor on January 22, 2008, 01:28:13 AM: It seems microsoft is very prone to sending stuff out before it's finished and the kinks worked out. Some others are too.
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Post by: Flathead770 on January 22, 2008, 02:26:00 AM: Quote
Does anybody know anything about the Wii?
The only flaw i know is the people letting go of there Wii remote and breaking a TV :lol . Nintendo has always been pretty reliable with there products. I've heard stories of people's NESes still working after 20 years. There is even an original gameboy that survived through a war and still works! Its on display in the Nintendo World Store in New York City.
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Post by: Kor on January 22, 2008, 03:26:06 AM: I heard that happening to many folks with their wii remotes.
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Post by: Littlefoot1616 on January 22, 2008, 07:12:57 AM: I've heard a few stories about Wiis apparently crashing and holding game discs (discs stuck inside) but this is normally due to power surges or electrical problems rather than an issue with the console itself.

The incidents reported with the Wii remotes no one can blame the company for those occurances. The Remotes were created with a strap for a reason yet people still ignore the warnings and fling them like missiles into their TV :lol Check out youtube for details :P:
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Post by: Flathead770 on January 23, 2008, 02:07:37 AM: lol i've seen my fair share of videos thank you :lol . People serving in Wii tennis as hard as they can and let go :lol :lol .