Archive for the ‘Xbox 360’ Category
Posted on Jan 20, 2010 12:54:00 PM
Because of excessive heat… your xbox 360 freezes…
…want to know more?
It’s freezing up is a huge warning sign you are about to learn what the red ring of death is and how it effects 360 consoles.
Inside your xbox 360 is a massive amount of heat. And it uses certain mechanisms to cool itself.
Heats sinks move the heat away to prevent over heating the mother board. It needs a way to remain cool and one of the ingenious ways Microsoft uses to keep it cool is by soldering heat sinks to the mother board.
The heat is removed from the system internally with a small fan inside and the heat sinks help reduce temperatures.
The reasons it may be over heating and freezeing are:
- The soldering joints which were used when it was assembled were not the most effective material they could of used.They become worn down through hours of exposure to the heat and slowly loosen. As they become loose, the heats sinks stop removing heat from it and everything starts to freeze up.
- The fan inside stopped working and causing it to over heat.
I can almost bet your xbox 360 freezes after a few hours and it begins to over heat. And you might be heading for some more serious problems if you don’t get it fixed as soon as possible.
Posted on Jan 9, 2010 09:59:10 PM
Xbox 360 is the wonderful gaming device that is popular among people of all ages throughout the world. Since its introduction from the year 2005 during the Christmas time, it gave a tough competition to its competitor, that is, Sony’s Playstation 2. In spite of being a good and compatible console, it has its own flaws. When played for a long time, the Xbox 360 console gets easily overheated. This results in showing 2 red lights error.
The flashing 2 red lights on the power button of the console indicate that your graphics card is damaged for sure. The overheating of the console damages the graphics card and to avoid the further damage, your console malfunctions and shows the pesky 2 red lights blinking on the power ring. This error is common to the Xbox 360 gamers and can be easily fixed by the following two ways.
The first way to fix your favorite Xbox 360
If your console is under warranty, then send your console to the Microsoft. The Microsoft service center will repair the console free of charge for you. The flipside of this matter is that you will be out of your mind with boredom, because the repair will take around a month and until that you are left without gaming.
The second way to fix your Xbox 360
If you are out of warranty, then hand over your console to the third party repair service so that they will fix your Xbox 360 2 red lights error problem
Posted on Jan 4, 2010 07:51:00 PM
There exists some ephemeral quality that separates gamers from the rest of humanity, some thing that makes us, us and them, not us. I’ve never been able to quite put my finger on it, but it is inescapably there.
Today, in hopes of moving closer to that essential quality of gamerosity, we examine part of what makes us tick. In particular, we take a look at what draws different types of gamers to the hobby. Every gamer plays for different reasons, but there are common threads that tie the experience together.
Many gamers are motivated by the challenge a game can present. Success in a game may be governed by any of a wide variety of abilities. A First Person Shooter requires twitch reflexes, a steady hand and the ability to remain calm under pressure. A word puzzle game may require an extensive vocabulary and the ability to rethink the uses of old words, but no measure of speed. A sports simulation might well require an in-depth knowledge of the topic, in addition to arcade skill, but is unlikely to have terribly much concern for linguistic acumen.
The common thread is that all of the games challenge some subset of a player’s abilities. This challenge can be a powerful motivator. The Challenge Motivated gamer is drawn to a game that tests their skills, preferably one that tests them to their limits.
The gamer may also be motivated by the natural improvement that comes from working at peak. They are driven then, not only to excel, but to improve. Challenge Motivated Gamers thrive whenever a game pushes their skill set of choice, but may be disinterested in games that fall too far away from the target.
Competition is a close cousin of challenge. Many gamers are driven by the need to prove they are the best, to be pitted against their fellows and come out on top. Competition minded gamers range from those looking for a challenge in a fair fight to the sort of win-at-all cost leet speaking infants that give us all a bad name.
Competition can be easy to take too far. There is nothing inherently wrong with being driven by competition. To some extent, competition is merely challenge taken to the extreme. It is only when it leads to mistreating your fellow player that it begins to become less a motivation and more an unfortunate personality quirk.
Competition Motivated players thrive on those games where they are pitted against one another with the outcome dictated by skill at playing the game. They will often wane in those environments that either require cooperation, such as many MMORPGs, or in games where skill plays a much smaller role, such as in less sophisticated card or dice games.
Posted on Dec 11, 2009 05:59:16 PM
Whether it is titles, graphics or its brilliant ability to link to other players, LIVE, around the world in real-time, the Xbox 360 wins hands down! Here are my top 10 reasons for you to choose the 360 before any other system.
- The Xbox360 come with awesome wireless connections which I just love. Letting you remain in control from over 30 feet away, I find this feature perfect for those long gaming sessions when you get tired of staying in the same position. It definitely helps my gaming!
- The games list is just awesome – and keeps getting better. Not only are some of the best games ever written available on the 360, but many amazing titles are written exclusively for the Xbox 360.
- The Xbox Live feature is truly revolutionary – you get to play multiplayer games against opponents from all over the world. You can create gamer tags for id, make avatars, create a friends list, set up a rating system, keep track of your achievements and so much more. This alone makes the Xbox 360 the best.
- If you are thinking of upgrading from the Xbox and are worried about the games that you have already bought, worry not. Over 200 Xbox games are compatible with the Xbox 360!
- The Xbox Live feature also lets you tap into an awesome arcades marketplace. Here you can try free games, ultra cheap games and more. The possibilities are endless.
- Xbox 360 graphics just rock! The 360 runs three (three!) 3.2 GH processors that run with a 500MhzATI graphics processor. You want power? Need I say more?
- Remember, the Xbox 360 is more than just gaming. It is also an all-round entertainment system so you can watch movies, download music and play your own CDs as well.
- The Xbox 360 plugs you right into the heart of the game development world. You get the opportunity to download demos, and bonus packs from game developers. This is a great feature that lets you tap into the latest cutting-edge gaming developments.
- The Xbox 360 keeps track of your gaming history – lets you easily recall scores, favorite games, images and so on.
- The Headset feature lets you chat in real time to friends and fellow gamers around the world. Imagine chatting to teammates and opponents while playing? How cool is that?