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Grinding noise of DEATH
« on: November 25, 2013, 08:53:30 PM »
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Re: Grinding noise of DEATH
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2013, 09:14:57 PM »
Xboned.
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Re: Grinding noise of DEATH
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2013, 09:40:28 PM »
To be expected.
Since no percentage is mentioned, this could be a minor problem.
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Re: Grinding noise of DEATH
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2013, 02:27:49 AM »
PS2, Wii, ps3, xb360,.... all had teething problems (probably others too, these are just the ones I remember).
Its hardly surprising that as the machines get more complicated these things happen.
Time will tell how serious an issue it is.
PS4 has had issues as well, but sysadmins OCD in regards to MS seems to let that one go :)
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Re: Grinding noise of DEATH
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2013, 02:41:08 AM »
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Its hardly surprising that as the machines get more complicated these things happen.

I'm not sure that the drive is more complicated, but it's a mechanical part and it could have been damaged in transit. They are nowhere near the level of returns that Sinclair had with the spectrum in the 80's.
 
commodore shipped known bad computers to meet demand, knowing that instead of buying a competitors product that was in stock the customer would have a broken computer under the Christmas tree. They hoped that they'd have manufactured enough working ones before people demanded a refund.
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Re: Grinding noise of DEATH
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2013, 02:48:12 AM »
Quote from: fishy_fiz;753435
PS2, Wii, ps3, xb360,.... all had teething problems (probably others too, these are just the ones I remember).
Its hardly surprising that as the machines get more complicated these things happen.
Time will tell how serious an issue it is.
PS4 has had issues as well, but sysadmins OCD in regards to MS seems to let that one go :)


I'm glad you mentioned 360, the sheer number of butt sniffing Microsoft fanboy losers who bought 3 or more replacement consoles just proves NOTHING will prevent the sale of crap products to loser fanboys :)

The original 360 was the nastiest console (build quality) I have ever used in my life, worse even than the CD32 (although not quite as ugly as a CD32...just lol). If mine had RROD'd I would have never replaced the console...but then I don't fondle myself staring at vintage Bill Gates in his NHS glasses and Walmart shirt type posters like most 360 fanatics who bought multiple consoles after each one melted like a dodgy Wizard of Oz reenactment
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Re: Grinding noise of DEATH
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2013, 01:11:01 PM »
Latest thing is that the XBox One's mooted media integration and HDMI passthrough and cleverness doesn't work* when the input signal is 50Hz.

Like in most of the world.

* it introduces juddering and possibly skips frames due to the timing difference, and there are colour changes on top. Some people won't notice, others will be driven nuts.
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Re: Grinding noise of DEATH
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2013, 01:18:09 PM »
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I'm not sure that the drive is more complicated, but it's a mechanical part and it could have been damaged in transit. They are nowhere near the level of returns that Sinclair had with the spectrum in the 80's.
 
commodore shipped known bad computers to meet demand, knowing that instead of buying a competitors product that was in stock the customer would have a broken computer under the Christmas tree. They hoped that they'd have manufactured enough working ones before people demanded a refund.



I worked in a small repair shop in that time frame. There were curious things in customer units that we repaired, but all that was confirmed later. In the summer of '85 we had trouble getting parts to keep up with a nasty lightning storm season so we bought several brand new C-64s off the shelf to cannibalize. We had to laugh when we found the boards were all very obviously refurbished and slapped in new cases.
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Re: Grinding noise of DEATH
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2013, 03:57:29 PM »
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