{"id":71,"date":"2007-05-02T09:26:18","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T14:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/02\/xbox-360-so-much-love-so-much-hate"},"modified":"2007-05-02T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T14:26:18","slug":"xbox-360-so-much-love-so-much-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"XBox 360 – so much love, so much hate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It happened *again*.\u00a0 Our XBox 360 died with the ring of 3 red lights.\u00a0 This is the second time in six months this has happened.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this time it was out of warranty, so I’m out $139 to get it repaired.<\/div>\n
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We use the XBox 360 pretty much every day.\u00a0 Not so much as a game machine, but as a media center extender.\u00a0 Our primary PVR is an HP Media Center equipped PC.\u00a0 When we watch TV in the living room, we use the XBox 360 as an extender for it.\u00a0 Due to this hardware failure, we’re going to have to use another extender while the 360 is off getting repaired.<\/div>\n
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Amazingly, when going through the process of getting the RMA, I was told that I was doing something wrong by plugging in the 360 into a UPS! The friendly tech support lady said that when you plug into a UPS, the 360 can not get enough power to drive the fans fast enough.\u00a0 Why would they say this?\u00a0 In the real world, you plug your valuable electronics into a UPS, especially when you live in the lightning capital of the world!\u00a0 It’s pretty funny as I have my development workstation plugged into a UPS.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure it draws a lot more power than a 360 does, and yet, it continues to run just fine.<\/div>\n
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Word is that later this year, a new revision of the 360 will be out.\u00a0 It will feature a smaller die processor, which should help reduce heat.\u00a0 If our 360 dies again after the renewed warranty expires (we get another year for paying for the repair), we’ll probably get a new revision model. If it isn’t out after that, I’m not sure we’ll get another one or repair this one if it breaks again.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It happened *again*.\u00a0 Our XBox 360 died with the ring of 3 red lights.\u00a0 This is the second time in six months this has happened.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this time it was out of warranty, so I’m out $139 to get it repaired. \u00a0 We use the XBox 360 pretty much every day.\u00a0 Not so much as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}