Red ring of death prevention?

[sj420]

Originally Posted by paintba||er

Eh, I'm not going to void the warranty. And the air duster worked pretty good on my PC. I could spray it out before opening the case and there would be very little dust left. There would be a bit stuck behind the drives where the air didn't reach, but that's to be expected.

No duh, thats what I am talking about.

That crap gets stuck behind the metal plates where the mobo sits, it sits back there and no air flow can get back there any longer and it proceeds to pack together and start cooking that plate. I have seen PC's from other houses where the dust was literally partly burned to the metal.

[Gregtheman10]

Originally Posted by sj420

Until it finally has cooked the f-in heatsink off the GPU and it won't go back on.

Have fun with your RROD.

Ok I'll be waiting for it, and like Paint said it's under a warranty so i can just send it in.

[JLK]

Well easier said than done my friend

[Gregtheman10]

yea i know but i'm saying you can send it in and get a new one if it breaks down, you would just have to wait a few weeks..which would be really hard lol

[TTR Dr Payne]

you dont actually have to wait for it to break, you can simply tell them its broken, send in your non-broken console and chances are there wont be an issue.

As I've referred to many times already on this site, Matt(Stealthy Nuck) sent his console in for repair and said it had the RROD when it really didnt. He got a console back with no questions asked.

[Alcieta]

If the red ring of death is mainly an issue of overheating... will your 360 last longer if you only play it for two hours a day? xD

[Jakey_TheSnake]

Originally Posted by paintba||er

Wouldn't more surface area be better? Because the 360 is going to be hotter than whatever it is sitting on and if there was more surface area then more heat would be conducted out of it to the table or whatever it is sitting on...

Not quite sure what point you're arguing, but less surface in contact with something (i.e. more surface in air will be better). Anything that will increase surface area (in contact with air) to volume ratio (volume stays the same in this case though) is good for heat loss.

Aka Elephants, which have huge wrinkly folds of skin and huge ears LoL, and live in hot climates.

blah blah blah BIOLOGY blah blah blah.

[Imonati]

There is absouletly faukin nout you can do about it .

Your going to get it.

[360 kingz]

Well i heard from some guy in some fuakin random forum thats if you change your harddrive every year it prevents the 360 from getting [the red ring of fire] but the think am not sure i havent tried my self but ithnk it would because the harddrive is whats causes the [ring of deth] but some other guy said it is true if you change your hard drive every year your 360 will be safe.


WHAT DO YOU PPL THINK IS IT TRUE OR IS IT JUST ONE OF THOSE IDIOTIC FIBS.

[TTR Dr Payne]

thats obviously completely false because your Hard Drive has absolutely nothing to do with the RROD at all. The error you get with a Hard Drive failure is 1 Red Light of Death. The RROD is caused by some internal hardware failure and has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with the external Hard drive.

[360 kingz]

i told i didint know is it true or not.

[paintba||er]

But you did say that the HDD is what causes the RRoD, which is totally wrong. And you probably just made up that whole thing rather than somebody telling you, because you're a dillweed.

[Imonati]

LOOL everything paint post's in response to 360 kingz makes me atchualy Laugh Out Loud i dont no why

just the words you use

Dillweed ! i'm keeping that one,