Favorite games include: most strategy games, but honestly I'll try anything, so I end up with a nice mix of games, like Harvest Moon, Animal Crossing, Halo 2, Civilizations 4, WarCraft 2 (TWO, not 3, and Don't even talk to me about W.O.W. or you shall die a horrible death) and many many others.
Avg Weekly GameTime: 30+ hours
I play console and PC games, but sadly havn't gotten around to getting an XBox360, or a PS3.
now that the IMPOTANT stuff is out of the way xD I'm a 19 yr old Female, living in a Hell Hole state that I can't wait to get out of and go back home (to Missouri), this Hell Hole goes by the Name of Houston, Tx. But don't be fooled by the English name it has, this city was forged in the fires of Mt. Doom by Sauron himself.
I'm pretty much your avg. nerd.. except on a couple traits, but we don't need to get into those.. and to prove it, I have (havn't played her in a long while though) a lvl 74 Silvan/Drow (I can give you the very... interesting back story to that if you understand why that's ridiculous) xD
Potius mori quam foedari
(Rather to die than to be dishonoured)
oh ya...
me xD
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Q: Have you identified a root cause that can lead to failure?
A: There is not a single issue that we can point to as being a problem. We test the product extensively, including accelerated life testing, but the nature of the console itself is very complex, as it’s a consumer electronic product that contains more than 1,700 different components and 500 million transistors.
There are a variety of scenarios that can cause a general hardware failure. Only the indicator (the three flashing red lights) is always the same.
Listen real close to your air vent at 4:44:44 am and you can hear them chanting R. R. O. D.
According to the German computer magazine c't the main reason for the problems is that the wrong type of lead free solder was used, a type that when exposed to elevated temperatures for a long time becomes brittle and can develop hair-line cracks that are almost irreparable."
Help any?
Basically a connection between the motherboard, cpu and gpu breaks, from bad solder.
Basically, they're duct-taping the issue. It won't solve the problems but it will cut down on the chances of it happening and it stops them having to do a full redesign on their entire box to get all the tolerances correct.
It really is, as they themselves say, not down to any particular component but instead the combination lots of components, hence no easy fix.
I was going to go into a whole Batman/Joker make-up analogy but, well, you get the picture.
That's why I never play marathon sessions on my 360. I don't trust it, and it started locking up when I played Forza 2 for several hours
5 days = 12 hours? I think. Maybe 15 hours.
But of course I didn't play that long in one session. I had to pause it and leave it on overnight. It also didn't help that you had to babysit the game because your health constantly ran down.
It also wasn't very nice when I died at 4 days and 20 hours my first attempt.
So the system was probably on for 2 weeks straight. It was awesome.