kinect x box 360

david_cougar

hi lot of this on the web... that it brings on the RROD anyone had any experience

DCFC79

I havent but ive had experience of rrod on the xbox on its own, if it goes rrod return it to the retailer for a swap f they provide that or organise a free repair from ms

boxst

That hasn't happened with me, however the xbox definitely runs hotter with Kinect plugged in so it wouldn't suprise me that the rate of failure increases.

Steve

iwb100

So the RROD has so far been caused by "dashboard updates", "Call of Duty Modern Warfare", "Gears of War" and now "kinect".

It is utter nonsense. If anything kinect causes people to use their xbox more and therefore they are more likely to "trigger" the RROD. If you have a newer Xbox RROD is far far less likely.

The RROD is usually caused by repeated heating and cooling cycles and this means the soldering between the GPU chip and the motherboard shrinks, contracts, shrinks, contracts, until eventually it cracks and RROD. So repeated on off, on off. Of course if the unit gets hotter then this increases the likelihood of this happening.

I haven't noticed my 2 year old xbox get hotter with kinect, in fact without any "fact" I'd guess that most kinect games use less processing grunt than the 3d shooters, so I can see no argument for it running any hotter.

I think there are a lot of old wives tales re RROD, it is caused by the heating and cooling cycle and seems to be more or less fixed in later versions (of course RROD can be symptematic of other problems and you are always going to have this issue with chips in any device from time to time irrespective of build quality!).

Coveredinbees!!!!

I thought they had 'fixed' the rrod and were no longering giving a 3 year warranty on the newer consoles?

iwb100

Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

I thought they had 'fixed' the rrod and were no longering giving a 3 year warranty on the newer consoles?

They have but it doesn't mean "it can't occur". All electronic products are potentially prone to heating/cooling related faults. Depends how they are used etc. For example you sit a laptop on a carpet or a bed repeatedly and do some processor intensive tasks and in some cases that laptop will die!

All electronic devices have the potential to break even the new Xboxes.

david_cougar

thanks have googgled and think i will wait...