Ошибка bad string xbox 360

Right, an Open Source power supply wouldn’t have these problems.

Wouldn’t it be easier and more reliable to buy a power supply that functions without overheating? As long as it provides the correct voltage and is rated at the correct number of amps, there’s nothing special about a given power supply.

This absurd situation is the direct result of buying a sysphisticated piece of electronic hardware from a software company. And not just a software company, from a huge software monopoly.

This kind of thing, and hell, this precise situation, would never happen in a company that is run by engineers. Real engineers, not software engineers or sanitation engineers. People who have been rigorous trained in the behavior of physical materials when acted upon by systematic application of an energy

Cast:
Adrian Wapcaplet: John Cleese
Mr. Simpson: Eric Idle

Adrian Wapcaplet: Aah, come in, come in, Mr….Simpson. Aaah, welcome to Mousebat, Follicle, Goosecreature, Ampersand,
Spong, Wapcaplet, Looseliver, Vendetta and Prang!
Mr. Simpson: Thank you.
Adrian Wapcaplet: Do sit down—my name’s Wapcaplet, Adrian Wapcaplet…
Mr. Simpson: how’d’y’do.
Wapcaplet: Now, Mr. Simpson… Simpson, Simpson… French, is it?
Mr. Simpson: No.
Adrian Wapcaplet: Aah. Now, I understand you want us to advertise your washing powder.
Mr. Simpson: String.
Adrian Wapcaplet: String, washing powder, what’s the difference. We can sell *anything*.
Mr. Simpson: Good. Well I have this large quantity of string, a hundred and twenty-two thousand *miles* of it to be exact,
which I inherited, and I thought if I advertised it—
Adrian Wapcaplet: Of course! A national campaign. Useful stuff, string, no trouble there.
Mr. Simpson: Ah, but there’s a snag, you see. Due to bad planning, the hundred and twenty-two thousand miles is in three
inch lengths. So it’s not very useful.
Adrian Wapcaplet: Well, that’s our selling point! «SIMPSON’S INDIVIDUAL STRINGETTES!»
Mr. Simpson: What?
Adrian Wapcaplet: «THE NOW STRING! READY CUT, EASY TO HANDLE, SIMPSON’S INDIVIDUAL EMPEROR
STRINGETTES — JUST THE RIGHT LENGTH!»
Mr. Simpson: For what?
Adrian Wapcaplet: Uuuh…»A MILLION HOUSEHOLD USES!»

Mr. Simpson: Such as?
Adrian Wapcaplet: Uhmm…Tying up very small parcels, attatching notes to pigeons’ legs, uh, destroying household pests…
Mr. Simpson: Destroying household pests?! How?
Adrian Wapcaplet: Well, if they’re bigger than a mouse, you can strangle them with it, and if they’re smaller than, you flog
them to death with it!
Mr. Simpson: Well *surely*!….
Adrian Wapcaplet: «DESTROY NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF KNOWN HOUSEHOLD PESTS WITH PRE-SLICED,
RUSTPROOF, EASY-TO-HANDLE, LOW CALORIE SIMPSON’S INDIVIDUAL EMPEROR STRINGETTES, FREE
FROM ARTIFICIAL COLORING, AS USED IN HOSPITALS!»
Mr. Simpson: ‘Ospitals!?!?!?!!?
Adrian Wapcaplet: Have you ever in a Hospital where they didn’t have string?
Mr. Simpson: No, but it’s only *string*!
Adrian Wapcaplet: ONLY STRING?! It’s everything! It’s…it’s waterproof!
Mr. Simpson: No, it isn’t!
Adrian Wapcaplet: All right, it’s water resistant then!
Mr. Simpson: It, isn’t!
Adrian Wapcaplet: All right, it’s water absorbent! It’s…Super Absorbent String! «ABSORB WATER TODAY WITH
SIMPSON’S INDIVIDUAL WATER ABSORB-A-TEX STRINGETTES! AWAY WITH FLOODS!»
Mr. Simpson: You just said it was waterproof!
Adrian Wapcaplet: «AWAY WITH THE DULL DRUDGERY OF WORKADAY TIDAL WAVES! USE SIMPSON’S
INDIVIDUAL FLOOD PREVENTERS!»
Mr. Simpson: You’re mad!
Adrian Wapcaplet: Shut up, shut up, shut up! Sex, sex sex, must get sex into it. Wait, I see a television commercial — There’s

this nude woman in a bath holding a bit of your string. That’s great, great, but we need a doctor, got to have a medical opinion.
There’s a nude woman in a bath with a doctor—that’s too sexy. Put an archbishop there watching them, that’ll take the curse
off it. Now, we need children and animals. There’s two kids admiring the string, and a dog admiring the archbishop who’s
blessing the string. Uhh…international flavor’s missing…make the archbishop Greek Orthodox. Why not Archbishop
Macarios? No, no, he’s dead… never mind, we’ll get his brother, it’ll be cheaper… So there’s archbishop Macarios, his brother
and a doctor in the bath with this nude woman, two doctors and a dog….

Now, I wonder…

Why didn’t they do more in-depth burn-in tests of these?

I mean, sure, defects are common in manufacturing, but something as simple to detect as overheating?
With a unit of this cost, one would think that their engineering team would have, at the very least, warned that overheating ‘may’ be an issue.

That’s not a problem, it’s Microsoft’s new Prometheus(TM) special effects technology!

It sounds like this one guy (is this the same one we heard about days ago?) just doesn’t know how to properly ventilate electronics in the first place. Is he sticking it in some closed-off cabinet sitting between a cable box and a receiver or something?

And ‘fixing it with string’? Sounds more like ‘fixing it by allowing it to get some AIR’…

You should contact the legal firm of Spiro Moss Barness, etc… They are one of many firms united in a class action lawsuit about the Thompson DVD drives that were used in the Xbox. Microsoft seem to have been aware of the lack of quality in these drives as later models used different manufacturers. Despite this, if you talk to their customer service reps, they continue to ask you if your discs are dirty despite the fact you tell them you just bought the damn game.

I don’t give a rat’s ass about Sony’s problems. I’m here to ask about the awful consumer experience I had with my original Xbox and what exactly is the truth about this new product. Here are links that show what a known issue those drives were.

http://sentientcreations.com/xboxIssues/problem.ph p

[sentientcreations.com]

http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Repairs/xbox_dvd_repair .htm

[llamma.com]

Now there’s an entire market based upon replacing your Xbox’s DVD drive with a better one such as Samsung.

Microsoft’s support solution: clean the disc. No matter how many times you tell them the disc is brand new, they say it’s a dirty disc.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; en-us;8167

[microsoft.com]

Then there was the power supply issue. A recall in which power cords were issued to cover up shoddy circuitry that could and did cause house fires. Mostly due to bad soldering. In the recall, older Xboxes were given power cords with breakers, so in the event of a short, you may burn out your Xbox but at least your house won’t burn down.

http://s4.invisionfree.com/Popular_Technology/ar/t 215.htm

[invisionfree.com]

So a few weeks ago we started to see Xbox 360s in demo retail models showing the dreaded Error 74. Photograph of it here.

http://joystiq.com/entry/1234000480066825/ [joystiq.com]

Now we have reports of crashes that yes, are online and could be from a vocal minority, but I have never heard of or owned a console that crashes the way photographs show us is happening to the 360 — and let’s remember the people complaining about it are the ones who braved the cold and the nuisance of picking one up.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/xbox-360/hours-old-an d-pgr3-crashing-like-mad-138978.php

[kotaku.com]

Now apparently there is a fix in the form of suspending the power supply. People are finding it’s working. Ergo, the power supply is defective. Just like the one on the original Xbox which was RECALLED.

Whatever marketing spiel Microsoft want to give, I want for them to answer one thing. What exactly is Error 74 and Error 79 — what does it mean is happening to the box. They have refused, as they did with the Thompson DVD drive, to let us know what is going wrong. Even if it isolated. Does it bode poorly for the future? Why is there a SPECIFIC error message already in the box’s OS that is happening to people?

Now we know for certain that the machine is not only prone to overheating, there is an inbuilt error message related to it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907533/ [microsoft.com]

And did you hear about how the tech support person told that guy to «wipe his video cables with a soft cloth»? Too rich.

Oh, and keep it out of the carpet..

Indeed. How many of these do you suppose are stuffed behind the entertainment center with the rest of the wall warts?

Dear Customer,

We have decided to deny your warranty request to replace the external power supply and deny your request for a complimentary Microsoft XPCool Strings(tm).

The reason for this is that you have not used your unit according to the specifications.

As per the instruction manual included in MS Word format on the XBox 360’s hard drive, it clearly states in section 361.27.5a(iii) the following:

«As an additional winter bonus, we have provided you with a power supply that doubles as a personal block heater, this block heater must be set up by suspending over the cardboard box provided with the XBox360. Failure to do so can cause system instability or fire.

If your friend or family member has thrown away this box, please purchase an additional usage license for that friend or family member as you are clearly in violation of the EULA (as this the console is provided with a single user license); we will provide you with an extra box for power supply suspension along with the additional license upon request»

There’s a good possibility of that; though in winter people in cold climates tend to have the heat on. If the heat vent is close to the power supply…

The problem seems more to do with air flow though. People putting the supply on a shag carpet or no doubt going to have more heat problems than people who place the supply on it’s side up on a table. The supply probably should have used some extra heatsinks though.

Still I am curious as to the ratio of people having problems in warmer clients to those in co

My guess is that everything was tested on a nice hard bench. When you stick the PSU on a carpet the inherent fluffyness of the carpet blocks the ventilation and causes it to overheat.

And never conducted real testing, because they relied on the QA from their power supply vendor.

The main reasons for the prevalence of external power supplies or «wall warts» are that they shift regulatory compliance (UL, CSA, TUV, or whatnot) onto a third party (the power supply vendor), and enable the same basic product to be sold worldwide with different external supplies provided to accomodate local variations in line voltage/frequency/receptacle type.

…A well designed…

Sorry, pal. This is a Microsoft product.

Microsoft Co., Ltd.
Made in China.

It could easily have been a management problem too… As frickin’ huge as the thing is, it’s possible it was even larger during development, and the management word came down «the PSU must be smaller! Otherwise the japanese won’t buy it. Consequences be damned!», and it turns out this was the smallest they could get it.

and to think, with my Gamecube I just turn it on

place the power supply in a zip-lock baggie that was obviously open at the top to allow the cables to go out, but then the lower half was submerged in a pot of water.

Darwinizing xbox fanboys/girls is not the solution.

BURNS:
Could you explain your model, young man?

GRIMES:
What’s to explain? He’s an idiot!

LENNY:
Pipe down!

HOMER:
Well basically, I just copied the plant we have now.

BURNS:
Mm-hmm.

HOMER:
Then, I added some fins to lower wind resistance. (pointing) And this racing stripe here I feel is pretty sharp.

I give you a 10 on misdirected anger, and a 0 on content…ie a great slashdot post!

Goddamn you Micro$oft users love getting raped!

I know you’re a troll and you don’t really deserve an answer, but…

Actually it’s not Microsoft users who love getting raped, it’s early adopters. And a damn good thing too: without early adopters, we patient and reasonable consumers wouldn’t get good products with all the design kinks worked out.

Holy shit I hope you get modded up. That was the first thing I thought when I read that article. This is insane! In what world is this acceptable?! It’s not just computers anymore. It’s game consoles and cars now, too.

For those not familiar with BMW’s iDrive. [e90post.com]

Just today, I started the car and again I coudn’t get past the accept «screen». The iDrive crashes at that screen all the time anymore. I’ve just been doing the reboot sequence that I mentioned above to reset it.

People are rebooting thier fuc