Q. I have the orignal xbox 360. Its is frezzwing up an it occasional has the red ring with the three lights. I have tried every thing the towel trick which worked a day and thats it. My cheap parents refuse to let me ask my grandpa for a ps3 and said i must wait for one. I wanna play the video games now. But half way through when im playing a game it freezes up any tips?
A. red rings are only hardware faults and are fixable, the 3 red rings mean your xbox could be generating way too much heat (most common issue).
Inside the xbox you have the main components covered up by 'heat syncs' these take away the heat that is generated, underneath the heat syncs you have whats called 'thermal paste' which transfers the heat safely to the heat syncs. in your case the paste has probably gone rock solid. You need to replace the paste, remove it with an alcohol based substance and use brand new thermal paste to replace it.
I've seen someone get 2x cotton buds and stick them in the fans to prevent them from cooling, they left it for 5 minutes and it worked again, i'm not sure if it just melts the thermal paste back or it does something to the motherboard.
if your warranty is void the least you could do is try but understand most hardware faults are fixable. opening the xbox will void the warranty.
Good luck.
What's the difference between LCD and Plasma? What is better for sports and video games?
Q. In addition, what brands would you recommend? I have a $1500 budget and am looking for a 37 inch minimum flat screen to hang on my wall. Also, will video game usage (xbox 360,ps2, laptop connection, etc.) damage my screen and leave an imprint?
A. The fast and simple answer is:
A plasma display panel (PDP) is an emissive flat panel display where light is created by phosphors excited by a plasma discharge between two flat panels of glass. The gas discharge contains no mercury (contrary to the backlights of an AMLCD). An inert mixture of noble gases (neon and xenon) is used instead.
What you have is a physical excitement of free radicals between the flat panel plates. This plasma will eventually burn out. It is 100% inevitable. It is know in the FPD design world that plasma TV technology will die out within 5-10 years.
A liquid crystal display (LCD) is a thin, flat display device made up of any number of color or monochrome pixels arrayed in front of a light source or reflector. It is prized by engineers because it uses very small amounts of electric power, and is therefore suitable for use in battery-powered electronic devices.
Each pixel consists of a column of liquid crystal molecules suspended between two transparent electrodes, and two polarizing filters, the axes of polarity of which are perpendicular to each other. Without the liquid crystals between them, light passing through one would be blocked by the other. The liquid crystal twists the polarization of light entering one filter to allow it to pass through the other.
As LCD technology gets better through schemes such as DLP, the quality of LCDâs will eventually become equal to that of plasma TVâs. For gaming, Plasma TVâs respond faster and provide better definition, however, as stated previously, have their definite problems.
I would wait 5 years until some advances which are currently on the design table come to fruition. By that time, GEN 10 flat panels will become a reality and the current GEN 8 models will become much cheaper.
LG makes a great DLP LCD You can get a 37 inch for around your budget. You XBOX will not affect the long term reliablity of your LCD DLP TV.
What is the best Video game console to buy PS3 or Xbox 360 ?
Q. Plz
I want to buy a Video game console which one i could buy ?
PS3 or Xbox 360 ?
A. In my opinion, easily the PS3! i have had a ps3 for years. if you have internet and hook it up to your ps3, you can just do it. if you have a xbox 360 you have to pay for your internet ( like everyone) and pay to use your internet on your xbox and if you have wireless internet, you have to buy another product that comes separate from the xbox to play online games with your wireless internet. now if you dont have internet, buying a ps3 makes more sense just because, you never know if you will get internet. Also i must add that ps3 games are pretty much all next generation games. They are all popular and harder games. so if you like family games or cartoonish games, chance are ps3 prolly wont have it. Now abox has alot of kid and family games. thats prolly one of the few things people choose xbox over ps3. people use to always choose xbox over ps3 because xbox was cheaper but now there the same price. And PS3 was more money for a reason. Bottom line, PS3 has way more features. Its basicly a computer. when the commercials say PS3 does everything, THEY MEAN EVERYTHING!!!
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