Geezer

There is an article on BBC news today about people reporting that Kinect is causing RROD on their 360s.

I would have thought that RROD was so common place, how could they possibly corroborate them with Kinect?

Would be interesting to see if figures for RROD have increased significantly since the release of Kinect.

Geezer

Ant

Interesting... Always could be a coincidence as there xbox has been sat for months and then had hours and hours of play on the Kinect

bish667

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A lot of games caused increases in RROD, a lot of people complained that Forza 3 caused the same problem, cant remember what other games that a lot of people complained about.

Gear Head

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forza 3 used to crash alot on my xbox but haven't had RROD yet on my 2 year old unit.

P1Drifter

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how can a game cause an inherent design flaw ?

bioforger

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high cpu use and overheating

bmposer

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I got one for christmas the 250gb with kinect.
It lasted 5 days then died.
It turns on but no lights come on and the controller wont connect.
Still trying to get it replaced through argos.

Myles

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A mate of mine bought his boy the kinect for Christmas, two days later Xbox was goosed. He bought a 250gb model, and I dont hold out too much hope for that either!

ALi-B

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+1

I can imagine Kinect is more CPU intensive which means more heat which means more RRODs


I know it sounds sill,y but I'm glad I'm not into consoles, I mean PS2, PS3 Xbox360, they've all been glitchy in one form or another.

Neanderthal

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Interesting cause the new slim xboxes have a Kinect port that powers it as well, but I believe the older style xboxes you need to plug the Kinect device to it's own power source?

wah

Yeah thats correct if you have the older style 360 you have to plug to the mains supply, were as the latest models you dont as it powers direct from the console ! is this a possible flaw drawing to much power from the console to power the kinect ?

Jamescsti

I'm running a Kinnect on a 2yr old Arcade Xbox and having no issues, and my Xbox gets a lot of hammer

ScoobyJawa

I'm ok here too so far with my launch day xbox! (touching wood!!!!!!)

Saint AAI

I think alot of people still keep Xbox'ss, PS3's etc.. in enclosed spaces with poor airflow. Overheating is probably the main cause of all console failures. My mates PS3 was showing signs of getting too hot not long back, after 10 mins of being on the fan was on full blast. We took it apart to change the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU, the application of the stuff from the factory was crap. Big splodges in the middle that had gone hard and poor coverage. It was cleaned off and I applied new paste, it's nice and quiet now. I'm thinking of putting new paste on my PS3's and Xbox as a precautionary measure.

When new games and hardware comes out, the console will get alot of hammer.