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I think this means Italy has suffered a general hardware error and now we have to wrap it in a towel to try to get it to boot again. (For the younger HN reader
by onion2k 4y ago
I think this means Italy has suffered a general hardware error and now we have to wrap it in a towel to try to get it to boot again.
(For the younger HN reader ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems)
- jeron 4y agoI remember taking apart an Xbox with RRoD to find that all the solders had disintegrated. Reflowing may have helped but I just sold it to GameStop instead
- geepytee 4y agoIt doesn't say in Wikipedia, what is the towel for?
- bowsamic 4y agoIf you let it run wrapped in a towel it would sometimes temporarily fix it
- xattt 4y agoThe towel insulated the Xbox and remelted the BGA.
- scohesc 4y agoIf I recall, the theory was that wrapping your 360 in a towel and turning it on would heat it up so much that whatever microfractures in solder joints that may have been causing the RROD problem would temporarily bond together again and make your Xbox usable for a time.
- neerd 4y agoIt issue was with brittle solder on the boards and wrapping it in a towel and turning it on would allow it to get hot enough to (hopefully) re-flow broken connections.
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- vasco 4y agoThe simulation runners got angry with the banning of ChatGPT in Italy as it risks diverting from the most fun universe-simulation mainline and have started to send signals to get us back on track.