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The Xbox 360 Slim which was announced and released during this year’s E3 might already be having problems.
Images have been discovered on a Forum showing an Xbox 360 Slim with what is believed to be the “Red Dot of Death”. The Forum, NeoGaf has not confirmed whether or not the images are 100% real, but the images posted show one of the Xbox 360 Slim with the RDOD, and another image showing the error message on the Dashboard.
Take a look for yourselves and decide:
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Article from Gamersyndrome.com
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This is 100% real. I know so because this just happened to my xbox last night. I bought the Slim on August 7th. Ive worked for most of the week so i didnt play much but when i did i noticed how hot one area of the console was getting. It was almost too hot to touch so i knew everything wasn’t working as intended. Last nite i finally sat down and played RDR for about 2 hours and then it happened. The game froze so i turned it off and back on.. and all i got was the red dot and a black screen. I waited about an hour for it to cool down and turned it back on and it worked. Knowing that i can only play 2 hours at a time is not what i signed up for.. although it is ingenious if it was meant to be used as a timer so that parents can monitor their childrens screen time… maybe ill give microsoft the benefit of the doubt… …
It’s not a problem. It’s a feature Microsoft added to the new XBOX 360 models that monitors the console’s temperature and when it gets hot from lack of air circulation it alerts the user that the console will shut off. This is a form of self-protection from overheating, which will save your hardware from frying itself out. The original 360 consoles were famous for overheating, which was the cause of the Red Ring Of Death.
If you look at the first picture you’ll see that the XBOX in question is inside of an entertainment center behind a glass door. Placing any console in such a location gives it no air circulation because the back is closed up and the glass door in front of it is closed also. This means your console is expelling hot air from it’s fan into an essentially sealed environment with no fresh air to draw in and cool itself off.
So in this case it’s not another hardware issue stemming from Microsoft. This is merely a case of users selecting a poor location to place their new XBOX 360 Slim consoles, which makes the new temperature monitor system integrated into these consoles a smart idea.