Make Your Xbox 360 Last For Years - Essential Pointers
by Don Sullivan
All machines will break down if they aren't given some minimal care. With the Xbox 360, this is especially true. The slim is a fairly stable machine but if your Xbox is an earlier model, then it will overheat and even get the ring of death if it isn't treated right. But there are a number of measures you can take that will add years of life to your console. Two of these will be discussed here.
Micro electronics tend to generate a lot of heat and this is especially true of the components inside your console. The fact that a lot of power flows through these tiny components means their temperature will get too hot to the touch in a matter of seconds if they don't have a cooling system to draw off excess heat. This is why all electronic devices will have some sort of cooling system. Even devices without fans will at the very least have a heat sink attached to them. Without some sort of cooling, all micro electronics would instantly overheat and fail.
Since the motherboard inside the Xbox 360 is made up of micro components, it has the same vulnerability to heat. Because the cooling system is barely adequate, your console can easily overheat or run on the hot side. This prolonged exposure to heat over time will "wear down" the micro chips inside the console and reduce it's useful life. This slow "breakdown" can be further accelerated if your Xbox is used in dusty or poorly ventilated areas.
Burning out the motherboard components isn't the only problem caused by heat. The motherboard itself gets warped repeatedly over time which weakens the solder joints. If they develop cracks, then the console won't work.
The most important thing you can do to reduce heat exposure is to keep the console from overheating from the outset. Therefore gaming time needs to be restricted to one or two hours at a time. Keep the environment cool, ventilated, and dust free. There is another practice you can try after you've finished a gaming session. Let the console idle for twenty minutes at the Xbox dashboard before turning the power off. The fans will continue to run allowing the Xbox to cool even further since no new heat is being generated at this time.
Failure to do this means that a lot of left over heat from your gaming session gets trapped inside the console. This heat eventually dissipates but takes longer to do so which increases the exposure time of your console to heat. This additional time does add up over the life of your Xbox.
Less exposure to heat means a longer life for your Xbox. That's simply the way micro components behave. This means you will be less likely to have overheating problems that bring on the two red light error and will make it less likely that you will ever see the red ring of death.
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Title: Make Your Xbox 360 Last For Years - Essential Pointers
Author: Don Sullivan
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Keywords: xbox problems,xbox troubleshooting,xbox repair,xbox game system,xbox 360,xbox,video gaming,video games,computer games,gaming
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Category: Games
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