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Sammus · 09.10.2008, 01:22 AM

Lol that sounds so familiar. I don't know if you know much about the Xbox 360 and its infamous RROD problem, but MS seem to think the problem is heating, and keep adding heatsinking, but 95% of people (myself included) are able to fix the rrod by replacing their stupid 'x-clamp' heatsink mounting system with something that doesnt flex the motherboard in those critical areas. (ie where the cpu and gpu are mounted).

Apparently (and I'm no expert) the problem was that the flex caused some solder joints to separate. If you take the flex out, they make contact again and voila your back in business.

Not saying its the same problem here, but there is an example of a big wealthy company misidentifying a problem - with the extraordinary amount of evidence about the cause off the rrod, MS still don't seem to consider their stupid motherboard flexing clamps a problem.

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Sammus RC-Monster Titanium Offline Posts: 1,161 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: All over Australia.	09.10.2008, 01:22 AM Lol that sounds so familiar. I don't know if you know much about the Xbox 360 and its infamous RROD problem, but MS seem to think the problem is heating, and keep adding heatsinking, but 95% of people (myself included) are able to fix the rrod by replacing their stupid 'x-clamp' heatsink mounting system with something that doesnt flex the motherboard in those critical areas. (ie where the cpu and gpu are mounted). Apparently (and I'm no expert) the problem was that the flex caused some solder joints to separate. If you take the flex out, they make contact again and voila your back in business. Not saying its the same problem here, but there is an example of a big wealthy company misidentifying a problem - with the extraordinary amount of evidence about the cause off the rrod, MS still don't seem to consider their stupid motherboard flexing clamps a problem.