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Most case should happen in launch day though, unless it's long term issue(slowing killing the machine) like RROD.
Nope
There's no quality check for faulty capacitors
No it has little rubber feet on one side. The XsX doesn't come with a stand other than the one that is fixed to the bottom.
One went in my PC with a bang, and a real fucking loud one too, with lots of smoke. I nearly ended up on the floor as I shot myself backwards on my chair. The rest of the PC survived.
Hopefully this is not a widespead, recall triggering, problem for XSX owners.
I wasn't going to jump in on next gen immediately anyway so this doesn't have an effect on my personal buying decision, but I really hope that Microsoft wouldn't be so careless as to put their product to market before they confident that it won't be a fire hazard.
Honestly, so many hardware launches are accompanied with a "check this debilitating flaw" crop of edge cases. Phones that bend, combusting laptops. It'll get sorted and won't be endemic.
Few hours before PSU in my old computer went into digital hell (with a loud bang) similar looking smoke appeared from PSU fan.
Calm down. A couple of faulty units is completely common, with QC. The problem is very visual due to the XSX basically being a chimney.
That is not true. It can be positioned both horizontally and vertically.
You are welcome. And to be clear, orientation has nothing to do with an issue like this.
Seriously. Hell, I had a shitty cheap molex to sata adapter short once and it not only went up in smoke but also flames as well. Melted the back half of the bluray drive it was plugged into.
Jury's out on how widespread this is, but if the PSUs are failing/shorting, I can absolutely believe they'd go off like this.
This will be a non issue. It's annoying for the people who encounter this, but it's surely a really really low percentage. We would have already gotten News of this a lot earlier, with thousands of Series X being sent out ot Press and Influencers weeks ago.
What interests me now, do companies keep some stock for this instances? So that they can easily replace them? Or do they just try to repair it?
What interests me now, do companies keep some stock for this instances? So that they can easily replace them? Or do they just try to repair it?
Another one from Reddit. No pics or video though.
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It's most likely a faulty capacitor. I've seen this happen to PC's.
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It's most likely a faulty capacitor. I've seen this happen to PC's.
Yeah, it's a very dramatic way for PC hardware to go out, and since most never have to deal with it anyway, the immediate thought will go to something much worse
Thinking on it, this wouldn't be entirely surprising to occur either, in a year where supply chains have been constrained. Cheap out on an odd capacitor here or there to get stock prepared for launch, and it's quite possible
Also possible. One of the PSUs that blew in my childhood had been kept in a cabin in the garden over the winter, and we underestimated what that would do to it
3 out of a few million. We live in a time with more social network interaction than ever. I am sure people had faulty launch day consoles of the OG Xbox, PS2 and Gamecube. But nobody noticed.
2 videos and two persons talking about it. At least in this thread, because sometimes users posted OP videos again and called it a new case. Which was false.
All products can break. That's the reality and you don't even want any company to test every device in production line, unless you want cost to explode.
I read someone on my Twitter timeline complaining that his console would turn off by itself, after a shorter period of time every time he boots it up. No smoking though, but maybe temp related shutdown?
In any case, it's to be expected that some units would be faulty. It just gets amplified x1000 nowadays.
In any case, it's to be expected that some units would be faulty. It just gets amplified x1000 nowadays.
What we are not seeing are the videos of hundreds of thousands Series X consoles happily chugging away playing games on launch day.
The worst part about this happening now is that you're not likely to get a straight swap right away :(
The worst part about this happening now is that you're not likely to get a straight swap right away :(
One of the most disappointing times was on launch day for Xbox360. Got my console from GAME and the cashier joked that "oh that's the one we dropped down the stairs".
We laughed, I went home, set it up, played Perfect Dark Zero for a little while and got the Red Ring of Death.
The panic and unknowing of what to do, this never happened to me before with consoles I'd previously got, but this was the first time I bought a new console myself on launch day, all previous were a few months later for presents for occasions of the year like Xmas or birthday from parents.
Returning to GAME as questioning did they really drop it down the stairs and trying to refund it or exchange it to no avail as there were no spares left that hadn't been pre-ordered. Took weeks for a Microsoft to take mine in for repair.
I can only feed sad for those who are going through this smoking series x fiasco if it does end up becoming as large as RROD.
Such a horrible way to feel on what should be an exciting day! New console day!
We laughed, I went home, set it up, played Perfect Dark Zero for a little while and got the Red Ring of Death.
The panic and unknowing of what to do, this never happened to me before with consoles I'd previously got, but this was the first time I bought a new console myself on launch day, all previous were a few months later for presents for occasions of the year like Xmas or birthday from parents.
Returning to GAME as questioning did they really drop it down the stairs and trying to refund it or exchange it to no avail as there were no spares left that hadn't been pre-ordered. Took weeks for a Microsoft to take mine in for repair.
I can only feed sad for those who are going through this smoking series x fiasco if it does end up becoming as large as RROD.
Such a horrible way to feel on what should be an exciting day! New console day!
People that do not know each other report independently of consoles going up in smoke, why should this be fake?
on another note, maybe they should have shipped some fridges alongside the consoles...
Don't know if it's a joke or not, but it has nothing to do with it.
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