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Not that much smoke in this case. I've seen electronics that smoke when they get powered on for the first time. Some kind of alloy on some components melting away which is normal though. But that would cause that much amount of smoke.
Same as one of them in the OP.
I believe we have four reports of this so far: two videos and two via text (Reddit and Twitter).
Reports of failures don't worry me that much unless they're really widespread, but there's something about a plume of smoke which makes it a bit more disturbing than "my console doesn't work any more".
Exceptional.
Exceptional.
No way Microsoft let red ring happen again. I don't see this being more than a few faulty units.
Please god
Please god
Mod Edit(There is now more than one video. Currently awaiting further updates).
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How is that even possible?
it's for celebrating the Ps5 launch.
It sure took me a while to process ha-ha... I think my heart rate must have reached 200bpm.
True story: I went through three TV's in one day, and not the same model either... I'm sure the staff at Argos were thinking I was breaking them on purpose or something, although they were great about it all it must be said. But it does show how many faults there can be in electronic gear.... I was seriously unlucky that day though lol.
No. This thread is repeating the same 2 videos over and over again, plus one image off Twitter.
I'd take the wait and see approach here, if this is a widespread problem you'll know by the weekend and you'll see a lot more instances of it.
A widespread problem affecting 0.5% of Series X consoles would be about 5,000 instances on a initial manufacture of a million consoles.
If it got to that stage we'd see much much more than five videos. Still this is worth bearing in mind at the moment but hopefully isolated.
In terms of quality control I'd be surprised if it was overheating MS seemingly have done a lot of testing including putting the machines in what are essentially ovens for days to simulate running in unrealistically hot environments.
A widespread problem affecting 0.5% of Series X consoles would be about 5,000 instances on a initial manufacture of a million consoles.
If it got to that stage we'd see much much more than five videos. Still this is worth bearing in mind at the moment but hopefully isolated.
In terms of quality control I'd be surprised if it was overheating MS seemingly have done a lot of testing including putting the machines in what are essentially ovens for days to simulate running in unrealistically hot environments.
oh, I thought it was on. If not, a PSU going bad would smoke that much and that fast.
Maybe its the result of dust landing inside of the console through the holes or idk another foreign object falling into it (i mean im just guessing here, but with the holes on top of the console tbings could fall in easily )
it could be the PSU went kaput and the fan is still spinning for a little while. But we don't know what happened yet really
Big oof. If this is widespread this isn't gonna make for pleasant zoom meetings between the Xbox brass. Some heads gonna roll in QA and/or manufacturing. I mean there's zero chance this wasn't tested to hell and back. Maybe a particular production line had some faulty tooling or the QA wasn't rigorous enough.
Haha, exactly my thought. Someone put some dry ice there for fun.
It helps that this is a through flow air system where other electronics are more of a closed box type. Smoke naturally rises, the design of Series X is totally able to highlight this better.
Thought the first video was fake because...well, it looks fake. The way it was billowing then quickly trailed off looks like someone blew vape into it. Second video too, but less so. Just thought people were fucking around. But now a few more people have said theirs have done the same so I don't know. Certainly a story to keep up with. What sucks is the turn-around time on sending them in will probably be brutal considering they're sold out.
I made a post a bit back where I showed a faulty PSU going up in smoke. So Yeah a faulty PSU can definitely cause that much smoke and can even start fires.
I kinda wish the OP would threadmark my post because too many people are calling fake because of the amount of smoke while it's completely possible.
Fully agree. The exact same thing happened with the Switch as well, there were so many conversations about the dock scratching the screens, the switch bending, people jamming the wrist straps on the wrong controller and getting the stuck, bricked systems.
Happens every time. Will happen with PS5 as well.
I have seen overheated hardware few times and it's like *POFF* and it shuts down and maybe a little whiff of smoke. It smells of burnt components and that smell aint very pleasant at all.
Hopefully this is just a few faulty units, same with the ps5 thread yesterday, and not a more widespread problem. If both consoles are having widespread issues this could be disastrous for next gen.
I honestly also don't know. Just seemed way to fast for me, but I am at work so no audio. Maybe the light just simply stopped working because of the issue.
Time will tell what is happening. Hopefully nothing too serious. Though I hope my home is not full of smoke when I come home haha.
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