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Nintendo Game Cube Crashing?

Posted by Cliff on from the consoles-shouldn't-crash dept.

flipper28 asks: "I recently purchased a Nintendo Gamecube with Luigi's Mansion for my wife's birthday. I thought with all the hype around the XBox crashing that I would be safe with the competition. As it turn's out, my system keeps crashing, and yes, I have exchanged the games (which IMHO only made Nintendo happy). I am interested if others have experienced the same problem. Is their a manufacturing problem, or did I just get a bad one." I've experienced crashing in the two days I've owned my GameCube, however this centers around replacing the disc with the power on and hitting reset...or something, but I've only had the cube crash at the power-on screen, so it's not been that big of an issue for me. Anyone else experiencing weird behavior on the GameCube?

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  1. Happend To A Friend by jsonic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My friend and I bought gamecubes on the release day from the same store. His has crashed multiple times while playing games, but I've had no problems with mine.

    The crashs happened while using different games, which leads one to think that this is a hardware problem.

    1. Re:Happend To A Friend by Judg3 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Same here, a bunch of us from work all bought units the same day (about 10 of us) out of that, 4 have serious crashing problems while the other 6 (including me) dont have any problems. 50% of the machines seem to have problems, not good.

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  2. Interference maybe? by Leknor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I haven't personally tested any of this but since people are getting mixed stability reports maybe it has something to do with external interference. Most people I know, including myself, tend to put all their A/V equimentment in one small area next to their TV and then on each side of the A/V unit is two large speakers. It seems to me this would increase the probablity of seemingly inconsistent crashes.