Fix Your Crashing X-Box 360 With String

mkraft writes "A gamer fed up with his new Xbox 360 crashing every 20 minutes has fixed the problem by raising the power supply off the ground with some string. Goldeneyemaster over at the GameSpot forums indicates that the main reason for his Xbox 360 freezing up is the power supply overheating. The solution is to lift the power supply off the floor and allow the air to circulate better around it."

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For some reason...

[epr]

...this comes to mind:

Adrian Wapcaplet: Aah, come in, come in, Mr....Simpson. Aaah, welcome to
        Mousebat, Follicle, Goosecreature, Ampersand, Spong, Wapcaplet, Looseliver,
        Vendetta and Prang!
Mr. Simpson: Thank you.
Wapcaplet: Do sit down--my name's Wapcaplet, Adrian Wapcaplet...
Mr. Simpson: how'd'y'do.
Wapcaplet: Now, Mr. Simpson... Simpson, Simpson... French, is it?
S: No.
W: Aah. Now, I understand you want us to advertise your washing powder.
S: String.
W: String, washing powder, what's the difference. We can sell *anything*.
S: Good. Well I have this large quantity of string, a hundred and twenty-two
      thousand *miles* of it to be exact, which I inherited, and I thought if I
      advertised it--
W: Of course! A national campaign. Useful stuff, string, no trouble there.
S: Ah, but there's a snag, you see. Due to bad planning, the hundred and
      twenty-two thousand miles is in three inch lengths. So it's not very
      useful.
W: Well, that's our selling point!
      "SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL STRINGETTES!"
S: What?
W: "THE NOW STRING! READY CUT, EASY TO HANDLE, SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL EMPEROR
        STRINGETTES - JUST THE RIGHT LENGTH!"
S: For what?
W: "A MILLION HOUSEHOLD USES!"
S: Such as?
W: Uhmm...Tying up very small parcels, attatching notes to pigeons' legs, uh,
      destroying household pests...
S: Destroying household pests?! How?
W: Well, if they're bigger than a mouse, you can strangle them with it, and if
      they're smaller than, you flog them to death with it!
S: Well *surely*!....
W: "DESTROY NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF KNOWN HOUSEHOLD PESTS WITH PRE-SLICED,
      RUSTPROOF, EASY-TO-HANDLE, LOW CALORIE SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL EMPEROR
      STRINGETTES, FREE FROM ARTIFICIAL COLORING, AS USED IN HOSPITALS!"
S: 'Ospitals!?!?!?!!?
W: Have you ever in a Hospital where they didn't have string?
S: No, but it's only *string*!
W: ONLY STRING?! It's everything! It's...it's waterproof!
S: No it isn't!
W: All right, it's water resistant then!
S: It isn't!
W: All right, it's water absorbent! It's...Super Absorbent String!
      "ABSORB WATER TODAY WITH SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL WATER ABSORB-A-TEX
        STRINGETTES! AWAY WITH FLOODS!"
S: You just said it was waterproof!
W: "AWAY WITH THE DULL DRUDGERY OF WORKADAY TIDAL WAVES! USE SIMPSON'S
        INDIVIDUAL FLOOD PREVENTERS!"
S: You're mad!
W: Shut up, shut up, shut up! Sex, sex sex, must get sex into it. Wait,
      I see a television commercial-

      There's this nude woman in a bath holding a bit of your string. That's
      great, great, but we need a doctor, got to have a medical opinion.

      There's a nude woman in a bath with a doctor--that's too sexy. Put an
      archbishop there watching them, that'll take the curse off it. Now, we
      need children and animals.

      There's two kids admiring the string, and a dog admiring the archbishop
      who's blessing the string. Uhh...international flavor's missing...make the
      archbishop Greek Orthodox. Why not Archbishop Macarios? No, no, he's
      dead... nevermind, we'll get his brother, it'll be cheaper... So, there's
      this nude woman....

Re:People who live in cramped quarters

[shawb]

Duck Tape is one of the more common brands of duct tape. It's like calling facial tisue Kleenex. Besides, most building codes do not allow duct tape to be used on air ducts... you are supposed to use the really shiny silver stuff.

Re:People who live in cramped quarters

[SquadBoy]

Yes I KNOW there is a brand of duct tape called duck tape.

Speed tape, or 100 MPH tape, which is what the military uses is not duct tape. Close but no cigar. And nobody in the military calls it duct *or* duck tape.

Re:Leave it to Microsoft.

[kumachan]

Xbox 360 where 360 refers to the temperature of the power supply