I received an XBox for Christmas. To my dismay, I began getting the red ring early on. Most often, it would occur when a game began to load, which also seemed to be the point when the more intense graphic sequences would initialize. Usually, if I could proceed beyond this point, I was in the clear and could play.
On my rig, the problematic "red ring" did not appear to stem from excessive heat generated from intense rendering. However, from time to time, during gameplay, the graphics would freeze and upon reboot, I would get the red ring.
Based on this, I support the theory that the problem stems from a manufacturing issue, such as poor soldering, and not a design issue as was indicated above.
I'm encouraged by the maturity of hardy hedon. However, there is still one MAJOR issue plaguing the distro. ACPI support. When a laptop user such as myself wishes to suspend their session, the OS never returns, instead yielding a black screen of death. Infoworld recently hammered on Ubuntu for not shaking out the ACPI bug in the available hardy hedon beta distro now available. While I realize there are some convoluted work-arounds, its these convoluted work-arounds that prevent simpletons from adopting linux / Ubuntu in the first place.
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I received an XBox for Christmas. To my dismay, I began getting the red ring early on. Most often, it would occur when a game began to load, which also seemed to be the point when the more intense graphic sequences would initialize. Usually, if I could proceed beyond this point, I was in the clear and could play. On my rig, the problematic "red ring" did not appear to stem from excessive heat generated from intense rendering. However, from time to time, during gameplay, the graphics would freeze and upon reboot, I would get the red ring. Based on this, I support the theory that the problem stems from a manufacturing issue, such as poor soldering, and not a design issue as was indicated above.
I'm encouraged by the maturity of hardy hedon. However, there is still one MAJOR issue plaguing the distro. ACPI support. When a laptop user such as myself wishes to suspend their session, the OS never returns, instead yielding a black screen of death. Infoworld recently hammered on Ubuntu for not shaking out the ACPI bug in the available hardy hedon beta distro now available. While I realize there are some convoluted work-arounds, its these convoluted work-arounds that prevent simpletons from adopting linux / Ubuntu in the first place.