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GameStop Knowingly Sold Temporarily Fixed Xboxs - console
(hx) 07:38 PM CET - Jan,11 2015 - Post a comment / read (4)
A new report claims that GameStop learned how to fix it back in 2009, and has been reselling the refurbished consoles ever since. The fix, it turns out, could very well have been temporary, which means the much-derided GameStop was selling Xbox 360s marked for death.
Sadly, the fix is likely temporary. The GameStop heating-and-cooling method sounds similar to the famous towel method that spread across the internet; remove everything (that’s easily removed) but the power supply from the Xbox 360, wrap it entirely in towels, plug the console in and let it run for 20 minutes, turn it off and unplug for 20 minutes, and it should work once again. The towel method often worked because it used the console’s own heat to re-melt solder on the GPU, but generally proved to be a temporary fix because of the inherent flaws in the motherboard that caused the problem in the first place.
last 10 comments:
Kompressor(05:29 AM CET - Jan,12 2015 )
You can't trust any company these days.

Tom(07:15 PM CET - Jan,12 2015 )
Same guys who take trade-ins and give you nothing for it and turn around and sell the game at near 90% of the original cost. Same guys who sell dead title at high prices. They didn't like it when I was telling people they could get thier game online for cheaper. Showing them Steam and GOG. Totally dishonest company nobody should shop at. Hate seeing kids in there getting games and just knowing they are getting ripped.

Bert(08:43 PM CET - Jan,12 2015 )
The towel method - Theres just so much wrong from every angle not including an incompetent soldering job from the manufacturer. <facepalm>.
Also if the arguement is used to justify why consoles are better and less expensive than PCs, then haha yeah just sayin...

th4t1guy(03:14 PM CET - Jan,13 2015 )
This is a risk whenever you buy any used system. I don't know why anyone is surprised. You think anyone on ebay that used this method to fix their console advertises it?

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