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Xbox360 Crashes?
MarathoN:
Erm, I've never seen an original Xbox crash, I think Refalm is probably right, the problems were caused by Microsoft trying to port their OS to PPC
noob:
i crashed my orig xbox. it;s the only M$ thing i actually like.
worker201:
Well, if an OS isn't portable, that means it does too much work. That's one of Microsoft's problems - they have programs doing what the OS should be doing, and OS doing what programs should be doing. See for instance the arguments against Windows technically being an OS at all, for more details on these issues.
I thought it was kinda funny to see the responses to the Xbox 360. At Slashdot, 73% (as of yesterday) said they would never own one - that's terrible market share for a system trying to make money off of game licensing. At some other site, it was really sad how many people were saying "Well, it's Microsoft, of course it is going to crash". And at some list of comments one young kid said "I like Microsoft, but I hate their bugs". Just saying.
WMD:
It's probably not a porting problem. Windows NT ran on PPC a decade ago.
Some say it's a heat problem.
Lead Head:
I heard Heat Problems and PSU problems. I also heard the MS said the 360 has a 1 in 20 failure rate
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