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New Xbox 360 Warns You When Its Too Hot, Shuts Down

By Roland Hutchinson on Tuesday 22nd June 2010 11:09 am in Design, Gadgets

The first generation Xbox had problems with the Red Ring of Death (RROD), when the console got to warm, and once this happened you pretty much had to send it to Microsoft to get it fixed.

We have already heard that the new Xbox 360 now has a RDOT, which lets you know when there is something wrong with the console, usually a hardware failure.

New Xbox 360 Warns You When Its Too Hot, Shuts Down

It seems Microsoft now has a solution to overheating consoles on the New Xbox 360, when it gets to hot, it will automatically shut itself down, as you can see in the message above.

Hopefully this will mean that the Xbox 360 will shut itself down before it gets damaged, and thus avoiding a RDOT.

via Slippery Brick

Tags: Design, Gadgets

Davies

I do hope it does not do this all the time!
mestiso7323

So now they have implemented a software precaution for overheathing. That just means that they didn’t completely fix it on the hardware side. Way to go MS. Maybe the next version will have a few more updates that will get them one step closer to fixing the heat issues.
Ralph

I just bought the X-Box 360 with the 250 Gig drive. One controller and no games. We had our theater guy hook it up in the theater room and it is in a cabinet with the dishnet box. After 30 minutes of just being on, the satelite box came on and said it was too hot.

I do not know if this would have caught fire, but they need to come up with a solution and not just a warning. What if you are not home and dont tell me that you should turn it off when done. How many kids are going to do that.