Overheating 360 fix

[Mekon]

My 360 was getting uncomfortably hot, partly 'cos they do, and partly 'cos mine is in an almost completely enclosed cupboard. I was on the verge of buying a powered laptop cooler when I read a review that tested a bunch of them. A passive cooler (XPad4) came out top, cooling the laptop 4c lower than the rest. Looking at the design, it was clear that it just allows air to flow more clearly underneath. Being a hi-fi geek, I have a bunch of cone points to hand. I popped 3 underneath the 360. An hour later, the 360 is only tepid to the touch, and the vents are blowing out cool air. Chuffed! I am sure popping pretty much anything under a 360 to raise it up would help, but using 3 points has the benefit of stopping the 360 rocking at all. I am using poncey Mitchell Engineering ones, but they sell cheap ones at Richer.

[TheKeyboardDemon]

Cool, we have a 360 at work, it has been replaced 3 times due to heat related issues, I'll try this at work and see if that helps.

Thanks.

[Digby]

You can read my posts and see my pics on here to see how i cooled my 360 if you
have a hunt.
It didn't make any difference though, it still died after about a year.

I put it in the oven to get it working again and it lasted about 5 days and died
again yesterday, so i put it back in the oven once more and it's working again.
Probably for another few days i would assume.

[peterpeter]

mine started crashing this afternoon playing dirt demo and call of duty.

didnt crash playing the forza demo for an hour tho. Anyway I did the same thing (raising it up), but with lego

bricks.

If it dies between now and june 8th, or indeed anytime soon after that, im going to stamp on it, go straight out and

buy another one.

[Thudd]

I hoovered mine aggressively with the Dyson, and raised it on some Sorbathane Hi-Fi feet I bought in a weak moment.

It's been fine since. Tho I did have to polish Oblivion with Mr Sheen and a microfibre cloth. Worked wonders!

[ThePassenger]

peterpeter said:

mine started crashing this afternoon playing dirt demo and call of duty.

didnt crash playing the forza demo for an hour tho. Anyway I did the same thing (raising it up), but with lego

bricks.

If it dies between now and june 8th, or indeed anytime soon after that, im going to stamp on it, go straight out and

buy another one.

Please don't. I'll take the chassis off you for some sqiddies if you want Don't want the innards, just the chassis

[Fidgits]

I wonder what i can raise mine with?

i have a pile of free AOL CD's knocking about how high should I raise it?

[:J:]

Fidgits said:

I wonder what i can raise mine with?

i have a pile of free AOL CD's knocking about how high should I raise it?

I get my misses to stand in the corner holding it in the air when I play mine