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CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
edited December 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
Some of you may remember seeing my thread about my 360 RRoD'ing a couple of days ago, well today I decided to play a few games on my PC instead and the goddamn thing blew up! I'm talking a bang a fizz and a shit load of smoke and burnt plastic smell. Now either I'm having a REALLY shitty week or this is no coincidence. I have builders outside my flat right now building new blocks next to me messing around with the gas, the electric everything. The electrics in my flat seem to be going haywire right now my I've had light bulbs blowing out my 360 and now this. I'm terrified to turn anything else on! Am I being paranoid here or could the builders be to blame?

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  • ImDrawingABlankImDrawingABlank Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Throw some good surge protectors on all your valuable electronics, construction jobs depending on the size can draw huge amounts of power, and when the weather is poor it becomes even worse as the water will short out equipment and blow breakers constantly. If you share power with their grid, which Im sure you do, it is possible the site is drawing a large amount of power that is fluctuating.

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  • Delicious SteveDelicious Steve Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Surge Protectors, very useful and cheap.

    Your 360 RRoD'ing is a hardware problem, specifically the shitty soldering job inside the box, i wouldn't link it to a bad power source, though it's not impossible.

    Power lines aren't underground in my area, so lightning hits it a fair amount, so i turn all my electronics off during a storm, aswell as unplugging my phone line (lightning hit that once, i can only figure it hit the phone line, went up through my router, through the LAN cable and had nowhere to go when it arrived at my motherboard, melting it)

    But even without a power surge or brown out, things blow up, like my power supply did earlier this year, sparks and all, you just have to accept that electronics die sometimes :|

    So yeah, beware storms and use surge protectors, and hope for the best.

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