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Community => Non-audio hobbies and interests => Ender's Game => Topic started by: bubba966 on 18 Feb 2005, 03:20 am
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050217-4624.html
Apparently some of the early cords have been melting down/catching fire! :o
Mine deck is certainly old enough to be one of the effected. Guess I'll be filling out the form to get a non-flamable replacement sent to me... :shake:
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I had to sell my original Xbox because it's DVD player stopped working- the dreaded Thomson drive. I replaced it with a newer Xbox last year, so hopefully I'm OK with the power cord.
Michael
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I filled out the form and they will be sending me a new PC...
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I've been wanting to upgrade my power cord anyway to improve audio/video qualities . Any recommendations ?
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The AudioQuest NRG-1 or NRG-1.5 would be nice. I forget exactly who else makes a cord that would fit, but I want to say PS Audio makes one. :scratch:
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Finally got off my ass and ordered the replacement cord.
Wonder how long it'll take to get here?...
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I'll have to check my Xbox over, too. It's several years old, so maybe it's got one of the cords o' fire. :o
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:o The replacement cord showed up today! Damn that was fast.
Kinda looks like a GFCI has been built into the power cord. Wonder what design problem the Xbox has to require that type of cord?... :scratch:
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did you guys read about the real story behind the cord?
the actual fault is within the xbox where the socket joins the motherboard - dry joints
so instead of recalling xboxes which would be expensive they just put out a power cord that has a breaker of some sort in it. so that fires dont start.
newer xboxes have a different power supply and dont suffer from the problem.