HALO Version Original Xbox Freezing During Thrillville Game

[garagesaleking!!]

Since my 360 died i have started to use an original xbox to pass the time. it is one of the halo edition ones. I have become addicted to the game thrillville and cant stop playing it. Heres the thing. It seems when i have played for 2-3 hours straight the system freezes. It has frozen on me about 4 times in 4 days. I kind of start to feel when i have been playing for a certain amount of time and sure it enough it freezes. It just freezes whatever is on the screen and stays like that. I have to turn the system off and restart it then it works fine again.

Does anyone have any idea what is causing this? Thanks for the help!

[ProgrammingAce]

Fun fact: The halo xboxes were the "non-defective" returns from the black xboxes. Due to warehousing laws, they couldn't resell a console that had already been sold unless it was under a different SKU. Most limited edition consoles were once returns. Same with consoles that have pack ins.

They get sent back to the manufacturer. Once they go back through testing, they're repackaged as some LE or pack in and resold.

[garagesaleking!!]

that is really interesting! I wonder how common that actually is though?

[eugenek]

Fun fact: The halo xboxes were the "non-defective" returns from the black xboxes. Due to warehousing laws, they couldn't resell a console that had already been sold unless it was under a different SKU. Most limited edition consoles were once returns. Same with consoles that have pack ins.

They get sent back to the manufacturer. Once they go back through testing, they're repackaged as some LE or pack in and resold.

Shit, no way! That's incredible, I never knew that. Was it really more cost-effective to create a whole new casing rather than just keeping them as warranty replacements or something?

[ProgrammingAce]

Shit, no way! That's incredible, I never knew that. Was it really more cost-effective to create a whole new casing rather than just keeping them as warranty replacements or something?

They already had the cases from the debug systems.

[The 1 2 P]

Very interesting Ace. I'll have to add that somewhere to my upcoming Xbox demo site.

[ProgrammingAce]

It's fairly common in the industry, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all do it.

[megasdkirby]

But shouldn't they be relabeled as "refurbished" or "remanufactured"?

Sure, they weren't defective, but the term above applies even to changing cases. So in a way, I see this as a deceiptful practice in a companies part.

[ProgrammingAce]

But shouldn't they be relabeled as "refurbished" or "remanufactured"?

Sure, they weren't defective, but the term above applies even to changing cases. So in a way, I see this as a deceiptful practice in a companies part.

Electronics manufacturers have been doing it for decades. If you don't like the practice, you should call your congressman and have them change the warehousing laws.

Microsoft stopped doing it once the 360s launched, and have never done it with the Zunes.

[eugenek]

Electronics manufacturers have been doing it for decades. If you don't like the practice, you should call your congressman and have them change the warehousing laws.

Microsoft stopped doing it once the 360s launched, and have never done it with the Zunes.

Ah, but he doesn't have a voting representative in Congress.