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Three6T on 16 October 2008
De85 said:
After the kinds of revisions they made to the chipset the only thing they could reuse would be the case. Also, as Cueil pointed out they would then have to deal with the inevitable class action suit, and massive bad press. I think the MS execs have probably had enough bad press by now to not even consider something like that.


In theory I suppose they could desolder all the circuit elements, but the cost would be prohibitive so I'm about 100% certain they're not doing it.

 

I'm no computer expert so I'm not going to pretend I am but couldn't the hard-drive and disc drive still be used?  What about the motherboard?  Does cracked soldering completely destroy the motherboard and in retrospect does a comppletely destroyed motherboard damage the other componenets? Thanks:)



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darthdevidem01 on 16 October 2008

uhhh,,,,,I'm sorry but M$ wouldn't risk sucha risky thing



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MrBubbles on 16 October 2008
Three6T said:
De85 said:
After the kinds of revisions they made to the chipset the only thing they could reuse would be the case. Also, as Cueil pointed out they would then have to deal with the inevitable class action suit, and massive bad press. I think the MS execs have probably had enough bad press by now to not even consider something like that.


In theory I suppose they could desolder all the circuit elements, but the cost would be prohibitive so I'm about 100% certain they're not doing it.

 

I'm no computer expert so I'm not going to pretend I am but couldn't the hard-drive and disc drive still be used?  What about the motherboard?  Does cracked soldering completely destroy the motherboard and in retrospect does a comppletely destroyed motherboard damage the other componenets? Thanks:)

 

people dont send their hard drives in. and they have new disk drives as well.



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Ender on 16 October 2008

This thread is really stupid and has no basis in fact. Why even entertain these silly conspiracy theories?

/thread over



Three6T on 16 October 2008
MrBubbles said:
Three6T said:
De85 said:
After the kinds of revisions they made to the chipset the only thing they could reuse would be the case. Also, as Cueil pointed out they would then have to deal with the inevitable class action suit, and massive bad press. I think the MS execs have probably had enough bad press by now to not even consider something like that.


In theory I suppose they could desolder all the circuit elements, but the cost would be prohibitive so I'm about 100% certain they're not doing it.

 

I'm no computer expert so I'm not going to pretend I am but couldn't the hard-drive and disc drive still be used? What about the motherboard? Does cracked soldering completely destroy the motherboard and in retrospect does a comppletely destroyed motherboard damage the other componenets? Thanks:)

 

people dont send their hard drives in. and they have new disk drives as well.

 

I dont get what your saying?  Sorry.



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Serious_frusting on 16 October 2008

if you are right then sue the asses.



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Three6T on 16 October 2008
Ender said:
This thread is really stupid and has no basis in fact. Why even entertain these silly conspiracy theories?

/thread over

 

Well look at it this way...what about all the MGS4 threads about it being released or not released on the 360?  One of them will prove true one of them wont.  So why entertain either one?  Your opion on this thread being "really stupid" is appreciated though. :)



MrBubbles on 16 October 2008
Three6T said:
Ender said:
This thread is really stupid and has no basis in fact. Why even entertain these silly conspiracy theories?

/thread over

 

Well look at it this way...what about all the MGS4 threads about it being released or not released on the 360?  One of them will prove true one of them wont.  So why entertain either one?  Your opion on this thread being "really stupid" is appreciated though. :)

 

most of those threads have something more than your wild, random, speculation for which you have no reason to actually believe what you do.



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De85 on 16 October 2008
Three6T said:
De85 said:
After the kinds of revisions they made to the chipset the only thing they could reuse would be the case. Also, as Cueil pointed out they would then have to deal with the inevitable class action suit, and massive bad press. I think the MS execs have probably had enough bad press by now to not even consider something like that.


In theory I suppose they could desolder all the circuit elements, but the cost would be prohibitive so I'm about 100% certain they're not doing it.

 

I'm no computer expert so I'm not going to pretend I am but couldn't the hard-drive and disc drive still be used?  What about the motherboard?  Does cracked soldering completely destroy the motherboard and in retrospect does a comppletely destroyed motherboard damage the other componenets? Thanks:)

As far as I know it was the motherboard warping that caused the solderig to fail, triggering the RRoD.  When they designed the new chipsets I believe they moved stuff around on the motherboard to dissipate the heat more efficiently so old boards are useless. 

 



Three6T on 16 October 2008
De85 said:
Three6T said:
De85 said:
After the kinds of revisions they made to the chipset the only thing they could reuse would be the case. Also, as Cueil pointed out they would then have to deal with the inevitable class action suit, and massive bad press. I think the MS execs have probably had enough bad press by now to not even consider something like that.


In theory I suppose they could desolder all the circuit elements, but the cost would be prohibitive so I'm about 100% certain they're not doing it.

 

I'm no computer expert so I'm not going to pretend I am but couldn't the hard-drive and disc drive still be used? What about the motherboard? Does cracked soldering completely destroy the motherboard and in retrospect does a comppletely destroyed motherboard damage the other componenets? Thanks:)

As far as I know it was the motherboard warping that caused the solderig to fail, triggering the RRoD. When they designed the new chipsets I believe they moved stuff around on the motherboard to dissipate the heat more efficiently so old boards are useless.

 

 

Cool.  I was under the impression as it being the other way around.  I thought damaged soldering caused by overheating caused the motherboard to crack.  Thanks again.