How To Fix A Xbox 360 If It Wont Turn On

(Pocket-lint) - The Xbox 360 has been around for some fourth dimension now, then following the revamp from Sony of its PS3, it'due south only natural that Microsoft would want to make it on the re-invigorating action for its console, boosting sales and fixing a couple of issues along the manner. In steps the new Microsoft Xbox 360, or equally some call it the Xbox 360 Slim or every bit the name on the dorsum of the panel itself refers to it, the Xbox 360 Southward.

Earlier nosotros talk almost the new slim console, it's probably worth merely noting what you arrive the box. In short you become virtually cypher that isn't core to the unit. Yes, there is the panel, the ability pack, a controller and a headset, just there is no fashion of actually connecting it to your TV. You'll need to bring the HDMI cable yourself.

Now that we've got that out of the way the get-go thing y'all'll notice near the new console is the size. As you might await, it'due south now considerably smaller. Not Nintendo Wii small-scale, but reduced enough that at the Microsoft press conference at E3 in Los Angeles, Microsoft hid the new Xbox 360 inside the old model before the large reveal. Incidentally the same trick Sony performed when it launched the slimline PlayStation 2.

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The new Xbox 360 Due south also brings with it a new sleeky design that is even more masculine than the previous matte outings. There is nothing family friendly almost this device when information technology comes to looks, strange considering Microsoft's gunning for a family unit audience with the Kinect later this yr, but that doesn't hateful it looks awful. Out are the rather large bulbous edges; in are stark lines, hard edges and enough of grills.

Part of the new design is now a very big fan grill on the top (when laid apartment), plus two grills/vents that engulf both sides. It's all to cease it over-heating you see - something previous models were prone to. Merely while that ways it is considerably quieter, and we mean quiet enough that y'all tin have it on in the background without y'all noticing, it also means that you tin can't put annihilation else on summit of information technology like y'all could with the original design (yes that's what probably caused the overheating in the kickoff place).

While Sony opted for a curved tiptop with the PS3, Microsoft has gone for a flat design with air vents, and information technology is something you should account for in your Television receiver stand if space is tight.

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The pattern has also seen the forepart of the console cleaned upwardly as well. The IR receiver has been hidden behind the casing, while the memory unit slots are gone altogether. You still, however, go two frontwards facing (subconscious) USB sockets for connecting things like USB storage drives.

For those really into playing spot the difference, the DVD eject button has shrunk and become touch sensitive, while the On switch is now sliver rather than the same color. Gone too is the Scarlet Ring Of Death (RROD) warning sign, replaced instead with the red centre of doom.

Around the back and there is enough of change besides. Microsoft has added an Optical S/PDIF socket for audio buffs, ii farther USB sockets bringing the rear total to three and the overall panel total to five, and a dedicated AUX socket to ability Kinect for Xbox 360 when it becomes available later this twelvemonth.

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Besides that there is an AV socket, an HDMI socket for connecting to your TV, Ethernet and of course the ability. There is now as well a Kensington lock and then you can commodities it to something rather than having it nicked when someone comes to burgle your house.

As before the hard drive is fully replaceable and rather than a big clunky affair sticking out of the side (as with the Xbox 360 Aristocracy) information technology'due south now neatly tucked away out of sight backside one of the side vents in its own caddy; accessing it is very easy. The final exterior change is the ability brick; and aye information technology's still a brick, which you could easily fend off evil foes with, only now around half the size.

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Inside, Microsoft hasn't changed the graphical ability, the processor power or much else for that matter although it has added Wi-Fi and increased the storage. For the first time the Xbox 360 console won't require a network cable set up to use behind your TV, neither will you have to go out and purchase a wireless dongle for another £sixty.

And the wireless connection is no slouch either, as you'll get wireless b/yard/due north support, which meant that nosotros enjoyed fast downloads (patently based on your connection speed) via Xbox Live just equally if we were connected via a wire.

In our tests playing a number of games online and downloading content via Marketplace, we were more than than happy with the performance the wireless connectivity brought. And the lack of cabling meant that for the commencement time (we've never bought the wireless dongle out of principle) we could play from our bed.

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Also new is the default storage the Xbox 360 Due south comes with. You now get 250GB of storage at your disposal. That'due south a lot of saved games, or movies and adding new content is very easy thanks to the arrangement now supporting any old USB storage drive you've got, rather than just Microsoft-branded options.

Of course it's non all add together, add together, add together; Microsoft has nonetheless left out a Blu-ray player for high definition videos other than those that you've downloaded, and the DVD playback quality nevertheless isn't not bad when compared to what the PS3 or other regular DVD players are capable of through upscaling. If you're buying this as an entertainment hub look to have to download to savour decent quality movies.

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If this is going to exist your first Xbox 360 and then migrating data isn't something you lot are going to have to worry about, but for those looking to upgrade from an Xbox 360 Elite and then it'south worth thinking most. At that place are a couple of ways to do this: mainly via Microsoft's Hard Drive Transfer Cablevision, or the cheaper option of a USB storage drive you might accept lying around.

While the USB drive selection is cheap, unless y'all've got a large drive you'll exist there for some fourth dimension copying the information beyond. The simplest way by far is to use the Hard Drive Transfer Cable. Whip out the drive from your erstwhile Xbox 360, plug it into the cable and and so to your new console via one of those five USB sockets. 30 seconds later you are done. It's well worth the £15.

In one case you've got everything set upward, and your data transferred it's time to play. Turning on the console y'all'll detect no existent deviation, the software interface is the same, the gaming experience is the same, the games you've played will yet play. Remember this is just a hardware refresh rather than an overhaul of how the Xbox 360 works.

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Writing by Stuart Miles.