Microsoft Mum About What's Wrong With Xbox 360s
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) won't say what went wrong inside of its Xbox 360 video game consoles that could lead to $1 billion in repairs, but bloggers and their online readers seem to have their own answer: Heat stroke.
Frustrated Xbox 360 gamers have been going to blogs and forums to swap horror stories and voodoo-like solutions for problems with the consoles, which first went on sale in November 2005.
Microsoft has called the seizures "general hardware failures," while some users have referred to a "red ring of death," for the three LEDs that light up on the console when a serious problem has occurred.
