Wed Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on November 23, 2005 at 2:50:35 PM
Turn that old computer back into something usable: »http://www.aselabs.com/articles.php?id=185
Xbox 360 problems. Crashes, hard freezes. I thought consoles were supposed to be correct on the first shot, unlike PC gaming
.
Japanese probe does land on asteroid.
Sourth Korea delays Microsoft antitrust decision.
Xbox 360 problems. Crashes, hard freezes. I thought consoles were supposed to be correct on the first shot, unlike PC gaming
.Quote
Jsgongwon, one of our forum members, reported that his newly bought Xbox 360 keeps crashing while playing Project Gotham Racing 3 in single player mode. He's playing with the default settings, and apparently his Xbox crashes even before the end of the first lap. Crashes on Xbox Live and on startup occur too. He included screenshots of the crashed Xbox 360 (see below - more pictures on flickr.com) and a video of the crash here(9MB) (mirror: here(2MB XviD))
A quick look on our forums (more and more) seems to indicate he's not the only one. Several of our members seems to get crashing 360s. It doesn't seem to be related to a specific game, as we get reports of the Xbox 360 crashing with several games. And it's not all the same Error-number either (E79, E74, E64, real crashes, ...).
Japanese probe does land on asteroid.
Quote
A Japanese probe on a mission to bring back the first rock samples from an asteroid landed briefly on its target on Sunday but did not drop the equipment for collecting surface material, Kyodo news reported on Wednesday. Scientists from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) had said earlier the unmanned probe failed to touch down on Itokawa, nearly 300 million km (186 million miles) from earth.
Sourth Korea delays Microsoft antitrust decision.
Quote
The nation's fair trade commission began its investigation in 2001 when Daum Communications, South Korea's top Internet portal, complained that Microsoft had breached antitrust rules by incorporating its Internet Messenger and Media Player services into the Windows operating system. Despite Microsoft reaching a $30 million settlement with Daum over the antitrust allegations in early November, the commission has said it will rule on the case.