Xbox360 Xbox 360 burns house down

[Luer]

An Xbox 360 has allegedly caused over $100,000 (£50,000/€62,000) worth of damage to an US gamer’s house, after the console’s power brick caught fire.



Firefighters called to the blaze in Little Rock, Arkansas told local reporters that the console’s power brick was the blaze's cause. The console owner's house has been reduced to a near shack-like state following the fire, local TV station THV reports.

Although the gamer wasn’t at home when the fire broke out, a fire department spokesman said the console’s power brick was stored on one side and close to a wall – which he claimed could exacerbate potential fire risks.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/21/arkansas_xbox_360_fire/

 

[Biermensch]

:o:o:o

zum glück trenne ich meine technischen geräte immer vom netz (abschaltbare steckdose ftw) bevor ich das haus verlasse.

 

[Maverick55]

Ich beneide den Typen. Der muss nie wieder arbeiten

 

[Luer]

Zum Glück habe ich ne Mehrfachsteckdose, schalte die immer nach dem Spielen aus.

Habe aber auch ein Netzteil der 2. Revision, aber ich muss mir mal die Position angucken.

 

[Biermensch]

Ich beneide den Typen. Der muss nie wieder arbeiten

auch wieder war

 

[Scrat]

Und hier die ganze Geschichte, oder wie man auch sagen könnte Dummheit stirbt nicht:

We start with Carl Olson of Little Rock. I would call him a gamer but I'm not sure what game he was playing, as he tells us that his 360 had already gone into Rings O' Death mode. Maybe he was enjoying 30 seconds of startup screens, I don't know.

Anyway, instead of sending his bricked 360 in to be replaced, he left it plugged in, apparently. I thought the super-scorchy power supply issues were limited to the original Xbox only. But this guy's 360 power unit melted down and barbecued his house.

Now, I don't think anyone's home burning (to the tune of $10K in damage, insert joke about Arkansas property values here) is anything to treat flip. But the fire department called this guy out for not giving his console and the power supply enough space to dissipate heat. Add to that the fact that it was, by his own admission, smoked by RRoD and — still turned on? Can a power supply connected to a machine turned off still produce that much heat? I have no idea what to make of this.

Oh, and the Arkansas TV station reporting on this helpfully links to the original Xbox power supply recall of 2003. And we know he's playing a 360, not the original by the photos of his charred 360 titles. (Looks like MLB 2K6. So that's another $1.40 on top of the damages.)

Tons of sites are reporting this, Joystiq included, but my audit trail is

http://kotaku.com/381779/360-power-supply-blamed-in-strange-fire

 

[DarthSol]

Das ist einer der Gründe warum ich immer die Steckdosenleiste ausschalte, auch wenn ich noch vorhaben sollte, am selben Tag nochmal zu spielen.