At The Console Doctor, our mission is to get you back in the game as soon as possible.
3 Red Lights – The three red lights usually referred to as
the red ring of death or RROD are an indication of hardware
failure. If you own an XBOX you have most certainly
heard of the red ring of death and probably live in fear of
getting it. The good news is even if you get it, it
does not necessarily mean the death of your XBOX.
Most of the time these types of hardware failures are caused
by overheating. If your console is getting too hot it
can wreak havoc on it and actually cause the GPU and CPU to
lose contact. Once this happens your XBOX will not
work until it is repaired.
Scaler Chip Burn Out – This is another big problem with the
XBOX consoles. Scaler chip burnout is indicated by a
single red ring on the console box. The scaler chip
deals with AV cable input and the signal that goes to your
console. This problem is also fixable but like with
the three red lights you are not going to be gaming until
you get it done.
DVD Driver Error – This one will also put you out of
commission. Basically what happens is that the
connectors in the back of the DVD drive have absorbed too
much heat. This causes your DVD drive to stop
functioning which means it cannot read discs at all which
makes it impossible to play games or watch movies.
Yellow Light of Death
is caused by overheating of the mother board.
We reflow the motherboard and apply new thermal
compound to the heat sinks.
The reflow process does not use any parts and you
will lose none of your data.
At time we are required to use our patent pending
professional reballing process.
The blinking red light is the same
problem known as Yellow Light of Death (YLOD) but not
always. All
game discs found inside consoles will be returned with the
console. Thank
you for choosing the Console Doctor.
Disc read problems.
Sometimes the PlayStation 3 has problems reading
discs when you insert them.
Games and movie discs constantly freeze or does the
loading icon in the top-right of the screen rotate
endlessly.
Error codes 80010514 or 80029906 will begin to occur.
A blu ray laser replacement will fix the problem
permanently.
One common Nintendo Wii error is the
unresponsive control because of bright light interference.
You need to consider the fact that Nintendo Wii will allow
you to play with games with a remote control. Now, if the
gaming console is unable to respond to the commands you do
when you use the remote control, it is most probably because
of bright lights or certain lights that may interfere with
the signal that the remote control sends to the gaming
console.
The reason for this problem is that
the sensor bar in the Wii gaming console where its
primary function is to detect any changes in position of the
remote control will get interfered with specific lighting,
particularly bright lights. Now, in order to avoid
experiencing this problem, you might want to play your
Nintendo Wii in a dimly lit room. This will allow better
gaming experience as you will never experience unresponsive
gaming console to the controller due to bright
lights.
The second problem that most
people experience when playing with Nintendo Wii is crashing
or slowing down of performance. Usually, this
problem occurs after about 10 hours of straight game play.
It is believed that the cause of this problem is the
overheating of the processor or the whole component inside
the gaming console. To solve this problem, you may want to
turn off your Wii and let it cool down for about 10 minutes
and turn it on again. Usually, doing this will solve the
problem but if you want to prevent experiencing this kind of
problem again, you may want to make sure that the warm air
trapped inside the gaming console is able to escape by
making sure that the fans are working properly.
Although this problem poses a concern
to Wii gamers, you will see that only a fraction of gamers
who plays more than 10 hours straight with their Nintendo
Wii experiences this kind of problem. So, all in all, this
problem isn't a very big deal.
These are the common problems that you
may experience while playing with Nintendo Wii. With this
knowledge, you can be sure that you will be able to prevent
experiencing these problems.