Should I be worried? XBLive & Overheating?

Okay, so I tried out XBLive a couple of nights ago (you know, using one of those 2-month trials) and started playing Star Wars Battlefront. About 5 minutes into a game (a connection rampant with lag, by the way), the game locked up. When I turned it off and booted back up to evox, the temp reading was at about 53 degrees Celsius. My system usually runs at about 49 degrees Celsius (having upped the fan speed to 65%). She (yes, my xbox is a "she") runs fine now and I played some other game for about 30 minutes and checked the temp again; it was about 49 degrees as normal.

So, I suspect overheating caused my crash, but what caused the overheating? XBLive? Sporadic lag? Highly populated game (the game was near full at 22(?) people)?

Doesn't XB employ an overtemp failsafe? An automatic power-down before fatal overheating?

Should I be worried? I'm just a little paranoid because I'm fairly sure I fried my first system.

At any rate, I guess I won't be going on-line with Halo 2 anymore...

[Quall999]

Your temp should be fine. Mine is usually at 126/127F, which is rouphly 53C, so yours is about the same as mine (upped the fan speed too).

I haven't had any problems. Yes though, the xbox usually shuts down when overheated, however, it doesn't neccessarily protect against fried chips.

Thanks Quall.

I keep telling myself that games sometimes just glitch. I worked in the industry enough to know that not every bug gets cleaned up before it goes out, but you know how it is; when something has gone wrong before (a burned out xbox) there's a tendency to suspect the worst when something out of the ordinary happens.

I'm checking boards and found incidences where some box temps are around 147 degrees F (just about 64 degrees C). Still...

Anybody else use XBLive and had problems?

[ma2004ma81]

what mod you using...chip that lets you enter xbl or just a TSOP mod...?


IF TSOP then it could have frozen up because it detected the mod and maybe banned you EEPROM(sp?) from live. Try going on live again and see if you can still connect to servers

[Quall999]

whoa monkeyshare, that question blew over my head. Were you using a chip on xbox live? Hopefully not...

Ah.

I have an X2.3b Lite [+] with a switch. The mod was disabled, booted straight into the proper MS Bios and MS Dash (titled xboxdash.xbe), and a locked hard drive. I hope I covered all my bases. I'm not aware of any other precautions against banning; is there more?

Now let's say I somehow did get banned with this particular box (and detection & banning would have occured at login, correct?)? If I had another unmod'd box, could I use my account with it?

By the way Quall, I bought a little wire rack-like thing (like a letter-paper sized wire basket) and set my box on top, just to get open air on the underside too. My temps are stable at 47-48 C after 2 hours of gaming. Just a thought.

[Quall999]

Well, all x-ecuter bios 4981 and newer have an "xbox live disabler" patch. Basically, it stops xbox live from accessing the internet. I don't know specifically how though, since I didn't research it at all. Never the less, that is not something to rely on (as they put it), it is just a protective measure which can still fail (although I haven't heard of it stop working yet).

Also, since xbl only banneds the xbox's eeprom, you can still use the account on another xbox. Alternatively, you can get a new eeprom for the banned xbox and have it live enabled once again.

[ma2004ma81]

I've got my box modded with a TSOP mod so if you are actually banned (You r chip by the sound of it will work online and all) I may be able to give you my eeprom so you can still use live

No use me having it...Plus adsl/dsl connections in New Zealand are only like 256k residential and soon to be 2mb/192k in like 2 months

[sevi]

Hey, how did you guys up your fan speed? Did you rewire the fans ground wire to the xbox mobo or is there a setting in one of the dashboards? Was thinking about rewiring my fan as per the tute on xbox scene but if there is an easier way would like to try that first.
Cheers.

[Quall999]

It can be configured in the bios. Use something like XBtool to edit bios. I believe th setting it is located in the bottem left of that program. (x2_4983 is encrypted and not supported).

I tried out another online game for a few minutes (still worried that my system might overheat), but apperantly I am not banned since I was able to login and play a few rounds.