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Well My xbox went pop about a month or 2 ago, it would display artifacts on the screen and then freeze but typical sods law it wouldn’t RROD.

(Actually I also got home to an unhappy housemate who’s 360 has just died refusing to output any video, his is one of the newer one with HDMI, although it’s not displaying an RROD We suspend the GPU has fried, as to if Microsoft will fix his for free who knows )

Oh and it’s just over 3 years old to boot so that’s 2 reasons why Microsoft probably wouldn’t fix it for free

Decided to give one of those X-CLAMP kits a try from ebay (I’ll dig the seller details out later if someone wants them), pulled the thing apart, changed the x-clamps for some nice bolts and put it back together…Turned it on and RROD, damn i’d killed it.  I assumed that perhaps i’d overtightened the retaining bolts on the heatsink.

For some reason… Probably some bizzare idea that it would magically fix itself I left the thing running on the RROD for a couple of minutes then restarted it, Surprisingly it came back to life.

Early days yet as i’ve only run it for about 30minutes or so, but it’s possible I didn’t kill it after all   Oh and no more artefacts/lockups during those 30minutes either (where as before it would start displaying graphical artefacts after about 1 minute and lockup with the first 5)

Only problem is I don’t think i put it together quite right, or I misaligned something ever so slightly as the top of the front (silvery) cover on the dvd tray is rubbing on the plastic front panel for the 360 stopping the drive from ejecting properly…  Although I suspect that won’t take to much effort to fix.

Someone suggested that I should start bloggin, I have no idea WHY anyone would want to read the crap I write, but hey bandwith and diskspace are cheap enough so what the hell…

Why here?

Well many years ago this is a very (Basic) site that had a few dragon pictures on, Most of them were pretty crap and just stuff that seemed to be available in millions of places on the internet so they got added to the gallery.

I did have a few rather decent pictures, for which I’d gone to the trouble of gaining the artists conceit and these had their own pages, but the design of the site itself was to put it bluntly woefull, I’m not a coder by nature and the only thing I really knew how to do was IFrames *shudders* also I was young then… (Is that an excuse?)

I took the site down probably almost 2 years ago with a nice V3 “coming soon” message, however soon never came, and thesedays I really don’t have time to put the effort into getting permissions to put pics of various dragons up.

That and since then deviantart came along and is a very large repository for dragon images

I keep the domain though, as It’s still used for some stuff.

I also managed to get the original domain firebreathingdragon.co.uk back which I lost when changing hosts (They wanted £25 to renew it, at the time it wasn’t worth that to me, the rule there is not to register your domain through your host…. That is of course unless you happen to be your host, then you might have problems not involving your host in the registration proccess.

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