PSN outage?

[pureinsanity]

I heard once that the Elite 360 models don't suffer the RROD like the basic models. Don't know if that is accurate or not, but might be worth looking into prior to buying one.

Anybody confirm or deny this?

Yup. The changed the internal designs that stopped the board from flexing when heated up. Well that is what I was told by some Xbox fanatics when I bought mine.

[pureinsanity]

So...for $175 I can get the PS3, 1 controller and Black Ops?

I might be talking to you. I have two controllers though

[Shack]

It has but nothing like this. I watched the timeline of events on this and pretty funny someone did it but no one wants to take the blame so that jtag/jail break guy I think is going to get all the blame, or no one until the FBI figures out a traceable trail of evidence.

[Shack]

If anyone cares here is PSN drama timeline, step by step.

[Shack]

Yup. The changed the internal designs that stopped the board from flexing when heated up. Well that is what I was told by some Xbox fanatics when I bought mine.

There was a multitude of issues that caused the red ring of death and a couple fixes during late 2009 and early 2010 before the release of the slim model to prevent the light from coming on. Basically the RRoD is just a diag. alert from the console:

Quote:

XBOX 360 ERROR LIGHTS EXPLAINED

January 14th, 2011 |

Do you have something less than 4 green lights on the power button of your beloved Xbox?

Not sure what all of those lights mean? Here’s an easy-to-understand summary of all of the different error codes. In a follow-up post, we’ll talk about what you can do about them, if anything.

The green power light is ringed by 4 two-color LED lights – either green or red. As you can probably guess, GREEN=GOOD, RED = “OH [PoorWordUsage]”. These four lights are identified by their quadrant. Here are the different quadrants:

Quadrant 1 (Q1) = Upper Left

Quadrant 2 (Q2) = Upper Right

Quadrant 3 (Q3) = Lower Left

Quadrant 4 (Q4) = Lower Right

You basically go left to right, top to bottom. If you lay it out in a grid, it looks like this:

Q1 Q2

Q3 Q4

Hardware Failure = When there is a hardware failure, the light in quadrant 4 (Q4) will flash with an ominous red color. There will also be an error code displayed on your screen, such as the infamous E74 error.

Overheating = If your Xbox gets too hot, the console will shut down to prevent damage (this is what should happen in theory, anyway) while the fans will continue to run and cool the unit. The lights in Quadrant 1 and Quadrant 3 (Q1+Q3)will flash until the console has cooled down. Make sure you have good airflow through your unit and that nothing is causing the system to overheat.

General Hardware Failure = When the system has a ‘general failure’, lights Q1, Q3 and Q4 will flash red… this is similar to the ‘Hardware Failure’ above, however there may not be an error code displayed on the screen.

AV Cable Error = When the AV Cable is not connected properly OR there is a serious error, all four lights will flash red. Good times.

Most common were the graphics processors unit failing due the GPU's heat-sink being too small and becoming filthy or the main power supply soldered connection cracking or coming loose and cutting power out with minor vibrations caused by the DVD player. It could be a number of reasons but I know MS extended GPU warranty in Spring of 2009 for previous models to 3 years instead of just 1 year. I wish they would just go liquid cooled and be done with it, well besides having to perform a coolant flush every 500 hours of use.

[pureinsanity]

You forgot to mention the MAIN reason for the RRoD. Microsofts infamous "X" clip which helped hold the heat sink to the mother board. When it got hot that pressure from the X clip caused the mother board to bind. The easy fix was to remove it and mount the the heat sink to the case and you were good to go.

[CJH]

In a strange turn of events, Anonymous was hacked:

By Matt Liebowitz

updated 1 hour 15 minutes ago

Armed with courage and the arrogance of youth, a teenage hacker has taken over the message boards belonging to the anti-censorship hacking collective known as Anonymous.

In the past year, the AnonOps message boards have been the jumping-off point for several of Anonymous' most high-profile hacking campaigns, including attacks on government websites in Egypt, Iran, New Zealand and Tunisia, as well as against Sony, Bank of America, numerous WikiLeaks detractors and the hateful Westboro Baptist Church.

Now, however, the tables have been turned.

A letter on AnonOps.in, the group's temporarily official channel, reads: "We would STRONGLY ADVISE all users to STAY AWAY from AnonOps.net and AnonOps.ru and they should be considered COMPROMISED. Using or connecting to any service on those addresses may put your computer, and by extension your person, at risk."

AnonOps pins the attacks on "Ryan," a former administrator for the message boards, who, the letter says, grew tired of the "leaderless command structure that AnonOps Network Admins use."

After stealing the IP addresses of hundreds of the message boards' users, Ryan launched denial-of-service attacks against AnonOps.ru and AnonOps.net. While the .ru message board is currently offline, the hacker replaced the .net board with a page called "LOL ANONOPS DEAD," and listed the hundreds of hijacked IP addresses.

In keeping with Anonymous' impressive track record of publicly shaming its opponents, the mysterious Ryan may have already been identified.

The British technology HSOforum Thinq captured a screenshot of a revenge attack carried out by Anonymous members that lists Ryan Cleary, a British teen thought to be between 17 and 19 years old, as the AnonOps hacker. The screenshot also includes Cleary's physical, email and IP addresses and home and mobile phone numbers.

[zamboni]

You think living in your parents basement, these guys would find better things to do with their time

[spearchucker]

You think living in your parents basement, these guys would find better things to do with their time

I can see them with the PC on a card table, sitting on a folding chair, and wearing a Star Trek outfit. Like I said earlier, if some woman would have said "yes" a few years ago it would have been a different story. If these idiots would put their talent to a good use they could make some money and move out of the basement. This is costing Sony and its developers tons of cash.

[pureinsanity]

You think living in your parents basement, these guys would find better things to do with their time

I was living in my parents basement playing cod Good thing that was only a short period of time and now I have an Xbox. Imagine if I was stuck living in my parents basement with a non working PS3!

[CJH]

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I can see them with the PC on a card table, sitting on a folding chair, and wearing a Star Trek outfit. Like I said earlier, if some woman would have said "yes" a few years ago it would have been a different story. If these idiots would put their talent to a good use they could make some money and move out of the basement. This is costing Sony and its developers tons of cash.

[pureinsanity]

The funny thing is it applies to half the members posting on here lol

[CJH]

I wouldn't doubt that one bit!!

BTW, Sony supposedly thwarted a third attack this weekend, and hasn't detected any additional intrusions or damage. They are being extra cautious moving forward (deploying the new Network), since the attacks have continued.

[LMITOUT]

Which Tuesday?

[Juan Grande]

Not that he's a Sony insider or anything, but Paul Charchian reported that the PSN should be back on-line by May 31st and by that point the outage will have cost Sony $1.25 billion. Ouch.

[TurnUpTheFishing]

Not that he's a Sony insider or anything, but Paul Charchian reported that the PSN should be back on-line by May 31st and by that point the outage will have cost Sony $1.25 billion. Ouch.

Well I would hope they would have it up by the end of the month. I expect a free COD map pack for sticking with this company and not getting a 360, yet....

[spearchucker]

I read something that sounded like the mulitplayer capabilities would be up and running maybe by the end of this week, but the Playstation Store and other stuff might take longer.

[pureinsanity]

Speak of the devil! An internet tough guy posted right after my comment CJH

[CJH]

LOL!

[zamboni]

I read online the outage costs Sony $150,000 per day.

[spearchucker]

I read online the outage costs Sony $150,000 per day.

There are lots game companies that are selling content on the PSN that are loosing money as well so the effect goes beyond Sony.

[zamboni]

Yep, and that might result in some lawsuits, and I don't blame them

[Bryce]

How you liking the new system Zamboni? Anyone else in your clan make the switch? Gonna try and make the switch this weekend. Got stuck down here amongst the cow patties for work with no close place to buy the new xbox. Maybe get out of here a bit early tomorrow and try to get it live while wifey is at the Chicago concert. Trans Siberian Orchestra on Saturday so limited play time. Zamboni tag or Mr tag? Will look you up if I get on.

[EBass]

from geek dot com (nice name)

PSN has begun to come back online, but access to it is currently restricted to developers, and it’s sporadic at best.

The news comes by way of NeoGAF with user Kagari who heard from a quality assurance tester at a game developer that access was being granted again. On its own that would be speculative confirmation that Sony is turning things back on, but Kagari has also confirmed with several other developers that access is now available, but it wouldn’t be what you call reliable.

If you’ve ever suffered a major outage at a HSOforum or company network, you know that when it first starts working again access is less than perfect. However, within a few hours or over the course of a day things get back to normal.

Can we expect the same for PSN? We’d like to think so and within a few days developers should be enjoying full access. That also bodes well for the user-facing side to start coming back online hopefully early next week.

The only date we have to work on is the end of this month when Sony’s Kaz Hirai stated things should be working again. But we also know that sections of the network are meant to be back online much sooner than that. Now it looks likely to be next week if this information coming from game developers is correct.

[CJH]

BTW a SQaure Enix/Eidos (game developer) was hacked as well. Data and personal info was stolen, however they are claiming CC weren't.