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I was playing SHOOTER hddvd on my xbox360, and it started stuttering. The I go the 3 rrod. NO problem, MS has picked it up. Anyway, I decided to use the hddvd drive on my pc (Pentium 4 3.06 HT cpu w 4Gb ram). I started watching shooter. After 5 minutes it started stuttering....Then my pc caught fire (I kid you not). I whipped the plug out, and sorted it out.

So......

Is Shooter the problem? Is it encoded to a rwally high standard? Why did it cause my 360 AND my pc to overheat? Is it the HDDVD (I think it isn't as I've watched a few films with it).

I've googled and come up with nowt, so now I'm throwing it at you lot for some ideas.

In the meantime, if anyone wants to buy shooter on hddvd, make me an offer :)

Oh and now I'm posting this from my new quadcore 6700 with 4gb of ram :)....about time really :)

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What part caught fire? I've had a 6600GT catch fire back in the day.. My PSU protection triggered, i unplugged it to override it and powered it back on and the card caught fire :p

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Heh, it's not the movie. The Xbox 360 RROD was probably just bad luck (it happens), and the PC problem might be related to a bad power supply. There's no way the movie itself could cause the issues you're referencing.

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Hehe, hard luck mate, **** happens, but I dont think it was the film directly which caused it. Though I wouldnt touch it with a 10 foot barge pole after hearing that!

Something tells me you probably wont be very believable if you try to take the movie back, saying "it killed my xbox and then my pc caught fire". But let me know how you get on!

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Hehe, hard luck mate, **** happens, but I dont think it was the film directly which caused it. Though I wouldnt touch it with a 10 foot barge pole after hearing that!

Something tells me you probably wont be very believable if you try to take the movie back, saying "it killed my xbox and then my pc caught fire". But let me know how you get on!

haha test it on a mates drive ;)...

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Heh, it's not the movie. The Xbox 360 RROD was probably just bad luck (it happens), and the PC problem might be related to a bad power supply. There's no way the movie itself could cause the issues you're referencing.

The PSU is still ok.

The graphics card is a BFG 7950 GT OC (nvidia) w 512Mb Ram

The heatsink on the motherboard chip is what overheated.

I could reuse everything except the mobo.

I'm just wondering if Shooter is a very intensive HDDVD. It's too much of a coincidence that it killed both my hardware :(

Googling turns up nothing (probably because 'shooter' refers to 'first person shooters' etc.

When I called it into MS, they did ask me what film I was playing at the time (which I thought was odd), but didn't elaborate any further.

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The PSU is still ok.

The graphics card is a BFG 7950 GT OC (nvidia) w 512Mb Ram

The heatsink on the motherboard chip is what overheated.

I could reuse everything except the mobo.

I'm just wondering if Shooter is a very intensive HDDVD. It's too much of a coincidence that it killed both my hardware :(

Googling turns up nothing (probably because 'shooter' refers to 'first person shooters' etc.

When I called it into MS, they did ask me what film I was playing at the time (which I thought was odd), but didn't elaborate any further.

They always ask, they ask what game I was playing whenever my Xbox had problems. Its a standard thing.

Rather unfortunate you have been suffering these problems but I highly doubt it was the film.

Hope you get a fixed Xbox 360 quickly (Y)

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I think the RIAA did it to you!!! DANG Government conspiracy to stop us from using illegal copies!!! BURN BABY BURN!!

j/k thats some pretty bad luck mate.

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xbox is prone to RROD, thats just a fact of life :( im on my second one. and your motherboard going as well during the same incident? maybe it was on its way out, and the film (like a game) made your pc work and it pushed it over the edge.

bet your too scared to try it on new system :p LoL

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Wow. That must be one badass movie.

LOL

Ya I bet that movie must be some badass movie to fry not only your Xbox360, but also your computer!

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Its the wahlberg effect.

You really need to test the drive with another system, if it does it again you have a news story!

Good thing you didnt make it the to the end of the film. I've heard if you watch the HDDVD ending the world collapses in on itself, or something.

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your PC caught fire? actual fire? flames? if so, that's insane. how it's working at all now is beyond me. and Shooter was a disappointing movie i thought, but not bad enough to destroy your hardware like that.

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your PC caught fire? actual fire? flames? if so, that's insane. how it's working at all now is beyond me. and Shooter was a disappointing movie i thought, but not bad enough to destroy your hardware like that.

yeah, actual flames. It was the mobo that over heated. It's working now, as I ahve replaced it with new stuff, so in effect, it still aint working, .... if you get me drift...lol

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I was playing SHOOTER hddvd on my xbox360, and it started stuttering. The I go the 3 rrod. NO problem, MS has picked it up. Anyway, I decided to use the hddvd drive on my pc (Pentium 4 3.06 HT cpu w 4Gb ram). I started watching shooter. After 5 minutes it started stuttering....Then my pc caught fire (I kid you not). I whipped the plug out, and sorted it out.

So......

Is Shooter the problem? Is it encoded to a rwally high standard? Why did it cause my 360 AND my pc to overheat? Is it the HDDVD (I think it isn't as I've watched a few films with it).

I've googled and come up with nowt, so now I'm throwing it at you lot for some ideas.

In the meantime, if anyone wants to buy shooter on hddvd, make me an offer :)

Oh and now I'm posting this from my new quadcore 6700 with 4gb of ram :)....about time really :)

Cool film, crap luck :(

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Wow thats pretty crazy...I presume its the drive. Test it on another pc or friends haha so you can burn their mobo!!

No it can't be the drive as I have watched quite a few films on it.

Goodfellas, The Big Lebowski, the HDScape Sampler, King Kong....

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maybe decoding the hd -dvd on a p4 was too cpu intensive and caused your lowly p4 to overheat ?

Well that's what I think, but it doesn't explain the 360.

The 360 I had was a later model as it had HDMI (which I was using). I'm contemplating calling Microsoft about this issue, but I think they might fob me off as they would state the HDDVD player isn't supported on pcs.

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