# General Xbox Questions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-xbox-questions/222154>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 1, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-xbox-questions/222154 "2004-01-01T20:06:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-xbox-questions/222154/21 "2004-01-03T08:05:42Z")

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Yeah, it’s the fan. The thing is running at 700+ mgH plus the hard drive. It gets hot!

And I’m buying Morrowind next week. I have yet to hear a bad thing said of it. (Waits for Halo2)

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**Author:** ![The\_Crimson\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@The\_Crimson\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Crimson_King)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-xbox-questions/222154/22 "2004-01-03T08:25:32Z")

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I had one small problem with mine. It was a refurbished xbox that suddenly died after one month. I ended up taking it back to eb games and getting another one, this has worked fine for a year so far.  
Neato story Duffer about the MS support. $99 for the service fee is pretty high. Heck thats the price of a new gamecube right there.

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**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-xbox-questions/222154/23 "2004-01-03T16:18:57Z")

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**Neko** - I also play Morrowind and get the “dirty disk” bug with increasing frequency (I’ve also noticed crashes if I try to swap between maps too quickly) so I will try that tip.

But can you explain why sleeping would reduce the file size?

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**Author:** ![Nekosoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@Nekosoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nekosoft)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-xbox-questions/222154/24 "2004-01-03T19:25:13Z")

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It goes back to the “leaving doors open” thing. The game has to store which doors are left open in the save file (as well as position of corpses left on the battlefield, where items have been dropped and such). After three days of game time doors get closed and bodies vanish automatically. So this cleanup would normally take place, but sleeping helps it take place more quickly.

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