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#1 Xolver
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"Y2K9:The day all 30GBZunes ceased to function.

'Microsoft is just squeezing in under the wire to claim the rights to "weirdest tech story of the year."Last night at approximately 2 AM, every 30GB Zune model on the planet crashed... The Zunes reset, powered up, then froze on the loading bar screen, and no conventional method of resetting them appears to work.

This is brought to you courtesy of Microsoft, who has been selling a video game console with a nearly 100% fail rate for three years. The Zune situation is all the more disastrous however seeing as all of them failed at the exact same moment, which people have taken to calling 2K9.'
From the same company that brought you the Red Ring: Y2K9, Death of the Zunes."

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#2 The_Game21x
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Well I guess I'm just special then because I have a 30 GB Zune and it's working just fine.
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#3 black_tempest
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Microsoft and reliability, they go hand in hand :D
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#4 Shafftehr
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Game21x, you obviously must be not from this planet. And the 360 has a nearly 100% failure rate? Which tabloid is this from, again?
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"Y2K9:The day all 30GBZunes ceased to function.

'Microsoft is just squeezing in under the wire to claim the rights to "weirdest tech story of the year."Last night at approximately 2 AM, every 30GB Zune model on the planet crashed... The Zunes reset, powered up, then froze on the loading bar screen, and no conventional method of resetting them appears to work.

This is brought to you courtesy of Microsoft, who has been selling a video game console with a nearly 100% fail rate for three years. The Zune situation is all the more disastrous however seeing as all of them failed at the exact same moment, which people have taken to calling 2K9.'
From the same company that brought you the Red Ring: Y2K9, Death of the Zunes."

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Xolver

Over dramatized article is over dramatized. Plus it has nothing to do with SYSTEMS.

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#6 Disturbed123
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microsoft and reliability....theyre mutually exclusive.
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#7 Lto_thaG
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360=100% failure rate?
seriously now :|
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"Y2K9:The day all 30GBZunes ceased to function.

'Microsoft is just squeezing in under the wire to claim the rights to "weirdest tech story of the year."Last night at approximately 2 AM, every 30GB Zune model on the planet crashed... The Zunes reset, powered up, then froze on the loading bar screen, and no conventional method of resetting them appears to work.

This is brought to you courtesy of Microsoft, who has been selling a video game console with a nearly 100% fail rate for three years. The Zune situation is all the more disastrous however seeing as all of them failed at the exact same moment, which people have taken to calling 2K9.'
From the same company that brought you the Red Ring: Y2K9, Death of the Zunes."

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Posting the wrong thing in System wars? Guess soo... 100%.. amazing my 360 hasn't messed up, guess that ruins your 100% rate.
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#9 Pythagrean
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My 30GiG Zune is working just fine. Something is fishy with this story. Oh and I have a launch 360 and it has not scratched a disk nor have I had a RRoD.
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#10 jonnyt61
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My 30GiG Zune is working just fine. Something is fishy with this story.Pythagrean
It will now. The internal clock messed up because of leap year, apparently, the solution was to let the battery drain, and it'd be working again today. Still, it's a funny story. As far as I've read, every single 30GB Zune will have died, even if only for the night, without fail.
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#11 KungfuKitten
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360=100% failure rate?
seriously now :|Lto_thaG
I think it's a pretty good estimate.
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#12 Vaasman
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"Y2K9:The day all 30GBZunes ceased to function.

'Microsoft is just squeezing in under the wire to claim the rights to "weirdest tech story of the year."Last night at approximately 2 AM, every 30GB Zune model on the planet crashed... The Zunes reset, powered up, then froze on the loading bar screen, and no conventional method of resetting them appears to work.

This is brought to you courtesy of Microsoft, who has been selling a video game console with a nearly 100% fail rate for three years. The Zune situation is all the more disastrous however seeing as all of them failed at the exact same moment, which people have taken to calling 2K9.'
From the same company that brought you the Red Ring: Y2K9, Death of the Zunes."

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No link and yes it is too difficult.

100% 360 fail rate removes all credibility or chance that this isn't completely biased.

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#13 Xolver
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The article is written in joke form, chill about the 100% thing. Anyway, fine, 99% of 30 Gig zunes died. :P
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I also own a 30GB Zune that's working just dandy.
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"Y2K9:The day all 30GBZunes ceased to function.

'Microsoft is just squeezing in under the wire to claim the rights to "weirdest tech story of the year."Last night at approximately 2 AM, every 30GB Zune model on the planet crashed... The Zunes reset, powered up, then froze on the loading bar screen, and no conventional method of resetting them appears to work.

This is brought to you courtesy of Microsoft, who has been selling a video game console with a nearly 100% fail rate for three years. The Zune situation is all the more disastrous however seeing as all of them failed at the exact same moment, which people have taken to calling 2K9.'
From the same company that brought you the Red Ring: Y2K9, Death of the Zunes."

Xolver

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#16 jonnyt61
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To all the people saying their Zune works fine now... It will :| You were most likely asleep, or too drunk to notice, but last night, your Zune would have been unusable. The internal clock on -all- 30GB Zunes bugged out, because of the Leap Year. I'm struggling to believe your Zunes came with unique internal clocks.
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#17 Shafftehr
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[QUOTE="jonnyt61"]To all the people saying their Zune works fine now... It will :| You were most likely asleep, or too drunk to notice, but last night, your Zune would have been unusable. The internal clock on -all- 30GB Zunes bugged out, because of the Leap Year. I'm struggling to believe your Zunes came with unique internal clocks.

If that is the case, this has nothing to do with hardware failure... It has to do with extremely temporary self-correcting glitch. I hardly think that could be used as a dig on reliability - but, here we are in a thread about that.
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#18 Xolver
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[QUOTE="Shafftehr"][QUOTE="jonnyt61"]To all the people saying their Zune works fine now... It will :| You were most likely asleep, or too drunk to notice, but last night, your Zune would have been unusable. The internal clock on -all- 30GB Zunes bugged out, because of the Leap Year. I'm struggling to believe your Zunes came with unique internal clocks.

If that is the case, this has nothing to do with hardware failure... It has to do with extremely temporary self-correcting glitch. I hardly think that could be used as a dig on reliability - but, here we are in a thread about that.

If anyone had to use the Zune from 2AM to whenever, for whatever reason, they couldn't. That's unreliability. I never said it was strictly hardware failure, though every Zune 'hardware' couldn't have been used for a period of time. Since it didn't happen to every other device in the world, then yeah, it does have to do strictly with Microsoft's bad hands.
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[QUOTE="Xolver"] If anyone had to use the Zune from 2AM to whenever, for whatever reason, they couldn't. That's unreliability. I never said it was strictly hardware failure, though every Zune 'hardware' couldn't have been used for a period of time. Since it didn't happen to every other device in the world, then yeah, it does have to do strictly with Microsoft's bad hands.

Mountain out of a mole-hill. If this type of thing, a one-night, several hour outage were what we thought of as "unreliable hardware," we would be *so* much better off than with generations of failing NES's, PS1/PS2's, XBOX 360's, LCDs and HDTVs, exploding batteries, uninstalls wiping hard-drives, etc etc etc. In reality, this "unrelaible hardware" and "Microsoft's bad hands" consisted of something that is in the same ball park as a PC's necessary security update - something that happens all the time as a regular matter of course. Heck, they could have called this a security update, had it done the exact same thing, and there wouldn't be people calling it "unreliable hardware," they'd have completely ignored it. And to mirror my last sentiment, "yet here we are," and I'll repeat... Mountain out of a mole-hill. If this is the Zune's version of reliable hardware, it is a reliable piece of hardware.
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LMFAO at Topic Creator!! Oh wow.. Look into the issue more kid. Software failure on ONE simple driver, and every Zune will fixitself in 24 hours. Mine, well it never froze sooh well :)

Now lets look at all the crap iPod and Apple put us through with there half baked product, eh? Making you pay fora new device toget an update. I think I will stick to my Zune that still gets all the updates and runs a lot more stablethan any iPod I have seen.

Oh by the way, my 360 never failed, so, your little "fact" of the 360 having a 100% failure rate is totally false.

Fail Troll = Fail.

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#21 jrabbit99
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Whatever. If you don't like their products than don't buy them. No one is forcing you to, at least I hope not, and if they are, then the quality of their products should be the least of you worries.
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#22 Xolver
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[QUOTE="Shafftehr"][QUOTE="Xolver"] If anyone had to use the Zune from 2AM to whenever, for whatever reason, they couldn't. That's unreliability. I never said it was strictly hardware failure, though every Zune 'hardware' couldn't have been used for a period of time. Since it didn't happen to every other device in the world, then yeah, it does have to do strictly with Microsoft's bad hands.

Mountain out of a mole-hill. If this type of thing, a one-night, several hour outage were what we thought of as "unreliable hardware," we would be *so* much better off than with generations of failing NES's, PS1/PS2's, XBOX 360's, LCDs and HDTVs, exploding batteries, uninstalls wiping hard-drives, etc etc etc. In reality, this "unrelaible hardware" and "Microsoft's bad hands" consisted of something that is in the same ball park as a PC's necessary security update - something that happens all the time as a regular matter of course. Heck, they could have called this a security update, had it done the exact same thing, and there wouldn't be people calling it "unreliable hardware," they'd have completely ignored it. And to mirror my last sentiment, "yet here we are," and I'll repeat... Mountain out of a mole-hill. If this is the Zune's version of reliable hardware, it is a reliable piece of hardware.

Things that don't work for several minutes could ruin your day, like if it's a diskette holding a PowerPoint presentation, and there are even suits over temporarily malfunctioning products. Zune just lucked out with being in the night, and being a media player. Having said that, YOU'RE the one who's making a "mountain out of a mole-hill." The QUOTED article was just a humorous piece of writing (was from a site that's banned in GS, but I see it's in other places too). You're not supposed to overreact.

LMFAO at Topic Creator!! Oh wow.. Look into the issue more kid. Software failure on ONE simple driver, and every Zune will fixitself in 24 hours. Mine, well it never froze sooh well :)

Now lets look at all the crap iPod and Apple put us through with there half baked product, eh? Making you pay fora new device toget an update. I think I will stick to my Zune that still gets all the updates and runs a lot more stablethan any iPod I have seen.

Oh by the way, my 360 never failed, so, your little "fact" of the 360 having a 100% failure rate is totally false.

Fail Troll = Fail.

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#23 jonnyt61
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LMFAO at Topic Creator!! Oh wow.. Look into the issue more kid. Software failure on ONE simple driver, and every Zune will fixitself in 24 hours. Mine, well it never froze sooh well :)

Now lets look at all the crap iPod and Apple put us through with there half baked product, eh? Making you pay fora new device toget an update. I think I will stick to my Zune that still gets all the updates and runs a lot more stablethan any iPod I have seen.

Oh by the way, my 360 never failed, so, your little "fact" of the 360 having a 100% failure rate is totally false.

Fail Troll = Fail.

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If you own a 30GB Zune, it froze. I don't think is the extreme "hardware failure" that the link explains, but it is amusing. But yes, there's no "My 30GB Zune didn't freeze" because it did. Unless you have somehow acquired a unqiue internal clock on your Zune. As I said earlier, there's every likelihood, you were asleep, too busy to notice, or didn't even try it. But yes, it was a minor software failure. Nothing to rag on about, but amusing none the less. Now, if this were something more serious, such as... nuclear explosive control mechanisms or something, well, we wouldn't be having this thead :P
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[QUOTE="Lto_thaG"]360=100% failure rate?
seriously now :|KungfuKitten
I think it's a pretty good estimate.

Actually MS did announce that every 360 was made with faulty hardware. THAT, would make the 360 have 100% failure. Im on #4 since launch...4/4=100% in my book

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#26 WilliamRLBaker
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time to end this off topic thread i for some reason am taking part in.

""The problem was isolated within 5 hours that 30 gig zunes 1st generation mind you had a problem with a clock driver exclusive to 1st gen 30 gig zunes that could not handle the extra leap year seconds which thus caused them to fail, the fix came out within an hour after the problem was isolated one simply had to let his or her zune run out of power then recharge it after 7 am today and the internal clock of the 30 gig zune would reset to the correct second:minute:hour:day:week:month:year.

http://www.zune.net/en-us/support/zune30.htm""

P.S: an driver update is currently in creation to fix the problem pernamently when another leap year comes around in 4 years or so.

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#27 TheKingandIII
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My god, why would someone own such vast ammounts of fail.....