System Woes

To continue on the random tangent I'm on apparently this week with games.
My roomies have this Xbox One
That they've been using to play Skyrim for the past little while.
Only recently the past few days or so.
After very limited time playing. 
Like 30 minutes....
The Xbox One has been randomly shutting off.
Like mid play.

Which is frustrating to the roomies. 
Since you can lose a lot of progress if you haven't saved for a bit when the machine randomly kicks off.

And at first they thought it was just like...a build up of dust.
But clearing off the machine, checking wires, moving the Xbox One to a different location near the TV....

All didn't solve the issue.
Which isn't good. 
As the roomies really like playing their games on it.

But the impressive thing...is how much they can figure out from just...like googling things.
"Oh hey I don't know how to do this. Let's see if someone on the internet has also had this problem and if there's a solution."
It's kinda cool how a few minutes of scrolling can tell you all the things lol. 

They use it a lot of figure out how the game is supposed to be going or how to find certain things they're struggling to find.

Which again, very cool.

But after some research.
The roomies discovered that it's possible that the model of Xbox One they got might have a glitch in the motherboard that was causing it to randomly shut off. 

It's apparently been a rather common occurrence in the model that they had.

Luckily for them though, their gaming system was still under warranty (yay for buying that) 
And after calling the store and such, they were like "Yah, just bring it in we've had a lot of issues with that model and such." 

So they went to the game store to get a replacement....
Only to discover that the store was out of stock on that model.
So if they wanted the same one...the store would need to order it and ship it to them.
BUT
Because it's known that this model was having issues.
The people at the store were like "You might as well just buy this newer version which doesn't have the motherboard issue and it comes with a free game and it's only like $50 more than the other gaming system. 

So.
That's what they did.
They got a new shiny Xbox One whichever model it is....

And like all electronics....
Installing things hasn't been the easiest lol.

They've spent most of the night trying to get the information from the old Xbox onto the new One (via a harddrive data transfer thingymababer)
And are just...experiencing some hardships in the process.

However...I'm pretty sure they'll be all the more happy once they get everything set up to how it was on their old one. 
Even though they lost a bit of game data....
At least they didn't lose their entire game that they had going on.
Because Skyrim is a bit of a worldbuilding game. So starting all the way over would have been extremely frustrating. 
luckily they don't need to do that.

Hopefully they get it all figured out soon and can get back to playing instead of stressing over the set up. 

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi