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I've done some machine design, and being able to quickly and easily fully shutdown and lock out a machine was an important part of our design. That being said, even if a machine isn't easy to lockout, you still need to do it, shortcuts cost lives.

Not exclusively true, the last company I worked for had multiple levels of lockout tagout. If you were working on a machine with multiple energy sources (120v, 240v, air all had their own lockouts), each one had to be locked out by a specialist, who would leave a green lock. Once all power was secure, the specialists could leave if they weren't needed for the work. Each person who was actually working on the machine would then put their personal red locks on it as well. When the work was done, each person working on it removed their red locks, and a specialist for each power source would come over and inspect the work. If they were satisfied that the work was properly done and it was safe to do so, that would remove their departments green lock. It didn't have to be the same person who put it on to remove the green lock, but it did have to be someone with equivalent or higher training.

Honestly, it worked pretty well, and was a nice extra level of care. For bigger projects though it could start looking kinda absurd with 15+ locks on a machine.

Yup, much better to have to shuffle through a Christmas tree of locks to find yours at the end of a shift than to have anyone not be protected.

Former backmarket Xbox 360 repair tech, so I might be able to help with this.

You said it "red rings" how many flashing red lights are there? Hard drive related errors generally generally only one, regardless, google how to get a secondary error code (its easy, I'm just too lazy to type it out) my guess is you have a 10 series code. (either 1003, 1010, 1011 or 1012)

These codes all mean different things, if its a 1003 I would try opening up the hard drive (4 little screws on the bottom of the drive) and reseating the sata connection inside. If that doesnt work theres not a whole lot you can do, 1011's can often be fixed by reflashing the drives firmware, but thats not an easy thing to do if you dont have experience and its easy to brick the drive. 1010's and 1012's are almost impossible to fix, and you would need to replace the drive.

Now, if you're having 3 flashing red lights, its possible you have cold solder joints under one of the processors which are only being activated when the hard drive is connected. If thats the case, you're probably better off replacing the console with a used one off of ebay or waiting for the next gen. When these consoles were still worth $200 or more used there were lits of shops (myself included) that would reflow the solder to fix the problem, at this point though, the consoles aren't worth the cost of labor to do that, and many of us have stopped offering the service all together.

When you get sexually aroused do you get "wet"? How did you react when you first found out that your genitals were unusual? How do people typically react when you tell them? Are you generally open about it, or is it something you only tell people who you're planning on being sexually involved with?

Thank you for doing an AMA. I'm sure its not easy and I'm sure a lot of people will ask a lot of stupid questions.