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  reported that the company “denies that there is a systemic problem with the hardware” and noted that it was “charging out-of-warranty customers for the privilege of fixing it despite there being no sure-fire method of delivering a long-term fix”. Diarmid Andrews of repair shop GT Electronics told that the GPU “gets too hot and melts the solder that’s holding it in place” and expressed frustration with Microsoft’s claims that design revisions had fixed

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