User contributions for Vindicator4021

10 June 2025

• 22:4722:47, 10 June 2025 diff hist +7,226 Bumpgate Added PS3 consumer response, lots more minor edits, and some comments. Also added a paragraph about the PS3 Story 2 video in "Misdiagnosis and Faults", but see my comment at the top of that section. Tag: Visual edit
• 19:4219:42, 10 June 2025 diff hist +984 Talk:Bumpgate →Sources to add, further reading, and "why": Reply Tag: Reply

9 June 2025

• 19:0319:03, 9 June 2025 diff hist +176 m Bumpgate →Nvidia Consumer Response Tag: Visual edit

8 June 2025

• 21:4421:44, 8 June 2025 diff hist +5,420 Bumpgate Added Dell's response to the appropriate section, detailed much more of Nvidia's response and situation, renamed the "Lawsuit(s)" section to "Nvidia Lawsuit (2010)", and of course, added relevant citations. Tag: Visual edit

7 June 2025

• 21:3621:36, 7 June 2025 diff hist +117 User talk:Vindicator4021 →You do exceptional work, thanks a lot.: Reply Tag: Reply
• 21:2121:21, 7 June 2025 diff hist +5,195 Bumpgate Added info on Nvidia's response (and a little bit of consumer response for them), Apple's response, a very brief description of Dell's response, some pictures, and some citations. Tag: Visual edit
• 19:2719:27, 7 June 2025 diff hist +23 m File:Flip chip mount underfill.png Added license current Tag: Visual edit
• 19:2719:27, 7 June 2025 diff hist +373 N File:Flip chip mount underfill.png File originally from Wikimedia Commons. The following information is from the original file. | Original File Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flip_chip_mount_underfill.svg | Description: Flip Chip, flipped, attached to the carrier, underfilling, illustration made for w:Flip Chip | Date: 1 March 2008 | Author: Twisp (Wikimedia Commons user)
• 19:2419:24, 7 June 2025 diff hist +344 N File:Underfilled Die.png File originally uploaded on Wikimedia Commons. The following information is from the original file. | Original File Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Underfilled_Die.svg | Description: Processing chip (translated from German) | Date: 3 May 2010 | Author: PNG: Martin Maier; SVG: Cepheiden | License: Public Domain current
• 19:1119:11, 7 June 2025 diff hist +479 N File:Nvidia G80, G84 and G86 size comparison.jpg Originally from Wikimedia Commons. All information is from the original file. Original File Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nvidia_G80,_G84_and_G86_size_comparison.jpg Description: Die shot of the NVIDIA G84 graphics processor. Date: 7 January 2018, 13:14:18 Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/140974729@N05/27778664749/ Author: Martijn Boer License: Public Domain Confirmed to be Public Domain on 8 June 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 (Wikimedia Commons) current
• 19:0219:02, 7 June 2025 diff hist +1,019 Talk:Bumpgate →Sources to add, further reading, and "why": Reply Tag: Reply

5 June 2025

• 15:1415:14, 5 June 2025 diff hist +1,804 Talk:Bumpgate →Sources to add, further reading, and "why": Reply Tag: Reply
• 14:4714:47, 5 June 2025 diff hist +310 Bumpgate →Misdiagnosis/Poor Repair of Faults: Polished this section a bit; the stuff about the PS3 mods was a little wordier than it needed to be. Tag: Visual edit
• 14:3714:37, 5 June 2025 diff hist +2,125 Microsoft Added a section discussing the Xbox 360's Red Ring of Death incident with appropriate citations, linking to the Bumpgate article. Tag: Visual edit
• 14:0114:01, 5 June 2025 diff hist +1,540 Sony →Controversies: Added a row explaining the PS3 Yellow Light of Death incident with relevant citations; linked to the "Bumpgate" article for more info. Tag: Visual edit

4 June 2025

• 22:3422:34, 4 June 2025 diff hist +2,783 User:Vindicator4021 yapping time (removed a couple of external links in my edit so the wiki wouldn't freak out. was just an article and a youtube video illustrating a random point; wasn't super important anyway lol). Tag: Visual edit
• 17:2017:20, 4 June 2025 diff hist +3,936 Bumpgate →Misdiagnosis/Poor Repair of Faults: Most changes were made here; mainly rephrasing some stuff for clarity and adding more details. Also added block quotes to Microsoft's and Sony's responses for a bit more flavor, and added TONS of proper citations. Tag: Visual edit
• 02:1202:12, 4 June 2025 diff hist +363 Talk:Bumpgate →Sources to add, further reading, and "why": Reply Tag: Reply
• 02:0802:08, 4 June 2025 diff hist −2 m Bumpgate Fixed a formatting error in the Microsoft section caused by image adding. Tag: Visual edit
• 02:0702:07, 4 June 2025 diff hist +3,966 Bumpgate Fixed instances of "Tg" to be formatted correctly, added some illustrative images to the Microsoft's Response section, added more details to Sony's Response, and of course, added more citations. Tag: Visual edit
• 00:3900:39, 4 June 2025 diff hist +372 N File:GPU late.jpg Originally obtained from Wikimedia Commons. All information below is from the original source. Original Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GPU_early.jpg Description: 65nm "Xenos" GPU and 65nm eDRAM of late "Jasper" (v2) revision XBOX 360 consoles on "Kronos 1" package. Date: 2019 Source: Self-photographed Author: martravi Licensing: CC-BY-SA-4.0 current
• 00:3500:35, 4 June 2025 diff hist +345 N File:GPU early.jpg Originally obtained from Wikimedia Commons. All information below is from the original source. Original Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GPU_early.jpg Description: 90nm "Xenos" GPU and 90nm eDRAM of early "Xenon" revision XBOX 360 consoles. Date: 2019 Source: Self-photographed Author: martravi Licensing: CC-BY-SA-4.0 current

3 June 2025

• 15:0015:00, 3 June 2025 diff hist +800 Talk:Bumpgate →Sources to add, further reading, and "why": Reply Tag: Reply
• 14:4414:44, 3 June 2025 diff hist +526 Talk:Bumpgate →Sources to add, further reading, and "why": Reply Tag: Reply
• 14:3014:30, 3 June 2025 diff hist +652 m Bumpgate Made it clearer why readers need to know about the fault/defect's cause. Also added more citations where needed. Tag: Visual edit
• 01:1901:19, 3 June 2025 diff hist +42 m User:Vindicator4021 added what folks can call me (see this is what I meant about the forgetting something minor lol) Tag: Visual edit
• 01:1801:18, 3 June 2025 diff hist +667 m User:Vindicator4021 added extra details to my user page Tag: Visual edit
• 00:5900:59, 3 June 2025 diff hist +234 m Bumpgate →Sony's Response - The "Yellow Light of Death": Added a reference for the soldering iron "poke test". Tag: Visual edit
• 00:5400:54, 3 June 2025 diff hist −254 m Bumpgate Added some headers, changed [Incidents] to "Companies involved and responses", and corrected misuses of solder "balls" to "bumps" in the intro. (yes, there's a difference) Tag: Visual edit
• 00:3700:37, 3 June 2025 diff hist −1,311 m Nintendo Cleaned up some citations. Tag: Visual edit
• 00:3200:32, 3 June 2025 diff hist +771 Nintendo Mostly cleaned up formatting in various sections, rephrased some things for clarity, and added some minor details (e.g., links). Tag: Visual edit

2 June 2025

• 22:3922:39, 2 June 2025 diff hist +5,188 Bumpgate Added Microsoft's response, as well as consumer response for Microsoft. Also added Sony's response, but it needs a bit more fleshing out. Tag: Visual edit
• 15:5315:53, 2 June 2025 diff hist +939 Talk:Bumpgate →Sources to add, further reading, and "why": Reply Tag: Reply
• 15:3415:34, 2 June 2025 diff hist +3,617 Bumpgate Background: Clarified and removed inaccuracies in regards to what happened. [Incident]: Added a brief description of how it as widespread. Consumer Response: Discussed how a lot of people misdiagnosed and poorly "fixed" the problems on their systems (esp. 360 and PS3 owners). Tag: Visual edit

1 June 2025

• 23:4623:46, 1 June 2025 diff hist +2 m Bumpgate Changed some headers a bit to work better for the context of this article. Tag: Visual edit
• 23:4223:42, 1 June 2025 diff hist −2 m Bumpgate No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 23:3923:39, 1 June 2025 diff hist +2,019 Bumpgate Intro: Clarified that the defect affected ATI as well, hence why it seemingly affected early Xbox 360s. Background: Added simple description of the Nvidia GPUs' fault. (Need to do more research on ATI's fault before adding.) Also has sources now! Tag: Visual edit
• 19:3719:37, 1 June 2025 diff hist +12 m Bumpgate Clarification on the PS3 defect in the intro. Tag: Visual edit
• 19:3519:35, 1 June 2025 diff hist +138 User talk:Vindicator4021 →Welcome!: Reply Tag: Reply
• 19:3419:34, 1 June 2025 diff hist +2,697 N Talk:Bumpgate →Sources to add, further reading, and "why": new section Tag: New topic
• 19:0019:00, 1 June 2025 diff hist +1,628 N Bumpgate Started the page and wrote the intro paragraph to it. (Will be fleshing this out more later.) Tag: Visual edit
• 18:3118:31, 1 June 2025 diff hist +1,866 Talk:Nintendo Reply Tag: Reply
• 18:0218:02, 1 June 2025 diff hist +543 m Nintendo →Joy-Con and Joystick related Hardware Failures: Added a citation for the "Which?" article. Tag: Visual edit

31 May 2025

• 20:5920:59, 31 May 2025 diff hist +76 m Nintendo Added a proper link to the "full section" about The Big House Tournament. Tag: Visual edit
• 20:5620:56, 31 May 2025 diff hist +1,933 Nintendo Added the main subsection for The Big House Online Tournament (2020). Also edited the bit from the emulation subsection to be a bit clearer and more tonally appropriate. Tag: Visual edit
• 19:3619:36, 31 May 2025 diff hist +2,378 Nintendo Added some extra context to the history against emulation subsection. Also added basic details and citations regarding the incident with The Big House Online tournament back in 2020; will add a dedicated subsection for that whole incident later. Tag: Visual edit
• 17:5417:54, 31 May 2025 diff hist +8 m Forced arbitration Changed the entry for Proton under "Examples" to link to the "Protonmail" page for now. (Previously mistakenly linked to "Zoom".) Will need updated if a Company page is added for Proton. Tag: Visual edit
• 14:3614:36, 31 May 2025 diff hist +19 m Crash Team Racing Linked "Binding Arbitration" in "See also" to the "Forced arbitration" page. Tag: Visual edit
• 14:2914:29, 31 May 2025 diff hist 0 m Terms of service Attempted to fix the Wikipedia link in the hatnote. Tag: Visual edit

19 May 2025

• 09:4309:43, 19 May 2025 diff hist +330 N User:Vindicator4021 made my user page Tag: Visual edit