360 died...E74..Attempt repair?

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So I havent got the RROD, but the single red light, with the E 74 message on my screen, its out of warrenty (tho by about 2 months) and as i understand it this isnt covered by the extended cover...typical.

Have seen lots of do it yourself fixes, I dont mind cracking it open, I self build pcs etc etc, so have a clue, just wondering should I argue with MS Support before giving this ago?
 
You've got nothing to lose by giving Microsoft support a call.

Beyond that you can either repair it yourself or try to force 3 RROD, although some consider this more than unethical.
 
I have no morals so dont worry lol, im about to be laid off work, and MS knowingly producing a product not legally fit for sale, ill happily screw them over as i have never used a copy of anything else from them before.
 
Right, I'm convinced now that these things are designed to brake out of warranty. Mine and 2 friends died within 2 weeks (my 3 friends on the same day) all about 2 months after the warranty expiry with the E74 error. Not to mention all these threads popping up all over the place. I feel your pain and suggest you try and make it red ring.

Call me a conspiracy theorist.

/edit When mine went I took it apart and managed to get it working again by pressing hard on what I think was the VGA scaling chip but it was only a temporary fix although it worked a few times.
 
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MaxPower said:
Right, I'm convinced now that these things are designed to brake out of warranty. Mine and 2 friends died within 2 weeks (my 3 friends on the same day) all about 2 months after the warranty expiry with the E74 error. Not to mention all these threads popping up all over the place. I feel your pain and suggest you try and make it red ring.

Call me a conspiracy theorist.

/edit When mine went I took it apart and managed to get it working again by pressing hard on what I think was the VGA scaling chip but it was only a temporary fix although it worked a few times.
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Yeah because it's possible to engineer electronics to fail after a certain period of time..NOT! If it's a hardware issue as you suggested (pushing on the graphics chip cured it) then it's just bad luck and coincidence that you've had failures after a certain period of time.
 
cu3ed said:
So is it mostly a problem with the GPU under the heatsink?

Most seem to clean it up and re-seat the HS with new thermal paste.
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The board warps with the heat due to the heatsink retention mechanism and the solder points break over time.
 
I find it hard to believe this as Im barly on it, I mostly have used as a handy way to play back DivX films on it TBH, I only have about 4 games for the thing! and only racked up aboiut 500G point thingys over the 14months, never really sitting on it for hours at a time or anything.
 
God damn it!
Well then as the warrenty has gone I guess I have nothing to lose by opening it up, dont have the money as things are for a new one.
 
No didnt bother..well atually I did and got some atumated voice thing I couldnt be bothered with, was like a vocalised Troubleshooter lol.

So, what did I do...I wrapped it up and heated the crap out of it...and it worked....for about 5 days...did it again...it worked...for about 7 days...........then a third time....its working again........seeing a pattern lol?
 
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