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Weird e74 story, Need Help

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:52 am
by stayambiguous
I don't know exactly what happened. But my brother came and woke me up today, yelling at me franticly that the xbox was broken.

I opened the door and his exact words were "I got this message that said "Don't Open This Message" and then he got a message from his friend saying "Never mind it works" or something of the sort, opened the "Do not Open" one, and badabing badaboom, xbox360is down.

I don't have any idea how it happened, it came up with e74. I checked the AV cables thinking maybe it was just some sort of fluke, but apparently the message froze the system as well, so it can't just be a coincidence.

Any help? Is there a ANA/HANA fix? I read on the error code guides that 90% of the time when its not the AV its scaler chip.

Or am I f^$#ed?

Re: Weird e74 story, Need Help

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:59 am
by CoFree
it will have to go to M$ for the fix
it is under warr for that trouble for 3 years.

Re: Weird e74 story, Need Help

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:13 pm
by stayambiguous
Out of warranty.

I know there's a xclamp, but is that for a complete different problem?

Or should I just go without the xbox for a couple months and save up for a new one, ours is one from the first year it came out.

And its been flashed, with the warranty sticker clearly removed and visible markings on the back where you push in the little clips, along with a different sata cable than the original one.

Or would I have luck sending it in for $98, would they fix it with all those obvious tamperings?

Re: Weird e74 story, Need Help

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:23 pm
by HaGGardSmurf
You may aswell try the xclamp, lots of people have done it on youtube and it has worked...

What have you got to lose I guess..

Re: Weird e74 story, Need Help

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:10 pm
by strykr535
i did the xclamp fix but jus to let u know its only a temp fix after i did it ,it lasted bout 2 weeks then i re did it an got another 3 weeks outta it then i was jus like screw this and jus got a new one

Re: Weird e74 story, Need Help

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:49 am
by sas67
as well as xclamp fix,you could try heatgunning the board