Just got the E74 error - advice please

Tea_Bag

after not playing my xbox for 2 days, i turned it on to an E74 error, unplugged everything etc etc no change.

the xbox is out of warranty, so i was wondering if i should send it off to M$ or anyone locally can fix it, also what it costs on average?

im based in Limerick btw..

DARK-KNIGHT

Tea_Bag wrote: »

after not playing my xbox for 2 days, i turned it on to an E74 error, unplugged everything etc etc no change.

the xbox is out of warranty, so i was wondering if i should send it off to M$ or anyone locally can fix it, also what it costs on average?

im based in Limerick btw..

if its out of warantee why would you send it to ms?

loads of guys fix the rrod prob for about 40 euro! how old is it? maybe just buy a new arcade for 140 euro and keep your hard drive so new console is a 3 year warantee while you could have to fix it again and bills keep adding up if thats the case!

imo buy a new console if its out of warantee and sell the console with the problem!

Slugs

I'm with ray on this one, you're better off buying a new one, especially if your current one is out of warranty.

NTMK

Tea your 360 is in warrenty until at least april for e74/RROD.find out did your man u bought it off register it and get in contact with microsoft and get them to replace it

or the computer shop across from the hurlers repair them

Slippin Jimmy

Also if your looking for a cheap arcade as uggested above, there is a new thread in Bargain Alerts. Think it works out at about €115 in total.

TouchingVirus

Tea_Bag wrote: »

after not playing my xbox for 2 days, i turned it on to an E74 error, unplugged everything etc etc no change.

the xbox is out of warranty, so i was wondering if i should send it off to M$ or anyone locally can fix it, also what it costs on average?

im based in Limerick btw..

The E74 is a perma error, turning it off and on again won't work. The error can be cleared with the "towel trick" but since you've only address the symptom (E74 RROD) and not the cause (overheating, most likely) it'll just happen again.

Are you 100% sure you are out of warranty? Check with Microsoft, don't guess or suppose you are out of warranty, you could be as surprised as I was That is, unless your console is banned or doesn't have the warranty stickers intact, then you're on your own.

A fix costs between €30 and €50, usually €40. Some are more advanced than others.

Tea_Bag

ah excellent i just got off the phone with M$ and im still under the E74/RROD error warranty. they pick it up within 5 days, and should be back in a little over 2 weeks.. that arcade for £109 in Bargain alerts is still pretty sweet though.

now whats my excuse for needing 2 xboxes?

TouchingVirus

Tea_Bag wrote: »

ah excellent i just got off the phone with M$ and im still under the E74/RROD error warranty. they pick it up within 5 days, and should be back in a little over 2 weeks.. that arcade for £109 in Bargain alerts is still pretty sweet though.

now whats my excuse for needing 2 xboxes?

You can mod one to play backups or just look AWESOME and keep one regular one. That's my excuse for having 3 anyways :P

Tea_Bag

TouchingVirus wrote: »

You can mod one to play backups or just look AWESOME and keep one regular one. That's my excuse for having 3 anyways :P

but the second i take my backup xbox, that i play backups on, online (inevitable tbh) it'll get banned faster than i can ejaculate...