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786_ali on 23 March 2009

so far from what i've heard, MS did something in the NXE which makes the console display 1 ring rather 3 when it rrods. i know a guy how fixes 360s and he said the problems are teh same and so is the solution



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shakarak on 23 March 2009

This just made front page news on yahoo.com

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/is-quot-e74-quot-the-xbox-360-s-new-red-ring-of-death-/1299076



Spankey on 23 March 2009
kramikosi said:

This is why i wont waste anymore money on the threesix.. seriously, arent you guys afraid of playing your 360's? I mean damn, they still havent fixed the red ring. The chances for E-74 is NOT slim, the forums are spammed with it, FYI its a 50% chance that you will get either E-74 or RROD. Damn... :)

 

Do you have any evidence to show to back that up?

Sounds like BS to me.



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Bitmap Frogs on 23 March 2009
kramikosi said:

This is why i wont waste anymore money on the threesix.. seriously, arent you guys afraid of playing your 360's? I mean damn, they still havent fixed the red ring. The chances for E-74 is NOT slim, the forums are spammed with it, FYI its a 50% chance that you will get either E-74 or RROD. Damn... :)

 

Like flies to shit, so the trolls flock to these kind of threads.

Even Spankey found your post objectionable =/





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Megadude on 23 March 2009
786_ali said:
so far from what i've heard, MS did something in the NXE which makes the console display 1 ring rather 3 when it rrods. i know a guy how fixes 360s and he said the problems are teh same and so is the solution

 

 That would be mad foul. MS says that E74 is different from RROD but they don't say how. I know one way it's different, it's not covered.



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TheBigFatJ on 23 March 2009
Wookaroo said:

I was planning on purchasing a new 360 this fall. Hopefully I'll be able to find a model that doesn't have heating issues. It's hard to believe that the new designs still suffer from the same core problem it's predecessors have for years now.

 

You won't be able to find a 360 that's very reliable.  Just buy one and deal with the issues as they come up.  Every one of my friends with 360s (10+) have had to replace theirs at least once.  My 360 has managed to limp along, though.



tmbh on 23 March 2009

My Falcon Elite went E74 on me. Under warranty MS replaced the motherboard.

Where are the official figures on failures?

There is a lot of rumour and speculation about recent RROD and E74 errors/failures but does anyone have any solid facts or figures to back any of the wild claims?



nightsurge on 23 March 2009

Already posted a long time ago. We already commented on why this is such a small issue. This causes less 360's to fail than Blu-Ray drive errors on PS3's......

Can a mod close this Duplicate Thread?

Oh and the E74 is caused by something completely different than RROD.  E74 is caused by a faulty VGA cable or the HDMI port coming loose, or the scaler chip having issues.  Nothing related to the RRoD causes.



nightsurge on 23 March 2009
786_ali said:
so far from what i've heard, MS did something in the NXE which makes the console display 1 ring rather 3 when it rrods. i know a guy how fixes 360s and he said the problems are teh same and so is the solution

Your friend that "fixes" 360s is an idiot then.  The problems can be caused by the same thing (heat), but the solutions are no where near the same since it is completely different areas of the console that are failing.  The NXE did nothing of the sort.  If you really heard that somewhere, it was an unbased speculative rumor trying to add to this BS type of scare they are all picking up on lately.  Seriously, do I need to bring in my posts from the other E74 thread to explain again why this is not an issue?



Mummelmann on 23 March 2009

Don't know how widespread this error is, really. I have friends who have suffered RROD and harddrive failures but I don't know anyone who has gotten this error (yet). I believe it is a much smaller issue than RROD was at its height at any rate.
That said, the last thing the 360 needs is another way of crapping out hardware wise, it is amazing to think that companies can construct such malfunctioning machines in this day and age (which is a shame, it truly is a great console!), let's just hope they learned something from that this gen and don't fall into the same pit next gen.