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Forums - Microsoft - Is the E74 error the new RROD?

dbot on 23 March 2009
nightsurge said:

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.

I believe you are correct about the HDMI port coming loose.  I highly doubt that the E74 issue is serious or widespread.  A 3% failure rate is expected for electronics.  It is likely that some 360's will fail, just as some PS3s, and Wiis will fail.

 



Thanks for the input, Jeff.

 

 

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megaman79 on 23 March 2009

What is this? Why can't MS make a 360 that works.



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megaman79 on 23 March 2009

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/19/joystiq-survey-xbox-360-e74-errors-on-the-rise-since-nxe/

Survey and information



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

Euphoria14 on 23 March 2009

Seems to me like the RRoD/E-74 errors aren't as big as people think anymore. Yeah I could be wrong, but from where I stand I figure mine should have broke long ago.

I beat the hell out of my 360 in terms of game time. Yesterday I had the sucker on for like 12 hours straight while playing Vesperia and pausing it to leave the room for a few hours (too lazy to find a save point). I do this quite frequently and the console is still going strong.

It is actually the only console I own that has yet to give me a single problem. PS3 is giving me controller issues and the Wii, well... GPU fried on it and I had to have it fixed.



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nightsurge on 23 March 2009
megaman79 said:
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/19/joystiq-survey-xbox-360-e74-errors-on-the-rise-since-nxe/

Survey and information

A survey based on emails sent to them... and the numbers are barely into the teens at their peak!  That's pretty low if you ask me!  The only reason for the recent rise over the last few months is because of all these idiotic blog posts and so called "articles" that are passing around the same old crappy information based off of "forum posts".



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thx1139 on 23 March 2009

2 things.

1. I experienced a E74 error. Cable was loose. Kids must have moved the 360 from one TV to another.

2. This month my launch 360 RRoD on me. MS still covered in warranty even though it was more than 3 years. Interesting thing to note is that they actually sent the same unit back that I sent them. Other people I know in the past got different units back with different serial numbers. What does this tell me? Looks like MS doesnt have a bunch of 360's being repaired so they send you back the original now rather than sending back one that was fixed a couple of days prior.



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

Mise on 23 March 2009
Mummelmann said:

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.

Agreed. If anything, this'll cause even more PR damage to Microsoft, since it'll just make them seem like they learned nothing from the RRoD fiasco.

 



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CaptDS9E on 23 March 2009

I know plenty of people that have had RROD. i do not know anyone with this problem.



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NicholasCage on 24 March 2009

Microsoft should seriously have 3 year warranty on ALL Xbox360 and should include E 74 on it.

I heard that if you got the E74 and your warranty if over 1 year, you can't replace it and have to pay $100 for a refurb'd one :\.

I'm not trying to flamebait here but honestly, Microsoft needs to fix all of their problems with their products. For instance, I saw an article on Yahoo [idk if it's reliable or not lol] that said Microsoft was aware of the disc scratching before the launch date and they still haven't fixed it.



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nightsurge on 24 March 2009

My console has never scratched a disc.