e74 Error on Xbox 360

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How I found out the way to repair blinking red light and fix e74 error on xbox 360.

Why is there never enough time to do things right, but always enough to do them over?

I know far too many people that have a faulty, broken, or non-working XBOX 360 unit for there not to be more of an outrage or formal investigation. Close to 44% of new Xbox 360 units will experience an e74 error within thier lifetime. I have personally experienced a large and ludicrous list of problems. The majority being: 3 red lights error 0020 or general hardware failure error e74 on the xbox 360. If I had of known the headache and what I had to go through just to play my console for a few weeks at a time, I never would have bought it. I do not buy things expecting to have to have them repaired within the first few weeks or take 4 – 6 weeks to have them returned if they do break. (more so if you do not live in the USA).

FINALLY they released a video walk through of the repair and modification process. One that works better then the “quick-fix” Microsoft did… you know the one you waited six weeks for!. Do not waste any more time with Microsoft technical support. Click here to see the only Xbox 360 repair guide that worked for me.

My first e74 Error Xbox 360 happened just weeks after I got it. it just stopped playing games and movies and was getting an e74 error. I called Microsoft technical support and after waiting on hold for 30 minutes they promptly told me to ship the unit to them. I ended up having to wait nearly 6 weeks to get it back. Even more, my console was returned without my information, my music, or my downloaded Microsoft games.

So when I called technical support the second time it broke and they told me to ship it to them, I was a little more then reluctant. The whole experience was beyond a pain and I was set to find a better solution to the problem. I tried everything I could find online including the towel trick, adding heat syncs, tweaking the laser mounting. Nothing worked! In fact some only made my problems worsen.

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Well… You could send it back, wait a few weeks, get the run around from Microsoft and waste a whole bunch of time or spend an hour watching a step by step video on how to repair it yourself.

I think the whole Microsoft Xbox 360 technical support ordeal is outrageous, and that it can be avoided altogether. The majority of these issues are problems Microsoft knew about from the XBOX 360 release. It has been proven and well documented to be caused by cheap manufacturing materials. There are several error codes including: e74 Error Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Blinking Red Light that are caused by these manufacturing and production issues. Most can be fixed but Microsoft will sometimes charge you to repair them and will always make you wait 4 – 6 weeks for a return. Trust me take my advice do not bother sending these e74 errors back to Microsoft. Every one of my e74 errors fixed by Microsoft re-occurred within 3 months. The two I fixed almost a year ago with this guide are still working today. Click here to see the solution that finally banished Xbox 360 errors from my life.

Continually Microsoft has ducked attempts to specifically discuss Xbox 360 failure rates and attributed some of the public issues to problems with the customer service center. So I just stopped dealing with them. If I knew it was this easy from the get go I would have never have sent the first broken one back.

Don’t let Microsoft ruin your gaming experience like they did mine. There is no risk involved and you may just get back to playing your games an hour from now.

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