24 responses to “Fix an xbox 360 with Red Ring Of Death ~ e74 ~1 red light — PART 2”

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  Hatred2Soul November 16th, 2009 at 17:27

  well that’s something i never heard of then, i’d say best bet is to take it in and have it fixed or something

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  IDJFreedom November 18th, 2009 at 05:43

  I cant let it cool down because after I fix the X-clamps thing he won’t overheat in a first place…
  Xbox shows 3 red lights but wont overheat…
  What can be a problem????

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  Hatred2Soul November 20th, 2009 at 00:03

  if you overheat it you have to let it cool down, because an overheated system won’t run right, like with the towel trick, when you do that, you gotta let it cool down before you turn it on, the lights go away, but that trick only fixes it for half an hour, but yeah, let it cool down first, as he said in the video

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  IDJFreedom November 20th, 2009 at 20:34

  I did everything ,but Xbox won’t overheat ,the three lights are flashing but there is no heat at all and the brick shows orange light (when I turn it ON ,green become orange in a split second) HELP???

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  Stahlstein November 20th, 2009 at 22:53

  Great videos, worked perfectly to fix my error E74, thx alot!

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  818silencer818 November 21st, 2009 at 15:27

  Once you put it back together and turn it on and the 3 Red lights are on, you let it sit for 20 mins and 2 lights will turn on, do you turn off the xbox then? or wait until it turns itself off?

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  stormsma November 24th, 2009 at 12:15

  woop woop! this has worked for meeee!! Thanks so much for your vid, its saved me hours of whining from my little boy!

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  AKENOXTRM November 26th, 2009 at 17:48

  Thnx for the info guys

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  lookoutforholes November 27th, 2009 at 01:56

  To my knowledge (i maybe wrong) but an E74 error is a av cable error / video error, so if you clean the metal part of your av cable it may work or if you try to use a new (or some1 elses 1) it may also work. either that or your scaler chip is broken which in that case the only way is to send it off to ms for repair

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  xxJVARxx November 27th, 2009 at 18:51

  Do we gotta wait for xbox to cool down again to restart it… Cause when I over heat it and restart my xbox it still has the e74 problem??

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  lookoutforholes November 30th, 2009 at 04:09

  Question, i cant rememeber, is the connect wireless controller button meant to make a clicky noise like the disk tray button or is it meant to be quite and not click when pushed?

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  XxNoCtErNaLxX November 30th, 2009 at 10:23

  So is this a “permanent” resolution after you get your RROD?….
  and once this is done and your 360 is not RROD will using a fan to keep it cool help it not get RROD again?

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  Halosnip3r31 December 1st, 2009 at 16:47

  Make sure you cleaned the GPU all the way .

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  Halosnip3r31 December 3rd, 2009 at 11:54

  This works by the GPU getting overheated and being knocked out of place by the loose heat sinks causing vibrations. Putting thermal paste helps conduct heat so the xbox works properly.

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  pikachu671 December 6th, 2009 at 02:39

  what you should you do is that you do the same process which is shown in this video. but when you are about to tighten the screw.. just tight all of them and just adjust the screw loosing it up with a 90 degree (left turn) with all the screw then it should work all ready…..

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  NinJ4SikArIO December 6th, 2009 at 03:21

  ok put it bak together…lol…i wanted to see it all back together

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  NobbysPcHelp December 7th, 2009 at 01:33

  because what has happend it the x clamp has caused the xbox mb to warp when it was hot changing the bolts puts even and minimal pressure on the mb and also pulls the chip onto the board evenly reconnecting the broken circut that caused the RROD

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  BTaNg92 December 10th, 2009 at 07:10

  I agree with boombox and by the way lebense99 you spelt first wrong.

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  lookoutforholes December 12th, 2009 at 20:36

  Hey guys, i just tryed this, did everything, replaced the paste, so i didnt connect the fan, it went from 3 lights to two, the heatsinks heated up. I then connected the fans and the vaccum thingy and turned it on, heatsinks heated up, but i get the 3 lights again. i loosened and tightened the screw, but still same prob, what should i do or wat did i do wrong, could someone please tell me?

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  00cardenas December 14th, 2009 at 08:50

  so does this permanently fix your Xbox or is it temporary??

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  Topshelfsniper22 December 17th, 2009 at 01:14

  @blackhellsfury

  I used #10-32 1/2 in. Steel bolts #10-32 nuts and #10-32 rubber washers. 8 of each. Although if u can find 1/3, or 1/4 inch bolts, I would get those. Idk if they make them, but they would work better.

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  Topshelfsniper22 December 19th, 2009 at 09:10

  @ Charfor

  Loosen the screws on the case a little bit. Especially the back ones. I noticed the screws were bending my motherboard bc of the nuts on the bottom of the board

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  AKENOXTRM December 22nd, 2009 at 02:09

  How does this work ,what do the the red lights mean? n how does changing bolts , putting some thermal paste n overheating fix it??

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  nasman415 December 23rd, 2009 at 06:49

  fixed the RROD ERROR now i have sound but no video WTF????