E74 & One Red Light

cian1500ww

God dammit

Two years next month I've had this 360 and I've had no problems with it, just popped it on tonight and got an E74 error on the screen and one red flashing light. I did a bit of searching and found it is related to the GPU and should be covered by the extended warranty. Anyone else have this error and get it repaired under the extended 3 year warranty ?

mailrewop

my cousin got it a few months ago and he was covered within the 3 year warrenty

cian1500ww

mailrewop wrote: »

my cousin got it a few months ago and he was covered within the 3 year warrenty

Thanks.

The request a repair online doesn't seem to be working for me, keep getting a "A problem has occurred" message. I'll have to ring them in the morning.

cian1500ww

Anyone know how long it takes for the tracking no. to go from billing info received after the parcel has been picked up ? Mine was picked up yesterday but the tracking is still on the billing info ??

Flyer1

Exact thing happened mine about 3 weeks ago. From the time it was collected to the time i got it back fixed was 6 working days , and I got a free month of xbox live

djkeogh

I think your gonna be looking at 2-3 weeks or more before you get the box back. Think it was 22 days from the day I posted mine to the day I got it back "repaired".

cian1500ww

I hope the package is on the way, I'd like to be able to track it though but as long as it gets there in time, I don't mind. As long as I have it back before Christmas I'll be happy. The sooner the better though.

keystone

Just happened to me at the weekend.

This would be the third time my Elite has been sent back to them. Generally, its a 2-3 week wait for the unit to come back from the date of collection.

Obviously, they havent fixed the problems with the Elite as I keep haveing hardware problems. They say there are no issues when they get it...usual stuff.

My first Xbox has the rings of death error also. I never had any issues with any Console I ever had until I got an Xbox 360.

I'm finished with Xbox now I have to say, hardware can fail but after having to deal with their support staff a lot over the last year, I have to say that while the console is great, its let down by the dreadful customer service.

Anyhoo, best of luck with your repair, I hope it went well.

Off to PS3 for me I think.

Evolute

PS3 have their own gpu and overheating problems I hope you have less trouble with them

keystone

Still waiting for MS to do something to assist me here.

Unit still in warranty.......

I've gone past caring. Its great to be at home for a nice long break without catching up on some gameplay.....brilliant.

Soby

Think thats the one i had ...or it was e73....googled it and got back a video saying if you block the fans and turn it,xbox thinks its over heating,you get 3 red lights,plug everything out and it should work..I tried it and it did the job..So cant really see any risk in it bar maybe damaging your fans but could try it if ya want