Microsoft Xbox 360 Arcade
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My console is almost 1 year old. I played a movie




By jill_lalima on Oct 30, 2009

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My console is almost 1 year old. I played a movie on it the other day and it froze. I shut it down and tried it again today and the power button keeps blinking red????? XBox Arcade.
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Oct 30, 2009

- Well, someone told us that the console shouldn't be kept standing up... so after 10 mos of us having it that way, about a week or 2 ago we layed it down... never had a problem before and now it has frozen and the lights around the power button are flashing red, not green as usual... we made sure all connections were hooked up properly, no problem there.. so we're stumped.

Clarification Request

Posted by bob_marley_b on Oct 30, 2009

the red flashing lights are not good its a hardware failure inside the console, so i can help you further how many lights are flashing red?

Solution #1

posted on Nov 08, 2009
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cooke2518

Rank: Guru  Microsoft Video Games  Expert
Rating: 86%, 28 votes
i would conatct microsoft and check if you xbox is still under warrenty if not i suggest this solution however it does involve opening your console and it will void any warranty so please consider contacting microsoft and speak to them before trying this:

e74 or rrod error means that there is an hardware issue.
What you need to do is a very simple and cheap repair.
look on ebay for x clamp repair kits, these are just a few bucks and most sellers include a good guide in how to do the mod/fix.
what causes the rrod or e74 error is the X shape clamp on the underside or the mother board bending and mis-shaping causing the ball soldering on the gpu/cpu slightly melting and forming hairline cracks in the solder.
The x-clamp kit will apply more pressure to the gpu/cpu and a little trick of disconnecting the fans and turning on the xbox and allowing it to overheat will re melt the solder ball joints to fill the hairline cracks.
Depending on which chip is the issue you may also need a 2000 watt heat gun instead of using the over heating method (the gpu chip).
Replacing the heat pads on the heat sink with thermal paste which comes with the kit will keep the gpu/cpu cooler and you wont have this issue again.
Please make sure you buy the kit which comes with heat treated nylon washers as the steel spring washes fail!.
The repair takes around 1-2 hours
I hope this helps in fixing you xbox.
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