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post #1291 of 1622
2/9/10 at 5:22pm
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Originally Posted by guuskolo View Post

hello guys

yesterday i played a game on my xbox, there was mist in the game i played but normaly you could see trough the mist but yesterday it was very blurry, i couldnt look through it but it was playable.

today i started my xbox 360 it started normally with sound no rings of death or anything but there was no picture. a friend of mine say it could be the video card. and if it is the video card how can i fix it or would it cost anything if it costs anything.

ty already

grtz

Audio but no video = GPU. Try the X-Clamp fix. Costs about $7.

Do NOT pay for some ridiculous guide on how to do this!
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post #1292 of 1622
2/9/10 at 5:32pm
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Originally Posted by spyder696969 View Post

If you have XBox Live, simply buy a new HDD and recover your gamertag. Paying MS or anyone else to repair it would be beyond absurd, considering Xbox 250GB drives only cost $75 now.

Btw, E68 isn't always the hard drive itself. It can also be the leads from the console or the HDD not seating correctly. If it is the HDD and you don't have Live, you can always try the ol' "Tin Foil Bridge" trick...might work long enough to transfer the data to your new drive.

Do NOT pay for some ridiculous guide on how to do this!

The console is only 3.5 months old so it's under warranty.
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post #1293 of 1622
2/17/10 at 6:27am
I have a 360 Elite, Olevia 232T, Sony STR-DG720. I currently have the 360 connected to the TV through HDMI, and sound goes from 360 to receiver through optical. What I want is HDMI going from the 360-Receiver-TV... not working. The image shows up for about 3 seconds, it's off for 10-30, then it's on, and this repeats. While I can see it I've changed every video setting and nothing works.

It works on my PC monitor, so it must be an issue with my TV. Does anyone have any ideas? Anybody have any firmwares saved that I could try or know of any settings? I'd like to be able to get a PS3 at some point and use HDMI for both. I do plan on getting a new TV, but that's much later in the future.
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post #1294 of 1622
2/18/10 at 7:41am
Finally got Error E74, took two and a half years which is pretty good I guess. Ironically, hadn't had any issues until I decided to play Crackdown for the first time in 2 years Got the rainbow/flickering/crazy screen and then next day DONE.

Just glad it happened now and not in 6 months after it's no longer covered.
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post #1295 of 1622
2/20/10 at 6:19pm
I have my 360 hooked up via component to an onkyo receiver at 720p and 1080i and have been noticing for a few months that the image seems to be shifted a wee bit to the right, so there is a tiny sliver of a black bar on the left. I just figured it might be something they'd fix in an update because nothing else in my setup or settings has changed, but wanted to check if I'm the only one having this issue.
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post #1296 of 1622
2/22/10 at 1:49pm
I have an issue that's pissing me off. My Gears 2 game has had a few issues recently with starting. I would get the "DisK is unreadable" message, so I'd pop it open and reclose it to get it to load. Well today I went to play and it wouldn't load at all, so I figured it might be a simple case of just a worn out game disk. I only play Gears of War and have almost 200,000 kills if that gives you any idea

Anyway, so I went and picked up a new copy to no avail. I still get the "Unreadable Disk" message. Every other game I own load's and play's fine ???? Any idea what gives???
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post #1297 of 1622
2/22/10 at 2:00pm
That happened to me when I tore the shrinkwrap off Skate 2 this weekend. It's really kind of annoying considering the game is brand new and my 360 is less than a year old.

The good thing is you can install games to hard drives. Once the game installs it only uses the disc to authenticate. Try doing that. It doesn't "fix" the problem but if it installs properly you can play the game.
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post #1298 of 1622
2/22/10 at 2:09pm
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Originally Posted by TweakerInWA View Post

I have an issue that's pissing me off. My Gears 2 game has had a few issues recently with starting. I would get the "DisK is unreadable" message, so I'd pop it open and reclose it to get it to load. Well today I went to play and it wouldn't load at all, so I figured it might be a simple case of just a worn out game disk. I only play Gears of War and have almost 200,000 kills if that gives you any idea

Anyway, so I went and picked up a new copy to no avail. I still get the "Unreadable Disk" message. Every other game I own load's and play's fine ???? Any idea what gives???

Maybe you have a bad dvd drive. Why would you buy another copy instead of just renting one for a few $$?
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post #1299 of 1622
2/22/10 at 6:09pm
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Originally Posted by SKoprowski View Post

Maybe you have a bad dvd drive. Why would you buy another copy instead of just renting one for a few $$?

1. I guess I figured it was the problem (why I bought another)

2. EVERY other game I have loads and plays fine, including Gears I.....There's no way it's the drive or laser like I've read in a few forums as being the explination. If it is, could someone tell me how a bad drive or laser could POSSIBLY be bad for ONE game and not 20 others?? Plays DVD's fine as well....
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post #1300 of 1622
2/22/10 at 7:35pm
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Originally Posted by TweakerInWA View Post

1. I guess I figured it was the problem (why I bought another)

2. EVERY other game I have loads and plays fine, including Gears I.....There's no way it's the drive or laser like I've read in a few forums as being the explination. If it is, could someone tell me how a bad drive or laser could POSSIBLY be bad for ONE game and not 20 others?? Plays DVD's fine as well....

As lasers get older, their intensity (and thus ability to read) fades, most often rather slowly, starting with one or two discs and then failing more and more often, eventually ending with an inability to read anything at all. The solution is to tweak the pot ever so slightly as time marches on, going from somewhere around 3.8 on down to 2.8 on your multimeter set at 20K. Not all discs are created equally, including those of the game variety. Gears may have been printed on discs with a slightly different dye contruct than some of the other games you currently own. It's highly likely that you'll get more and more errors fairly soon if your original disc was not merely the problem.
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post #1301 of 1622
2/26/10 at 9:13am
Hello all,

I've been having problems with my xbox since last night. I was playing MW2 online when the system froze (fun). When I rebooted the system, I was prompted with a system update. I allowed the thing to update, but everytime I do, the system reboots after the update and freezes, either at the loading screen or 3 minutes into any xbox live match I try. When I restart it, it wants to update again in order to reach xbox live. The funny thing is my roomates have been playing all day offline and haven't had any problems. It's only when I try to connect online and get this update request that things go wrong.

I suppose it could just be the usual 3 rings problem, but it felt unique because the freezing doesn't (yet) take place except for when trying to update the system. Hell, I dont even know if there was an actual update last night. Any insight is appreciated.

Thanks!
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post #1302 of 1622
3/6/10 at 6:52pm
I was playing COD MW2 last night and all of a sudden this layer of pixelation came over the screen. Every couple of minutes the screen would go back to normal, but after five seconds the graphics would return to being messed up. If i reset the system, the graphics will go back to normal until the system warms up. I can play one game of COD before it happens. Is this the E74 error? If so what should I do?
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post #1303 of 1622
3/7/10 at 6:04am
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Originally Posted by Simon1921 View Post

I was playing COD MW2 last night and all of a sudden this layer of pixelation came over the screen. Every couple of minutes the screen would go back to normal, but after five seconds the graphics would return to being messed up. If i reset the system, the graphics will go back to normal until the system warms up. I can play one game of COD before it happens. Is this the E74 error? If so what should I do?

That is EXACTLY what happened to me a few weeks ago, except when I restarted it I got the E74 error and the Xbox wouldn't play again. I bought a new one, sent the old one to Microsoft, they sent me a new one for free, and I sold the replacement on eBay.

I didn't want to wait on Microsoft before I could play again (and I wanted a newer Elite with a newer chipset and smaller power brick).

The one that E74ed was an original Elite and Microsoft still "fixed" it for free.

Good luck!
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post #1304 of 1622
3/7/10 at 7:09am
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Originally Posted by Simon1921 View Post

I was playing COD MW2 last night and all of a sudden this layer of pixelation came over the screen. Every couple of minutes the screen would go back to normal, but after five seconds the graphics would return to being messed up. If i reset the system, the graphics will go back to normal until the system warms up. I can play one game of COD before it happens. Is this the E74 error? If so what should I do?

You don't have to wait for it to "officially" die. Just send it to MS and claim it showed E74.
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post #1305 of 1622
3/7/10 at 10:26am
Ok I am going to call them right now. thanks for the help
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post #1306 of 1622
3/10/10 at 7:06pm
xbox 360 no audio,the picture shows perfect but no sound. i hooked it up av, component and even vga on different tv and still no sound
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post #1307 of 1622
3/10/10 at 7:16pm
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Originally Posted by kiko1 View Post

xbox 360 no audio,the picture shows perfect but no sound. i hooked it up av, component and even vga on different tv and still no sound

Most likely a broken solder joint in the A/V connector or under the (H)ANA chip. If you don't see any physical damage to the connector, best bet is to reflow (or even better, reball with lead-free solder) the chip.
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post #1308 of 1622
3/10/10 at 7:29pm
ok, ill check those areas and see what i come up with
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post #1309 of 1622
3/14/10 at 4:43pm
Hi my gamertag is Sorrow Suicidal,i have a 1080p 46" sanyo my xbox 360 with hdmi cables the display is acting wierd...i usually only play halo 3 and the display is set to widescreen so there is two black strips on both sides of my tv and the halo 3 game play in the middle how can i fix this problem i want it to go back to being normal to where my game took up the entire screen
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post #1310 of 1622
3/15/10 at 8:08am
dammit, the DVD on my 360 pro stopped reading discs for the 2nd thime, this weekend. I have an original release console, and MS has repaired it for the 3x red rings, for E74 video, and previously swapped out the DVD. The console is still under 1 year warranty for replacing the dvd last year. I called MS and told them about all the repairs I've had on it, but all they said is that they will run full diagnostics on it

at what point does MS finally replace the failed console with a different one? and if they do, would they replace it with a "refurbished pro" or would they send me an arcade instead ?
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post #1311 of 1622
3/15/10 at 8:42am
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Originally Posted by NorthJersey View Post

at what point does MS finally replace the failed console with a different one? and if they do, would they replace it with a "refurbished pro" or would they send me an arcade instead ?

Microsoft policy is to send you a refurbished unit of the same model that you sent in. In some cases, they re-use the guts or shell from the console you send them, but I believe it depends on current inventory.

Due to the constant recycling, it is possible that the unit they send you back as a replacement (i.e. someone else's broken and partially repaired unit) has more problems than the one you sent in. For example, they don't replace your broken DVD drive with a brand new one. Rather, Microsoft gives you the already worn (and potentially already near failing) DVD drive from another console, or will just give you the entire guts from that console. If that console had some other minor "quirks", you will now experience those too.
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post #1312 of 1622
3/29/10 at 10:55am
Saturday watching LOST on Netlix my screen went major on some pixilation then froze.
After I reset it would constantly freeze while loading the dashboard.

A little back story is that I've been getting the E74 error off and on for close to a year.
But if I restarted the machine it would play fine for any length of playing time. (zero freezing till now)
In some instances on the first start of the day it wouldn't boot and I would just have to restart it and it was always fine.

Calling 4myxbox, the tech support person suggested that my E74 error may be the hardrive or the machine and suggested to try playing the rest of the day without the HD to see if I still had the freezing issues.

After pulling the HD off and booted everything was fine, no freezing at the dashboard.
I popped in the few games that don't require HD to play and had no issues.
Tried Raiden and MW2 and played for 4 hours straight, left it paused for a few hours and went back and all was fine.

Anyone else having issue's and then it turned out to be the HD?

Looks like the 250GB HD was released just in time for me.
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post #1313 of 1622
3/29/10 at 4:06pm
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Originally Posted by DeeLux View Post

Saturday watching LOST on Netlix my screen went major on some pixilation then froze.
After I reset it would constantly freeze while loading the dashboard.

A little back story is that I've been getting the E74 error off and on for close to a year.
But if I restarted the machine it would play fine for any length of playing time. (zero freezing till now)
In some instances on the first start of the day it wouldn't boot and I would just have to restart it and it was always fine.

Calling 4myxbox, the tech support person suggested that my E74 error may be the hardrive or the machine and suggested to try playing the rest of the day without the HD to see if I still had the freezing issues.

After pulling the HD off and booted everything was fine, no freezing at the dashboard.
I popped in the few games that don't require HD to play and had no issues.
Tried Raiden and MW2 and played for 4 hours straight, left it paused for a few hours and went back and all was fine.

Anyone else having issue's and then it turned out to be the HD?

Looks like the 250GB HD was released just in time for me.

E74 is absolutely NOT the hard drive. It is the (H)ANA chip on newer consoles without the spider leg design or the GPU on the older models. Your Xbox is going to get progressively worse and worse until..."Sorry, but that console is no longer covered under warranty. Please send us $140 to fix your $100 console."

Call them and have the console repaired for E74. NOW. Do not even acknowledge scripted, yet absurd and deflecting suggestions from the CS representative in India.
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post #1314 of 1622
3/30/10 at 5:26pm
Thanks for the reply spyder, I'm not surprised to hear that those tech support guys don't know what they're talking about.

But regardless, my HD still seems to be causing freezing.
It wouldn't do any good to fix the machine just to be stopped from playing because the HD is bad.

I'm going to try it on a buddies 360 to see if it still causes the same issue I'm having.
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post #1315 of 1622
3/31/10 at 6:30am
Hey guys just a note, if you're having a game update problem, you can clear all updates from your 360 with a few clicks, they will re-download the next time you run the game.

Dashboard - - my xbox - - settings - - storage - - select your storage device and press Y for settings - - look for clear cache NOT FORMAT

This will remove all GAME updates so you can re-download them if you suspect a problem or a company pushed a bad update to your game and re-pushed a fix without bumping the revision number.

You can do it as often as you want and it won't hurt a thing.

Also if you're using a optical dongle and have the restart issue there's a thread here that's perfect. I didn't even solder anything just bent the non-connected side of pins to connect things and voila.
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post #1316 of 1622
4/2/10 at 10:34am
Alright guys, so the 1st time my xbox broke down(right when I bought it too lol), I did the X-clamp fix, worked for a few weeks, broke down again, re-flowed it with a heatgun(ana chip, gpu/cpu, board, etc.) that fixed it for about a month.

So now, the console starts up fine and all but whenever I boot up a game, about a minute or two into the game, the screen just goes to a black(usually) or a purple(happened once) screen, no audio or nothing, no red lights, lights are still green, no loud fan noises or anything. There is no pixelation before it goes to the black, blank screen, just suddenly turns to a blank screen out of nowhere. It just started happening to me a few days ago, this damn xbox is pissing me off, seriously.

Any ideas guys, should I try reflowing it again?
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post #1317 of 1622
4/2/10 at 2:09pm
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Originally Posted by beefjerky_7 View Post

Alright guys, so the 1st time my xbox broke down(right when I bought it too lol), I did the X-clamp fix, worked for a few weeks, broke down again, re-flowed it with a heatgun(ana chip, gpu/cpu, board, etc.) that fixed it for about a month.

So now, the console starts up fine and all but whenever I boot up a game, about a minute or two into the game, the screen just goes to a black(usually) or a purple(happened once) screen, no audio or nothing, no red lights, lights are still green, no loud fan noises or anything. There is no pixelation before it goes to the black, blank screen, just suddenly turns to a blank screen out of nowhere. It just started happening to me a few days ago, this damn xbox is pissing me off, seriously.

Any ideas guys, should I try reflowing it again?

Is this an HDMI console or not?
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post #1318 of 1622
4/2/10 at 5:08pm
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Originally Posted by spyder696969 View Post

Is this an HDMI console or not?

Nope, I think it might have a Falcon chip, not too sure...
All I know is that it suxxxxxx
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post #1319 of 1622
4/3/10 at 7:44am
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Originally Posted by beefjerky_7 View Post

Nope, I think it might have a Falcon chip, not too sure...
All I know is that it suxxxxxx

Doesn't matter what chipset it has in the slightest. Reflow GPU if not an HDMI console.
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post #1320 of 1622
4/14/10 at 4:40pm
He's trying to set-up his girlfriend's nephew's 360 and he's having trouble connecting to the Internet. It's a wireless router, and the router is set-up for DHCP Server, and the household connects that way using 2 laptops. He's tried dynamic, which failed...I walked him through a static address in the router's range, and that failed as well. He moved the 360 closer...in case it was a range issue...no dice; and he even tried a hard cable, with a dynamic address and that didn't work either.

I'm a PS3 guy, but I know networking...which is why he enlisted my help...but not knowing 360 I'm out of ideas. Help?

Thanks,
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