If it was NEW, you should have returned it.  IF >1, but <3 years old, you should have sent it back.  The 3-Year warranty now covers E74.

Ok,
So i played it for something like seven or eight hours, working great. GREAT!

then after switching through maybe... three or four different games over that eight hours, i'm playing a game, and the screen gets all fuzzy, then proceeds to overheat and give me the two left lights.

i let it cool down a bit... then turn it on, it starts up. i turn it off, go outside and grab 8 or so pennies, tape'em together and put it onto the chip behind the GPU, and turn it on to get *fanfare please* the 74 error... quickly followed by an overheating (even though the fan cover is on, and the fan is a-blowin')

So i'm not entirely sure what's going on here... any ideas?

edit:
Tested it a little bit... when e74 is showing on the screen... if i press down on the motherboard pretty much anywhere, within a few seconds, the fans will speed up, and the lights will to overheating. Conversly... i drilled holes in the bottom of the metal case, so there's room to stick a little screwdriver up on into the bottom of the motherboard. So if i press there, the fans slow down. Ok, i can deduce that th eboard is probably bending due to the heat... pretty common case if i've done my research. So i'm wondering...

Could this be happening because only one of the heatsinks is sucked down by screws and the other is using the x-clamps? or is the board just warped?
Why did it work for 8+hrs after re-applying the arctic silver?
what's going on?

Last edited by graelb (0911.05 03:47:12)

No. I didn't look at the manufacture date.

Now that we've established what i SHOULD HAVE done, and didn't do. Can we work on being a little more productive? I've noticed a some people on this forum like to point out what should have happened, rather than try to focus on fixing the problem at had. You've replied to this thread twice: once to point out that i could have (but can't anymore) done something else, and once to pick at my excuse why i didn't. You haven't responded to offer any actual help, just to point out what i should have done. Can we grow up a little bit and offer some productive advice, or would you rather just have another cluttered thread arguing about how stupid somebody is?

I have a problem with my 360, does anyone have any suggestions?