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[EnemyBritBomber]

hey all, so i received the e74 error a couple of days ago and proceeded through with this tutorial, although now when i turn my box on my screen stays black on the tv no flicker or anything like its getting no signal at all, pleaseeeeee help

[Gallion-Beast]

I tried this and it worked for about a week (presumably it failed because i didn't do it for long enough the first time), did it again and now my xbox keeps giving me overheating errors (2 red lights) after 4/5 minutes of being on. I tried replacing the thermal paste again to see if that would help (in case the heat gunning damaged it), but to no avail.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could try to fix it?

[Cpt Chronic]

Hey lads,

Looking forward to trying this out tomorrow..

My only question is; I havent received an E74 error yet but im sure its coming! I had 3 red rings a few months ago and used the x-clamp fix and its been great until a couple of days ago. Now, after a while of playing i start getting blue and yellow colours coming all over the screen. Ive included a couple of screenshots to show you what im on about..



When this first happened my mate who i was playing with told me to switch the xbox off and on again, i did this but when rebooted i just got a black screen.. i could still hear sound through my turtlebeach headset but none through the TV. I ripped the xbox apart and applied new thermal paste to both heatsinks and whipped it all back together.. it worked!! I was over the moon but then, after a while of playing again.. i got the same problem! It seems to only happen when the xbox has heated up a little, it can sometimes go after i play through it but it always comes back within a minute or 2. Switch it off and back on after the problem and get the blank screen, if i leave it a while it boots up fine and soon after that im hit with the same problem again.

Now im just wondering if its worth me trying to use this fix or is this a different problem??

Sorry for the long post but i wanted to make sure i gave you all the info

Thanks in advance for your help  

Zac

[xyber3364]

Hello All,
Just fell upon this forum because of this thread and this is a cool place.

One of my friends had his Halo Elite Xbox with the E74 (H)ANA chip problem,
so we did the heat gun and a hybrid x-clamp fix with a heat gun that did 600 F and 1000F
My friend is a very neat person so we covered everything with foil, and did 1 min on low power and 3 min on high power.  We did both sides with 40 minutes break in between each time.  Worked like a charm after that, I will report any other findings as soon as they come up, keeping fingers crossed.

Just as a general consensus how effective is this method, and for how long?
I am pretty sure the answer is not  100% effective and permanent but a high number would make me happy.

[p4r0l3]

Thanks for the tutorial with detailed pictures! I used the same 'el cheapo' heat gun as the OP, set mode to Low (up to 750 degrees), only heat gunned the highlighted area on the bottom of the mobo. Heated it for about 2-3 mins, then cooled down for 10 minutes.

Booted and is playing games fine!

[madmax22]

Old thread, same problem... Xclamp fix, can I just over heat it like you would doing a 3RROD fix with xclamps or do you HAVE to use a heat gun?

[mic-b]

Hey, everybody! I just went through this whole process myself with complete success. I've done the X-Clamp fix I don't know how many times; but this is my first E74. I posted my write-up on my site with photos and video of how I approached the reflow. If you wanna check it out, the url is: http://blog.mic-b.com/?p=529

I've got a shoutout and a link to this thread, and I hope what I've posted can maybe answer a few random questions that are laying around here or help someone with a step in the process. Anyways, a big thanks jimwross. Your a life saver.

Mic-B

[Claart]

Thanks jimwross, i finally got my 360 going only after doing your method.

i previously heated chips before assembling heat sink, (the same way i tend to fix the dreaded RROD, tried 3 times, xbox would boot up then the screen goes fuzzy within a couple of mins.... i was almost ready to bin it, so i gave your method one last crack put cleaned chip & heat sink,,, repasted,,, screwed back to motherbord,,, whacked my heat gun on area as you pointed out,,, let it cool down...

Then blow me down with cotton socks,,, back online playing CODMW2 for last 7 hours,,, & its still running sweet...

cheers man

[bobsaget0706]

The problem with my Xbox is that i have video but i can still here the sound. Someone earlier said that putting pressure on the ana chip will fix this. so i took my xbox apart added pressure to the chip and my xbox worked. Is there any way to keep pressure while i close my xbox so the problem does not return

[MadMaxGR]

QUOTE(bobsaget0706 @ Jun 6 2010, 10:17 AM)

The problem with my Xbox is that i have video but i can still here the sound. Someone earlier said that putting pressure on the ana chip will fix this. so i took my xbox apart added pressure to the chip and my xbox worked. Is there any way to keep pressure while i close my xbox so the problem does not return

The best is to reflow the HANA/ANA chip.

[spicydeath82]

QUOTE(madmax22 @ Feb 14 2010, 05:43 AM)

Old thread, same problem... Xclamp fix, can I just over heat it like you would doing a 3RROD fix with xclamps or do you HAVE to use a heat gun?

You need the heat gun. just letting the console over heat will not reflow any solder. heat guns are cheap, just get one. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[jrw]

QUOTE(wllazer17 @ Apr 13 2008, 12:13 PM)

I told my brother how to do this over the phone to fix his xbox.

It already had the xclamp mod that I did to it... So took off the heatsink of the gpu and tin foiled around everything except the blue area in jimwross' picture below:



He had an old heat gun that only had low or high setting so I told him use low.

He heated in circular motions around the blue but focused most of the time on the red square, all for a total of 3 mins.  Hooked it back up after an hour and it works!  Did not need to heat the top.

Thanks everyone I think this is the best fix for E74 errors!!!  Hairdryer on ana chip is only temp fix

If I did it I would have taken pictures but I only told how to do it over the phone so I don't have any, sorry.  

I just did this to my launch 360 (oct 2005 build) and it worked! I was getting E74 error, I tried xclamp fix,pennies, towel trick, regreased gpu / cpu and still no luck, So finally I tried doing exactly as described in this post (only did bottom, removed gpu heatsink,cleaned off gpu grease before using heat gun). I also put foil around the blue outline areas just in case.

Not sure if this is a longterm fix but still must say Thanks for the info  

[Syn201]

I was fortunate enough to buy e74 still in warranty and seal not voided il give this a try if i buy another one that isent in warranty ,fixed two rrod ones with xclamp this week  
7 hours playing cod jesus man take a break ..

[spicydeath82]

hmmm, i did this and it worked great for two weeks... guess i didn't do it long enough, just did the underside again and i'm contemplating doing the chip side once it cools down just to be sure. i'll of course mask off the caps and all that with tinfoil and tape.

[coldengrey]

Am hoping someone can help me make sense of this...

Initially, had E74 with 2 or 3 red lights (forgot by now)- did the xclamp fix.
When I hooked back up to test, I had just 1 red light E74.

Does this mean I didn't achieve correct even pressure with the bolts and washers (over tightened perhaps- the board seems a little warped when placed back in steel cage I/O's not lined up really well)
BTW just how tight should those bolts be torqued down???

I tried the heat gun method after got the 1 red E74 but nothing- have repeated a few times- perhaps not getting quite hot enough?

thanks for any help in advance,
Jason