Xbox broke... (1 red light of death)

[Scott]

Well I was having some issues with my Xbox yesterday and while playing CoD4, it was messing up the display with random vertical black lines. Now today I turn it on and sure enough I get a red light, although it is not the common 3 red lights like everyone else gets. I just got one red light in the bottom right corner and the error messages in different languages just saying "E74" at the bottom.

I've looked around and seen that this E74 error message is somewhat common, I haven't called Xbox Support yet, but I had a 1 year warranty from EBGames but of course that expired a few months ago, and to my understanding from the newly introduced 3 year warranty, that only covers 3 red lights.

So now it seems I can't make use of either warranty I had. From what I have come to understand I would have to send it in for repairs which wouldn't be cheap. So I am thinking maybe I could find a video on how to fix it yourself (I've seen videos where people purposely overheat it, which is supposed to be fix the solder or put pennies wrapped in electrical tape over it to push it down),

What I am wondering is if I attempted to fix it myself and did not, then I guess it would be pretty obvious when they get it that it has been opened, do you think that they would not repair it if I have tried to fix it myself. I mean breaking the seal usually just voids a warranty but it isn't a warranty in this case.
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[Perpetual]

Just say it is 3 red lights and turn it in for warranty work.
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[Scott]

[ClickFanatic]

Try claiming warranty before fiddling with it yourself. The worst thing that can happen is that they say: "no we can't help you because your warranty expired"
Otherwise, if fixing it yourself doesn't work as planned and you try claiming warranty afterwards, the worst case scenario is that they say: "your warranty has not expired yet, but we can't help you because the hardware has been touched"
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[LP-SolidRaven]

If you really really really want to try to fix it: http://www.instructables.com/i.....-of-Death/
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[Scott]

From what I have generally read it is that either the GPU or a chip called the "ANA" which apparently deals with scaling. I don't really know much about hardware but I think it is that the soldering has overheated and one of these chips aren't connected anymore.
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[ytoday]

I personally don't have an X-Box, but from what I've heard from my friends who do, if you send it in to Microsoft for repairs, they're supposed to replace it with a new chip that supposedly is "Red Light of Death - impossibe".

[pharmer4]

I think ytoday has earned the title of LP-Miner, because he's very adept at digging up threads!

Must say though, this thread has 1359 views, and 7 posts. that's like 0.5% efficiency
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[ClickFanatic]

You can't really blame new members for digging up threads. Although I would encourage them to start new ones as well.
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