Solutions to errors » is the E74 XBox 360 error coverd in my warranty?

Usually the warrantys are only a year. but idk. i had the same problem and had mine for a year in a half and its warranty was gone. and it cost me 99 dollars. but you should try unpluging your harddrive laying the xbox on a wood surface and leave it for a day and then try it without the harddrive. thats what my friend did and it worked

I dont know where you live, but in United States Maryland they only have one year of warranty. But otherwise if you warraty is still intact then yeah you can get it fixed for free. the thing is you have to either call xbox (1800-4my-xbox) or go to xbox.com and get a box shipped to your house to get it fixed. the thing that sucks is that it takes about 3 months or so to get another xbox back. Yeah thats right they dont give you your exact xbox back, they’ll give you the same model, but it was one that was broken a while ago that they just fixed, they do this to ensure the fastest returnal of your xbox which so far is failing in timed response, but if you decide to get another xbox in a replacement under warranty, take off you face-plate to you xbox and any other things that you have on it, make it look like as it came out of the xbox box but without a faceplate. Also dont send in your cables, games, controllers or anything they will not send it back, just send the gaming system (xbox 360). The E74 error when you start up your xbox is basically the ring of death(when your 360 is completely destroyed in some way. If you cant send it in or get it to a shop where you have to pay for the fix, the take the initiative, and take it apart and find the graphics card and have heatsink on it (you can buy at radioshack). Heatsink makes it where the heat can escape more easily and is very cheap and easy to do) look up a tutorial for it if you gunna do that. Microsoft didnt put good heatsink in teir xbox they make you do it yourself(WARNING TAKING APART YOUR XBOX WILL VOID YOU WARANTY)