You were playing your Xbox 360 the other day. You may have been playing an online multiplayer game or been immersed in a single player mission of a blockbuster game like Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Either way, your prized piece of high-tech hardware is known as Xbox 360. froze and to make matters worse, when you try to turn it back on, you are presented with a blinking red light and your TV screen says “System Error, Contact Xbox Support”. This message then repeats itself in many different languages ​​and at the bottom it says E74.

It’s depressing to say the least. Your future for video games does not look good! Don’t worry. It has happened to hundreds of thousands of other avid gamers. The good news is that Microsoft knows this is a problem and that the dreaded E74 error message is covered under warranty.

First, let’s see what has caused this tragic error and is it tragic in the eyes of a player. His system just died. The cause of this error is that the main graphics processing unit or GPU has come loose from the motherboard. How could this be? The 360 ​​can get hot, really hot, and when it does, some of the solder that holds this chip in place can melt. The motherboard can bend slightly from this heat and the next thing you know, one of those little pins at the bottom of that magic chip has lost contact with the motherboard.

So what do you do if your 360 is no longer under warranty? You fix it yourself! How?