by: Michael Ogunnubi

January 19, 2009

Microsoft describes the problem as simply, “This behavior occurs when the Xbox 360 console experiences a hardware failure,”…yeah, no shit Microsoft. Now let’s really get into the problem, the professional way. Experts say that it’s an AV cable error and here is a problem with the AV cable, try using a different AV cable. If the cable is known to be working then there is a 90% chance it's a scaler chip problem (the "ANA" or "HANA" chip connected directly to the AV cable) in rare cases it is the GPU.

This seems to be a error that was just destined to happen. Once a Microsoft rep told me it was because of wear and tear use? Really? To repair this error it would cost $100 USD because this is not covered under the 3 year extended warranty.It would seem it should be however because this is not a “wear and tear” issue but just regular use failure.

As the problem seems to be raising a lot lately, we expect Microsoft to comment on the error…or just some more lawsuits. We’ve contacted Xbox Support but have gotten no response yet. We may even think this recent spur of events could be the cause of the new NXE.

Tell Xbox Evolved in the comments below, have you suffered from the E 74 error?

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