>>E74 is not "on the rise", it has stayed as steady as ever. 3 red rings of death are declining with >>the new designs (they were pushing close to 100% failure rate within 3 years for the first >>generation), so other problems are finally allowed to surface since the consoles actually stay >>running long enough now.
Just don't know about this. I got an E74 on a non HDMI one recently. It was the GPU. Microsoft definitely changed something in xbox error reporting recently. The newer HDMI consoles seem harder to keep fixed vs the older ones, whether RROD or E74. I think they actually went DOWN in quality.
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>>E74 is not "on the rise", it has stayed as steady as ever. 3 red rings of death are declining with >>the new designs (they were pushing close to 100% failure rate within 3 years for the first >>generation), so other problems are finally allowed to surface since the consoles actually stay >>running long enough now. Just don't know about this. I got an E74 on a non HDMI one recently. It was the GPU. Microsoft definitely changed something in xbox error reporting recently. The newer HDMI consoles seem harder to keep fixed vs the older ones, whether RROD or E74. I think they actually went DOWN in quality.