toothpick trick<\/a>, it has started working again.<\/p>\nBut I\u2019m sad. I think something in the internals has gone bad and my guess is that it has to do with the solder that holds some important connection together.<\/p>\n
I want to have a more permanent fix (as the toothpick hack only seemed to last a week or so), but my 360 is out of warranty. I may open it up myself and see if I can find some cracked solder or loose connections and fix them. After all, there\u2019s no warranty left to void, right? And sending it back to Microsoft to fix for $99 is pretty ludicrous.<\/p>\n
I know it\u2019s old hat when it comes to 360s now, but what shoddy construction. I don\u2019t feel like I did anything wrong in terms of caring for it, and it\u2019s only a little over 2 years old.<\/p>\n
I guess I\u2019ll just be playing my Wii in the meantime. And teaching myself basic soldering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My Xbox 360 is flashing one red light and giving me an E73 error. I got this once before (about a week ago) and again tonight. Both times, if I overheat the console using the toothpick trick, it has started working again. But I\u2019m sad. I think something in the internals has gone bad and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[43,208,25],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-microsoft","tag-sad","tag-video-games","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}