I might have (finally) gotten a bit of good luck with the broken Xbox. I managed to squeeze some pennies under the motherboard in the electric tape\/12 penny trick that\u2019s spread across some forums and Youtube videos.<\/p>\n
This caused my completely dead box (E73) to switch errors to E74. After a short intentional overheating, the machine started up again! But\u2026it would overheat nigh immediately (after less than a minute). I would see the startup screen, the menu would load, then I\u2019d get two blinking lights and a blank screen.<\/p>\n
So now, my machine is running topless \u2013 everything is as attached as it can be when half of the cover is completely missing. This solved the overheating problem.<\/p>\n
That wasn\u2019t all, though. My DVD drive wasn\u2019t functioning well \u2013 it would say \u201cOpen Tray\u201d as the only option when a perfectly good game was in the drive. I was able to open the drive up, adjust the laser\u2019s position slightly and wipe a bit of the gunk that had somehow accumulated on the laser track. After putting the drive back together and into the system, it seems to be working now.<\/p>\n
So, my Xbox has no top cover, an extra 12 pennies wrapped in electrical tape iin the bottom, and a (temporarily) working but finicky DVD drive. But I was able to get it all functioning (at once!) tonight and played several (disc-based) games successfully as well as watch a movie on Netflix Watch Instantly.<\/p>\n
So, I\u2019d call this a possibly temporary but definite victory. Maybe all the havoc I put the internals of the system through will actually hold up. Maybe.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, I guess my gamertag is back online and I can finally participate in my co-worker\u2019s Battlefield Wednesdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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