[quote name='Mojimbo']Did you fix your Xbox, munch?[/QUOTE]
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[quote name='tiredfornow']that e74 fix finally worked or he bought a new one.
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Here's what happened: I kind of don't think I can afford another xbox right now, so I gave mine another try this morning. After taking off the heatsink I noticed that there wasn't much paste in the middle. I put some more on there, let it fry, then cut it on. It booted up.
Now, I just tested it on Live. The graphics looked all wonky with some things but not on others. For instance, in NXE that avatars looked all weird, but the games you guys were playing looked fine. I could hit the xbox button and it would show up like nothing was wrong. I could play arcade games and they looked great.
I tried to play a game of NCAA 09, and while it started off ok it went to shit real fast: all pixelated and gross. I then put on another arcade game and it looked fine.
I'm letting it cool off now to see if it needed another session of reaheating and sealing. I feel like I'm going to get e74 again when I boot up.