Dead Man Typing said:
Microsoft extended their 3 year warranty to include the E74 error, if that's any good to you. I'm sorry for your loss.
I have to say i'm so lucky, in a way ! It started going wrong on Saturday, all of a sudden Mass Effect 2 got blocky black graphics and lines, i thought it was the game. Rebooted, unplugged, turned back on, same thing. Picture below:
So put Forza 3 in and it was being a bit weird, not totally messed at all, just weird faint vertical line banding, also i noticed the trees "drawing in" which i'd not noticed before... Tried Mass Effect 2 again, still messed up, tried Batman Arkhum Asylum, that was messed up. Typed in my serial number to Xbox repair centre and my xbox was out of the one year warranty. One of my friends console had a CD drive problem, he sent it back out of warranty, £75 repair. I thought i was in line for that.
BUT, when i plugged the console back in one last time to try it, i got the error screen and red light. This meant i could select that specific E74 error in the online repair centre, and the invoice came out at £0.00. In other words, i qualified for the FREE repair, so i'm really pleased with that! It got picked up yesterday and is on its way to Germany for repair. Hopefully wont be too long getting it back, and when i do, first thing i'm doing is downloading the new Nurburgring track !