[Answered] Cut my losses?
I'll apologize in advance for the wall of text. I am a total noob on the 360 mod scene and I'm not sure what information is helpful here.
Too Long Didnt Read: Purchased RGH Falcon with HDD from Craigslist seller for Christmas. 3 weeks later E74. Blames me and says I need a slim, which he has for a cost.
Cliff notes version here as best I can: For Christmas my wife decided to purchase an RGH Xbox 360. It was a Falcon with a 160 GB HDD (he had disassembled the case for the HDD and inserted a 160 GB as it only says 20 GB on it) and he told me it has a cool runner in it. I loved it, but the problems started early. On Christmas, it froze after about 2 hours of moderate use (inserting my game discs and backing them up to HDD for about 30 minutes, playing for the rest of the time) and then would not boot at all. He responded to this message, said some wire had come loose from the GPU and that he could have it fixed no problem. He repaired it for free and everything seemed to be fine.
Then on Saturday as I was playing a game the graphics went weird into little blocks and froze. I rebooted the console and instantly got an E74 error. I bugged the guy on Saturday and finally got a hold of him on Sunday. Long story short he tried to tell me that Falcons can only be played for about 2 to 4 hours at a time and that with the amount of time I spend on my Xbox (4 hours a night, rather it be watching tv, netflix or actual gameplay) that the console just cant handle it. He now says he has a RGH slim that he could move the HDD from the phat case into and that it wouldnt fail on me. He of course wants another 150 to do this.
So finally my question: Should I look into a repair for the falcon or just cut my losses and get a slim? I've read some of the services thread and I could get the Falcon repaired for between $75 to $100 but with how much I use my Xbox I dont want to pay for a repair that will only last me 6 months. I've thought about trying to sell the Falcon for parts and getting a Demon (the switch for retail, switch for RGH one) installed in my slim but I'm not sure how much upkeep that requires.
Thanks.
Edit: I noticed from reading other posts about e74 that this might help: It does boot to Xell when I press the eject button. I get a blue screen with my dvd key.
Edit 2: Looks like I will be sending my HDD from my Falcon and having it installed on a new RGH box based on the advice I was given here. Thanks guys.
I'll apologize in advance for the wall of text. I am a total noob on the 360 mod scene and I'm not sure what information is helpful here.
Too Long Didnt Read: Purchased RGH Falcon with HDD from Craigslist seller for Christmas. 3 weeks later E74. Blames me and says I need a slim, which he has for a cost.
Cliff notes version here as best I can: For Christmas my wife decided to purchase an RGH Xbox 360. It was a Falcon with a 160 GB HDD (he had disassembled the case for the HDD and inserted a 160 GB as it only says 20 GB on it) and he told me it has a cool runner in it. I loved it, but the problems started early. On Christmas, it froze after about 2 hours of moderate use (inserting my game discs and backing them up to HDD for about 30 minutes, playing for the rest of the time) and then would not boot at all. He responded to this message, said some wire had come loose from the GPU and that he could have it fixed no problem. He repaired it for free and everything seemed to be fine.
Then on Saturday as I was playing a game the graphics went weird into little blocks and froze. I rebooted the console and instantly got an E74 error. I bugged the guy on Saturday and finally got a hold of him on Sunday. Long story short he tried to tell me that Falcons can only be played for about 2 to 4 hours at a time and that with the amount of time I spend on my Xbox (4 hours a night, rather it be watching tv, netflix or actual gameplay) that the console just cant handle it. He now says he has a RGH slim that he could move the HDD from the phat case into and that it wouldnt fail on me. He of course wants another 150 to do this.
So finally my question: Should I look into a repair for the falcon or just cut my losses and get a slim? I've read some of the services thread and I could get the Falcon repaired for between $75 to $100 but with how much I use my Xbox I dont want to pay for a repair that will only last me 6 months. I've thought about trying to sell the Falcon for parts and getting a Demon (the switch for retail, switch for RGH one) installed in my slim but I'm not sure how much upkeep that requires.
Thanks.
Edit: I noticed from reading other posts about e74 that this might help: It does boot to Xell when I press the eject button. I get a blue screen with my dvd key.
Edit 2: Looks like I will be sending my HDD from my Falcon and having it installed on a new RGH box based on the advice I was given here. Thanks guys.
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