E73 is not actually caused by the Ethernet port, it's a HSIO bus related error. In another word, caused by the GPU

I found this guide that fixes like most xbox failures. Check it out.
tinyurl[.]com/ny9klg

EXACT SAME PROBLEM!!!!! I can't seem to fix this problem...

0020 - Check the tightness of the screws for the GPU. Do the x-clamp fix make sure the screws aren't to tight.
i loosened the screws on mine and its worked perfect since.
Definitely has to do with the GPU though

0110: RAM error

The box that had this error was filthy. It also had a mess-ton of excess thermal compound everywhere from Microsoft.

On the epoxy on the side of the chips. All over the bed resistors. Some of it was on the ANA. Some of it was near the RAM chips.

It wasn't like a flood of thermal compound like on the epoxy, it was more of dots of thermal compound were sprayed all over the board.

When I removed all remaining excess thermal compound from the board, and did the Xclamp replacement, the box worked again.

Just thought I'd report this.

The box's info:

Drive: BenQ (Originally was a Hitachi)
Board: Xenon (refurbished by Microsoft)
Mfr date: 2006-06-06 (I doubt that's when this board was made)

He said he sent it away less than a year ago.

ERROR CODE 0020 - THERE IS A CAPACITOR LOOSE UNDER THE GPU!!!!!!! 50/50 SHOT TO GET IT SOLDERED ON GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi,
i also get an error 0102. I have repair a lot og boxes with the xclamp methode. but this box will not run with this fix. so i tried the hot air fix and it is still dead. with what temperature must i go on the board?? and what else can i do when it will not work??
i also wonder about one thing: the cpu cooling shink not heating up like normal, it is not so hot like in other boxes.

Hi,

Error 0102 can be fix with heat treatment, except you GPU BGA seat was damage like this-

E74

E74 is a motherboard failure code-you can actually reflow the board and get it working again, but the E74 will return within a couple of months. It is so bad that MS is replacing E74s that it gets more than once-and refurbishers aren't even taking them in anymore. My friend who owns a Play N Trade says that they won't even take them anymore because they are such a pain. Best bet is if you have a warranty to send it in to MS-otherwise, if you know how, reflow the mobo and see if that helps....basically at this point your GPU is no longer contacting the mobo properly and that is why you are getting an E74...reflowing fixes it for a small period of time.

Hi... ive fixed about 5 xbox 360's and i have this Elite in with the falcon motherboard what i thought was microsoft's solution to all this... i got it in with E74 so i did my usual x-clamp... it worked for about a week and then the screen started fuzzing... sometimes would boot with E74 sometimes would last 10 mins... so i did some looking into it and i believe that it was the HANA chip... so i got a heat gun and gave it a good blasting (never done it before but i went by a gude when i did it)... then i booted it up with 3 red rings. This was before i knew about the secondary error codes... so i gave up on it and told my brother (buys the broken ones) that it wasnt going to work... so i just left it but yestoday i had to attempt a reflow on another console so i got the elite back out after and then i found out about the secondary error codes... looked mine up and it was 3 Red Lights With 0103 so i looked it up and it was a cold joint or something under the GPU so i reflowed it twice and no luck... so then i heard it was linked with 0102 and i read that the penny trick on the ram chips worked for that so i did that also attempting to reflow the Ram chips and now when i boot i get an on going error what is something like 010100010101001 and it dont stop... does anyone have any ideas or have i F@%KED this one up???

Thanks in advanced

Liam

yep...i have two of those..All Falcon..none succesfully. heatgunning, reflow, oven, penny...hybrid fix all of them...none
never ending 0100010103010 (or something like that) or sometimes give code only 0103..
i think it's RAM/ANA Related (reflow with overmeasure temperature) since the GPU was OK...it "Green" for one night...and the next day those disaster came...

E73 Error code (1021) - x-clamps on the Southbridge and Reflow SB did not help: (
Can help Reflow of GPU? Or reballing?

I think your solution is a rework station . Last night I fixed a 0102 with it without any problem. runs smoothly now.

Reflow? Or reballing?
I have one, the old Aoyue 852

wow... so i tried fixing a 2 red light error 0013 with a heatgun and i did everything in wilhelm's tutorial and concentrated on the RAM chips. nothing got burned. the next day, i put my 360 together and i get 3 red lights. first time i check 2ndary code, i get 0000. next time, 0001, 0100, 0010... but the thing is that it never goes back to the 3 red lights. what's going on with my 360?!?!

oh yea, I'm also getting a secondary error code of 0100101011... am I screwed?

It's probably RAM related because i had 0013 then i focused my heat gun on the RAM chips (probably longer than I should have) and now I have the error you and the other guy have.

MESSAGE TO THE XBOX-SCENE ADMIN/MOD of this topic:


I got the 3rrod with secondary error code 0201 and fixed it by heatgunning the H/ANA chip and GPU. I believe it to be related with E16.

Also E73 is an issue with the Ethernet port yes… but I believe it can also be caused by a cold solder joint between the GPU and the Ethernet port. I heatgunned the area between the GPU, H/ANA chip and the Ethernet port and fixed the problem.

-R0st3r

i've had this error code 2 or 3 times... or something simular.....

turns out reflowing the gpu chip fixed it each time.

i've also been have successful repair with the e73 buy reflowing the
cpu chip not the southbridge chip.

e73 is a general error meaning that the communications from a device
that is connected with the southbridge is is failing startup tests.

so that could be anything to do from the hdd/gpu/cpu/ethernet port/usb ports...
pretty much anything...

but the cpu reflow has fixed this problem 3 different time for me.

When will anyone ever learn. The E73 error is specifically that the GFX HSIO training failed. It is part of the gpu edram initialization function. This has absolutely nothing to do with the ethernet controller and has been proven so many many times by people on xboxhacker. The only accurate information in this thread was taken from xboxhacker and thrown into this mess of a thread. I suggest you all stop trying to replace your ethernet controls because those are only errors E75, E76, and E77.

It's funny to me that someone can repair 0102 by fucking with the gpu. That's a memory error.

Question for you experts here...

I've been fixing RRoD for the past few weeks using the llama method of the x-clamp fix and have had 4 of them work fine.

last night I tried to do another one and it did not fix it.

I checked the error code and it is 0110 which is the E20 code.

I haven't had time to check it out since last night because it was late, but plan on messing around with it tonight. I am going to try and check out the RAM chips and see if anything looks funky on there.

But is there any specific methods that people recommend for fixing the E20 error or where I should focus my attention? I don't have a heatgun, and am not even sure where to get them or what they are, but if it will help with fixing RRoD's I may pick one up.

Where did that come from?

My first 360 lasting more than 3 years finally got the RRoD with error 0102.

Is this a GPU error or RAM error?

With my experience on about 30 of RROD console with error 0102 is GPU related.
85% of error 0102 had been recovered with GPU reflow alone.

What does reflow mean?

well i tihnk I may have jacked this 360 up for good...

it went from the E20 error (which I tried to heat gun around the RAM chips like 3x and didnt get any luck) and the last time I tried the heat gun I kept it on there for quite some time because I was getting nowhere.

Now when I turn on the 360. the center light turns green for a second then the console cuts off.

Anyone have any idea what this is, or if it's just completely dead now? Not a huge deal since someone gave me this for free.

so I got a refurbished console from someone here, a zephyr motherboard. i use a 10a 125v power cord. to my knowledge it's 203v power brick. when i plug in the console and turn it on, it gives me error 0110. However, when i leave it plugged in to my surge protector for a while, it gives me the green light. what would be the problem in this situation?

4114 is memory related. So that's strange. Why don't you try using the power brick you're supposed to with it....

and 4142 is memory related as well, part of the north bridge init. If you're fixing it by doing something else, good for you, but that's what the error means.

I'm almost starting to believe any error, can be caused by anything (looking at what fixes on what components have fixed what errors).

I'd like to throw in that I just fixed a 0020 by putting a dime in between the GPU heatsink and the rearmost RAM chip covered by the heatsink. This is all after a full reheat/reflow

Hey everyone,

I received the 2 red flashing lights today, and I fall under the "3 year warranty" but not the "1 year warranty" so Microsoft wants to charge me $100 to fix it. I've left it cool down for a full day, and then set it up on table with nothing around it and it still causes the 2 red lights.

I've read through the x-clamp fix, and I'm not the most "handy man" possible, so would it better to just pay the $100 and get it fixed, or should I just go about trying to fix it myself?

2 Red Lights means the xbox 360 is overheating.

right I know that it means it's over heating, but what should I do to fix the problem? Would something like the intercooler really work? Or is it more so a hardware problem?

usually just replacing the heatsinks thermal paste on both the cpu and gpu will fix 2 red light problems.....

make sure you clean the old thermal paste from the chip and heatsink before adding new
thermal paste.

I noticed that the 0031 error code (E13) was still marked as not yet known, I thought I'd let you guys know that I've had a few of these come to me and they were all fixable by raising the GPU heatsink about a millimeter, it seemed to have been shorting out on a capacitor to the upper left of the heatsink. Just figured I'd toss in my two cents.

We recently got a 3RL with our falcon unit after a year of usage. Some shops here near our place fix these problems, so we went and gave it a shot. I believe they did the usual xclamp fix and stuff. The 360 worked, but only for a day T_T.

Now the other day, I accidentaly left it on (while showing the 3RL) without the exhaust fans plugged in. It got very very hot, so I shut it off, plugged in the fans again and turned it on. The fans started off at full blast and the 360 started working again. This time, it lasted for about 3-4 days then the 3rl again. I did the overheat thing again, and it worked again but didn't last as long. Seems everytime I heat it up, the 360 comes out of the 3rl and starts working again.

You guys think a heatgun job will do the trick? Any guides in here showing what needs to be done? Thanks

I'm having issue getting my 1st gen Xbox fixed. I'm getting the 3 red lights, and at first I was getting the 0102 code, but then it changed to 0110. I've tried using a heatgun to reflow about 4 times, and each time the XBox works for about 3-5 minutes, then locks up and will not start up again. I'm a little confused with what could be possibly going on here, since it appears the heatgun did reflow the solder. I've also applied AS5 to the cpu and gpu.

I got the 0110 error after I applied the AS5, and before I used the heatgun btw, so I'm pretty sure the issue is with the GPU and not the RAM.

Could it be that the GPU is toasted? I can't understand how that could be the case since the heatgun does get it going for a short time. Im lost.

Any suggestions on what to try next? I was thinking a reball, but I have no experience doing such a task.

seems the 0020 error has been giving some people grief. the other day someone dropped a xbox off at the electronics repair company i work for we normally dont get consoles in and being the game enthusiast the other techs dumped it in my lap and said fix it. well it was error 0020. i am not sure how many things can cause this error but for me it was the result of someone torquing the AV jack in the back of the xbox too hard. the error was corrected after i resoldered the loose pins of the AV jack onto the mother board and forced an overheat to clear the code

Okay, I performed the x-clamp fix about a year ago. All of a sudden about 5 days ago an update for cod4 caused me to get the red rings. I took the xbox 360 apart and cleaned the thermal paste off and reapplied it, put the xbox together and for about 15 minutes it worked then the red lights came back. It showed at first the three red lights with error code 0022, then i loosed up the screw a little bit and now it is giving me two red lights and error code 0011.



I bought a console only on ebay and it will be here 4-11 days, but i really want to get this one fixed and either sell it off or keep it


Please anyone help me!
my email is patrickharris22000@yahoo.com

Then I tightend the bolts and screws on the back and got three red rings and error code 0031 HELP!

Well im a complete retard but it may help you guys out. I had a perfect running 360 ( Finally ! ) put hard drive in and it didnt set/ connect completely , heard the click but it felt "off". Loaded up , 3RRoD error 0020 !

well if a hdd can cause the same error as a loose AV jack maby it is a generic I/O fault

ok.. so i've fixed a few 360s in the past month, but i have one that is being a pain ... it started with no video but audo... solved that issue by reflowing the board... then i got it all back together after puttin new artic silver in it, playing on it for over an hour no problems.. then i put it all back together, got 3rod , error 0133... then rrod error 0031, so i loosened the screws and washers on the heat sincs where i replace the xclamps and now i have error 0020. im so confused right now with this one.. i dont know what all to do.. can someone please lend a helping hand.. i just tore it all back apart.. and heat gun'd the video ram chips hoping its going to work.. i really wish i hadn't put it back together in the fist place cuz it turned on and off fine without any errors

another stinking 0020... this one it can run flawlessly in SD, but the second the switch is flipped to HD, it pops a 0020. I let it heat up to reflow with the fans sitting on the DVD drive cooling the CPU, and they never speed up, just gently cruise along. The GPU heatsink never gets hot, and after 20 mins I figure it's just not gonna get hot so I switch it off. Leave it 15 and fire it up, works fine on SD, flip to HD, 0020. Would this be some kind of short in the AV socket/soldering between two of the HD pins?

did you try a different cable......? if you did then it's going to be the ana/hana or the gpu chip.

Hi All.....

I must say a big thank you to all of you who contributed to this thread. It is by far the most comprehensive I have seen on the net

Keep up the good work!

I have now repair quite a few of these and they are hanging together well to date without RROD issues (touch wood = belt head with large metal object-LOL)

Cheers!!!
KIWIXBOXER

Any info on E81 and how to fix it? Not very much info available so far. Can't seem to fix it with the sync button or the current version update in a USB Stick.

0020 is still as an unexplained problem. Can you update that code please? All of my friends and everyone I know try to "out-smart" me and say it's a problem with the X-clamps or that its the heat sink pressure on the chips to MS uses the wrong thermal paste (Uh, what?). All of these are wrong wrong wrong. Terribly wrong. NEVER OVERHEAT YOUR XBOX! It's a dumb idea.

The problem lies within the MOBO's power rail. 0020's signal comes from a failure in the power rail whether it be a bad solder connection or a blown cap.

OP if you have any questions feel free to PM me.

just got 3 red ring and a secondary error code, 0023 (not yet known), any leads on what that mite be.

My best guess would be something going wrong with one of the cores. It seems that most of the 002-'s are related to core's. I don't have an exact location though. I haven't had any experience with this error first hand. Check the ram and tell me what's up. It would be my best logical guess to something generally around both cpu's.