Not content with frustrating customers over the RRoD, or Red Ring of Death, a common problem found when general hardware failures brick an Xbox 360 gaming console. Now Microsoft have expanded the warranty on so called E 47 Errors. Apparently the console has “general hardware failure that is associated with three flashing red lights error on the console.”
I had a similar problem and i actually looked up various technical manuals and ripped open my 360 to repair it. Realizing that it was nothing more than thermal expansion and a fault in the securing of screws in and around the GPU of the device, i fixed the issue within a day or two. The only problem i had was that i bought it used, so the offending company and Microsoft didnt see a reason to cover my console under warranty….leaving me to do the dirty work myself.
You would think after thousands of hardware issues that someone would have fixed these specifications on the production side. Apparently consoles are shipping out with more advanced chips than those at launch, making the errors less frequent, but in this day and age it would seem to be a more viable option to just fix the issue all together.
If you are experiencing an E47 error, please visit the Microsoft Xbox 360 support site for more details on what you can do to correct this issue.
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