When we recently posted about the Xbox 360's E74 error and asked for your input, we weren't prepared for the staggering response we'd receive.
Within a few hours, we had dozens of emails from readers like you who had experienced this particular hardware failure (typically caused, according to unofficial web reports, by a loose scaling chip).
It was surprising to touch such a nerve, but what really knocked us for a loop was what we found when we started compiling the data sent to us.
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