E79. What to do?

[sean7341]

Hey guys, I have a flashed xbox (no HDMI, hitachi drive) and it started freezing up last night.  I turned it back on after the flash and played for about half an hour without a problem.  It didn't freeze again, but I ended up turning it off and going to bed.  Today I turned it on, and it freezed after 5 minutes.  I turned it back on, and it freezed again after another 5 minutes.  Same thing happened again.  After turning one once more, it gave me an e79 error.

I read up on llama.com and it said it was either the hard drive or the internal connection to the hard drive.  I tried the hard drive in another system, and didn't have a problem.  What can I do?

[Modded Matt]

by flashed you mean modded firmware correct???


not sure about the error message, but mine did the freeze after about 5 mins. everytime I booted a game. is it the normal freeze, where it just locks up? or it it the freeze where it makes a funny noise and the screen colors get lines and destortion?

not sure about the first one, probably the e79 issue

the second type of freeze is a bad gpu. good luck with that MS replaced mine. for a fee after one year, but yours is flashed so good luck

[buickgnx]

"79 - Blocked Lines going vertical down screen - Overheating" posted by me.

[sean7341]

No lines or anything.  Just frozen screen.  Nothing would change when I pressed buttons or anything.  I had to physically turn the system off by the button on the system.

And yes, I mean modded firmware to play backups.

[gameroms]

very weird, personally ive never seen a e79,  is it the one i put the whisper fans in, and the e74 fix with the x-clamp replacement??

[sean7341]

very weird, personally ive never seen a e79,  is it the one i put the whisper fans in, and the e74 fix with the x-clamp replacement??

Yup, that is it.  I was surprised because it was working absolutely perfectly. The problem came out of nowhere.

I was told to just redo the x-clamps.

[gameroms]

i doubt that will  help any at all, if you remove your gonna need some thermal compound for the heatsinks,  they have artic silver 5 now.

[m@DDm!k3]

Speaking of x-clamps where can i get replacement bolts for them

as for your problem have you tried seeing if you could of messed up during the flashing process or one of the cables waz plugged in all the way

*lol rite when u posted i posted too got an error and i just ordered in sum paste 2 like 5 mins ago

[gameroms]

i get them at LOWES or HOME DEPOT

[sean7341]

So is there any use saving it?  Should I just sell for parts?

[sean7341]

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