It Was Good While It Lasted

It seems that my exhilaration over fixing my Xbox myself was to be short-lived, and perhaps I was just fooling myself. The Xbox crashed again tonight, this time with something known as the E74 error. Starting Friday, the graphics on the XBox would get all wonky after a short time of gameplay - like all of a sudden the anti-aliasing was turned off. Everything I was reading indicated that this was a precursor to another type of failure, and late tonight the error occurred. My last attempt to resurrect the machine will be to disassemble it once again and perhaps play it with the housing off, just to get maximum airflow over the heatsinks. I'll also tighten down the heatsink screws just to make sure that there's no more flexin' happening. But if that doesn't work, then I'm pretty much out of luck. At least I got some Batman Arkham Asylum out of it before it rolled over and died.