wouldn't it be better to get a x-box 360 or a current edition then trying to fix a outdated system?

many 360 games cant run old games

true and alot of the old game systems can't run the new games either, that's the way they make things now days, to stay compatible you have to keep buying the new products.
kinda sucks doesn't it......

Well I couldn't afford a current Xbox Slim, so I got an Older Xbox Elite. Plenty of space and should last another ten years. >.>
I am just curious if anyone wants to take a stab at fixing it. If they can, then I can simply sell it for a little bit of cash, to offset this purchase. I have a transfer cable so I am gonna transfer all my saves to teh new system. Was taught how at the store I went to. What I like, is they didn't serve me a bill of goods, and instead just simply explained everything and what was wrong.

E 74 is the small ama/hana chip coming loose from the motherboard. It ran too hot or something which is odd, since I've had it in a well ventilated area for that entire 10 years.

You can fix it by "baking" the board in the oven carefully after a complete system teardown. Done it twice to mine, never did it a third time - I redesigned a set of baffles and added an auxiliary cooler. Since then, it had an Xecutor-III ROM installed, dual boots from a standard XBOX into XBMC, clear sided, LCD status front panel - UV cold cathode lights, yadda, yadda. In XBMC modes, it ran MAME and other console emulations and could save XBOX DVD games to disk drive. (Little Bro owns that XBOX classic)

So, can I fix it? Likely - you'd have to ship it. I can do the same trick, strip it - bake it - reassemble it adding extra cooling and a internal baffle to direct airflow properly and it will never do that again. Pro tip: Let the machine lay flat on it's feet. Do not stack them on the side - same goes for the X-360's and the Playstations. Standing upright does something funny with the airflow and the weight of their heatsink assemblies while standing on the side *WILL* make chips shift when they overheat. RROD's, E-xxx's, YLOD's - all avoidable. And keep the little buggers blasted clean with a can of air duster!!!

Well Mom pony'd up for a Resident Evil special witha 120mb drive, and I transfered all the data to the new box...How about I send you this one, and you can do whatever you'd like to it? >.> Maybe spruce it up a bit like you did yours? THis one is only a 4mb white one from ten years ago, but I'd love to see what you could do. >.> I can send you all the cordage, the box and the remote.