I’ve told people that I wouldn’t buy an Xbox unless I found one for around $50. Well I went over that mark by about $11.
I bought a complete Core system that was broken off of eBay. I’m going to attempt to fix it, and then mod it. Engadget reported today that the new IXtreme 1.5 firmware works on basically all of the Xbox 360 drives, so that shouldn’t be an issue.
The key here is me being able to fix it, if I’m not able to, I’m not real worried. I love to experiment, it’s what I’m good at. I will keep updated posts here in the near future, this is just a heads up. The error code as reported by the seller, (A seller that exclusively sells broken items) is E73. I’ve found the details on this here. I’m not afraid of soldering a few things if need be, I’ve already installed modchips etc. If I can’t fix it I’ll just send it right back to eBay 
Should be interesting, I’m looking forward to it.
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“… All we did was leave it on green [...] for about 2hrs then turned it off then on again, and it amazingly worked.”
First result on Gooogle… wouldn’t be surprised if the owner hadn’t tried that already though. Couldn’t hurt anyway
I’m sure I’ll be trying lots of different things to try and get it to work
I’d be amazed if it was a simple fix, but you never know.
Good luck man Can’t wait to hear how it turns out
Wow! That is quite a challenge huh but I do sense a strong determination in you. Good luck and hope the next post is the success of this case. ^^
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I’ve checked it out, and it seems like a lot of the methods for the 3RROD will work for this issue, since it’s usually caused by the same problem. (cold solder joint)
Also, I found that my SATA port will work with flashing it, I’m not up on all the details about firmware modding yet, but it shouldn’t be all that difficult.
I wanted a 360 controller for my PC, figured why not get the whole Xbox for a little more?