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Xbox 360: One red light flashes on the Ring of Light and you receive an error message

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Article ID:907536
Last Review:May 29, 2008
Revision:4.0

SYMPTOMS

You see the lower-right quadrant of the Ring of Light flash red on the front of the Xbox 360 console. You receive the following Error Message in multiple languages:
System Error. Contact Xbox Customer Support.
This message may also begin with an error code in the format "Exx," where xx is a two-digit number. Use this article to troubleshoot all error codes, unless you receive one of the following specific error message. In that case, use the appropriate article:
927746 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927746/) Xbox 360: One red light flashes on the Ring of Light, and you receive error E66
917874 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917874/) Xbox 360: One red light flashes on the Ring of Light, and you receive error E67, E68, or E69
927747 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927747/) Xbox 360: One red light flashes on the Ring of Light, and you receive error E71
941377 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941377/) Xbox 360: One red light flashes on the Ring of Light and you receive the "E74" error message
If one red light flashes and you do not receive an error message on the screen, this may indicate a different problem. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
907535 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907535/) Xbox 360: One red light flashes on the Ring of Light

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CAUSE

This behavior occurs when the Xbox 360 console experiences a hardware failure.

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THINGS TO TRY

1.Turn off the console, disconnect and reconnect all cables, then turn the console back again.
2.If an Xbox Hard Disk Drive is attached to the console, turn off the console, and then remove the Hard Disk. Turn on the console and test for the error. If the error does not reoccur, turn off the console and reattach the Hard Disk. Alternate testing with the hard drive connected and removed to see if the error occurs only while the hard drive is attached. For more information if the on-screen alpha-numeric error is E67, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
917874 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917874/) Xbox 360: One red light flashes on the Ring of Light, and you receive error E67
3.If an Xbox Memory Unit (MU) is plugged in to the console, turn off the console, and then remove the Memory Unit. Turn on the console again and test for the error. If the error does not reoccur, turn off the console and reinsert the MU. Alternate testing with the MU inserted and removed to see if the error occurs only while the MU is inserted.
4.If you continue to experience this behavior, contact Xbox Customer Service.
Note If the agent cannot help you resolve this issue, you must return the console to Microsoft for repair.

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APPLIES TO
•Microsoft XBox 360 Video Game System
•Microsoft Xbox

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