The Xbox 360 E73 repair is one of the most common repairs that can be done to your Xbox. You can either decide to waste your money and send your Xbox back to Microsoft for the repairs to be done or you can do the repairs at home by yourself. That’s right, the repairs for this common error is so easy that you can do it sitting at home in under an hour and you can continue playing after that. The reason why the Xbox 360 E73 error happens in the first place is because of excessive use and overheating.

Those long hours of playing takes its toll on the console. To think of it, it would seem that Microsoft never would have expected such heavy responses from the users and never made the Xbox in such a fashion that it can take up the stress and the pressure that today’s users put it through. There is however a simple way to take care of this error. Simply turn off the power and disconnect every cable. Then take the HDD out. Wait for the components to cool down and connect them back together again. Nine of ten times it has been proven that after doing this the error goes away and you can resume playing normally.

Yes! The repair is this simple and for this Microsoft would charge you around $150 if your warranty was over. In the rare chance that this does not solve your problem, you might have to open your console as this would involve some other minor repairs to complications that would be hampering your console. Luckily, these can also be fixed at home with a little effort from your side and you do not have to send your console and wastes time and money with Microsoft at all.