I popped in my Modern Warfare 2 and got a message saying that I had to update the console to play the game so I did and got an "E-81 Failed Update" message.
I contacted Microsoft and tried everything they said, (unplugging the power, taking the memory card out, etc) and nothing worked, the screen is still displaying that message. It seems they want to charge me $100 to fix it, which I probably won't do since this console was a refurb from them, my original had the RROD last Sept.
Has the E-81 message happened to anyone else?