Hi,I just made a new character,and this is my 6th time going to Bleak Falls Barrow. I've beaten it on all my other characters but with this guy,for some reason the pillars dont want to turn when I press A.

Its the 3 animal pillars that the one guy dies at with the dart trap. I killed him before he pulled the switch,now the game wont let me turn the pillars at all,how can I fix this? I already tried restarting my xbox and reloading the save,yet it still wont let me turn the pillars. No matter how much I activate them and press A,nothing happens,I've also tried pulling the switch and doing it,but nothing.

Am I unable to beat Bleak Falls now? This svcks :/

Do you have an ealier save, one from before the guy dies? If so, then try that save. If not, I think you may be boned.

Yeah but its 30mins behind,but I'll reload it and this time not kill him before he pulls the switch and I'll let you guys know

It worked! Thanks alot,this glitch should REALLY be mentioned somewhere,word of advice to anyone,do NOT kill the guy before he pulls the switch or you will get glitched and stuck like me.

Good luck. I hope it works out. I find it helpful to save every ten or fifteen minutes (sometimes much more often). I've lost hours due to similar situations or random game crashes, and I find that having many multiple quick saves has saved my bacon more than a few times.

This same exact thing happened to me once before. Luckily, when I reloaded the auto-save from entering the cave, it fixed the problem.

You should probably try that if you can, otherwise, things are going to be svckish.

EDIT: Late reply

I've always killed the guy before he pulls the switch, and this never happened to me. Sound more like an isolated incident then recurring bug.

I am on the PC, though.

All you should have had to do was to exit the barrow then return.
This problem is random and as far as I know it has nothing to do with killing the bandit before he pulls the mechanism.

This happened to me twice now and exiting the barrow then returning has fixed it both times.
You may now get the same problem with the dragon claw puzzle,it happened one of the two times the first problem occured.
If this happens you should only need to back track far enough to get a loading screen then return.

Hope this helps.
I also play on xbox if it makes any differance.

Oh wow thanks alot! I thought it had to do with the guy pulling the lever,now I know what to so incase this ever happens again!

I turned off the other quest markers and it worked. The second time through I didn't have any quest active escept the Golden Claw and it worked fine.

Used the fix for Bleak Falls Barrow and It worked !!! Exit the Bleak Falls Barrow and then return to the first gate puzzle. Voila

Well I took the walk back to the entrance to the Bleak Falls Barrow, exited and came back inside. It worked !!! Thanx for the fix.