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My Xbox 360 S wont turn on, but it makes a beep when I touch the power button and eject button. The power supply light is a solid Orange, and the USB ports look good. (nothing touching metal-saw this was a issue on youtube). I’ve done everything that Microsoft said to do, like unplug everything, change outlets and still nothing. This is what happened: I turned it on, everything was fine. there was a update, so I did the update. It loaded fine. i was at my home screen and the wife wanted to watch a movie so I went to “my video/movie”. it just kept on loading and wouldnt load. So I turned the xbox off, and went to turn it back on and it wouldn’t work. HELP PLEASE. My warranty expired 5 months ago…my luck!
Check the power ribbon. I repair these all the time and most of the time I have found bugs have been in there and left feces behind on the power ribbon which eats into the plastic. Yes bugs fecal matter does eat into the power ribbon and I have replaced or cleaned 50 or so that had this problem. I even found a spider leg shorting out one of the bare ends where it plugged into the RF board. Inspect the cable and Clean both sides well and put it back in, sometimes works. Other problems include USB, the RF board and as stated the hard drive. I have only seen one that had a blown resistor on the board out of 50 or 60 I have repaired. It’s almost always something simple. Thomas; You can get the power ribbon for $4.50 on eBay, its always worth a try since it worked when you replaced the RF module it stands to reason it’s something to do with the power ribbon connection. Not the power supply, not the RF since you changed it, not the common USB short, all that’s left is power ribbon or MOBO (and as I said that is a one in 50 chance). I really hope this helps.
I don’t think the problem is with the RF module like Wade suggests. From what I can tell it’s either a short in one of the USB drives, or the power brick is fried. You can find tutorials on how to fix a USB drive short on YouTube. Before buying a new power brick, I recommend plugging it into different outlets or borrowing one from a friend to test it out. Late answer, but hope this helps.
mine was doing da same till and yesterday i decided to open clean it. after that i didnt connect da front panel and to my surprise no beeping sound. it worked like a charm
Hi, I had the same problem with my daughter’s Xbox. They had bent some of the pins on the usb port on the front. Where the pin had bent it had touched the metal casing. I simply bent the pins up and away from the casing. Once done and plugged back in it worked perfectly. Hope this helps some one!!
Thomas, I have one in for repair right now that is doing the same thing. I think I narrowed it down to the RF module. They are around $15 on ebay. Worth a shot.
It is a very concerning problem issue when you first hear this pinging (Beeping) sound coming from your xbox. I first heard the sound yesterday, and although I didn’t like the sound of it – not the sound itself, but the fact that it was making a sound when it shouldn’t be. Anyway, from then to now. Again, I plugged my xbox in for a bit of time travel and after a while it makes the pinging (Beeping) sound again. I didn’t think too much of it this time… until, that is, I unplugged it for the night: and that was that, I thought? I Unplugged it! Being unplugged it couldn’t possible be the xbox, so I looked at the power supply only to see an orange light where a green light should have been - so it’s a power supply issue, after all, so some one already mentioned up above in this here forum. But at the time of reading that information I didn’t really know if that was the issue or within the actual xbox itself… Unplug your xbox machine from the actual power supply itself (the brick as it has been called), but leave the power supply (the brick) connected to the mains outlet to conclude this information for yourself. I would recommend being very careful if a red light shows on you power supply rather than the green light it should be. Good luck!
I just blew on it and it worked
Mine does this when I move my xbox, if you have something hooked into the side USB port, unplug it and turn it on.
Wait 10 seconds. Important Be sure to wait 10 seconds. …Firmly plug the power cable back into the electrical outlet and the power supply. Do not plug the power unit into the console yet.Check the light on the power supply.Check the light on the power supply.Is the LED on your power supply unit on, off, or blinking? Regards, Lewis
Mine is doing this too, when i plug it in the power LED’s flash and it’ll chime when i press the panel. I’ve tried everything and i just wanna know whats wrong. Any ideas to pinpoint this one?
I had this same problem after a power outage. I unplugged the Xbox from the wall and waited for the orange light to fade out. I disconnected all of the cables (including the Xbox connect) from the Xbox except the power cable. Once that was done I plugged the power brick back in and powered up the Xbox by touching the “x” button. It came on at full power and I plugged all of the cables back in.
I had a faulty usb wire from those skylander sets, reccommend to unplug ever thing from the xbox to include all remotes and then unplug power from the wall, then hit the power button until it quits beeping this will power your xbox down all the way , then plug back into the wall and your xbox should come on
Maybe because you watched a movie.Your Xbox 360 update got cancelled and also the previous software is gone with it so now the xbox doesn’t have any software to start with. I had the same problem. I recommend you to visit microsoft centre for this problem.
Had this issue found i had a bent pin on the cord that connects to the console easy fix phew thank god
You have to blow in the air filter and press the On button often as you can. When you do this 3-8 times it works
I had this problem as well. I tried all the power supply tricks and nothing. Believe it or not how I fixed it was silly. Very quickly after hitting the power button manually, hit the eject button a few times. That’s all it took.
On further inspection I had noticed that one of the prongs in the plug part that’s connected to the power socket was a little bent I straightened them and wahhlllaaaahhh fixed. I hope this helps someone
Hold the power button down for about 30 seconds - It will reset the xbox for the display.
Check USB port on front. Mine did the same thing and looking at this post fixed it. I had 2 prongs bent down and touching some metal grounding it. Flashlight and a knife. Done deal
Have a close look at the power cordin the backnof console mine W a tiny bit bent (but was still able to plug in and turn on) I straightened it up and it’s been working perfectly ever since
I unplugged EVERYTHING from the Xbox 360. Power, internet, all usb peripherals. Then plugged in ONLY power: Xbox came on like it should. I then went on adding 1 thing at a time to test each thing: powering the Xbox off, plugging in new item, powering it on, until everything worked fine. It is working like it was before.
