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Has anyone figured out exactly what is causing the problem with Xbox Ones that power on, and immediately power off. The power brick is lit orange which instantaneously turns white once the Xbox is turned on directly from the console, but immediately powers off. This is a very common problem that Microsoft will not discuss.
Actually 4 years later I found the answer, it’s a bold accusation but it’s accurate if you’re a techie. Microsoft makes faulty power bricks, that way at a max of 5 years they die out, or rather the electrical glue (unscrew the power brick to find white stuff all over because in most they don’t care to use small amounts to hide it) basically over time your brick heats up slowly melting the glue to block off circuits, if you send it in for repairs normally they just fine you a ridiculous amount of money and either replace it, or just heat up and remove some of the glue so it’ll happen again, so they have people needing more fixes, ironically you can say also the problem comes from shoddy soldering and the glue can block off parts that are soldered shut, so basically it blocks off the electrical current and to fix it either heat it up or send it in, the fact noones sued them yet is surprising because people should be able to turn these in to get full refunds, but even if yours is GameStop warranteed that ends once the brick is opened up to be sure that’s the problem, so long story short get a new brick or get it repaired iFixit also has a Xbox One Turns Itself Off wiki and it does mention that the power bricks can go bad.
So my friend had the same problem and he put a hair dryer up to the vents and blew out all the dust and turned it on and it worked
Hi, Andre. Try a different power supply (brick and cable), these commonly have capacitors fail on them. If the problem persists even with a known-good power supply, the problem is internal. I’ve seen the internal power supply unit itself, the “southbridge” IC, the APU, and one or more of the MOSFETs and other components on the voltage rail be at fault. Here’s a standby voltage diagram to help you narrow it down to the correct component. Hope this helps, good luck! http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=25g44sj&…
if nothing above fixes your issue, I fixed it by cleaning out the little vents in the power brick with a toothpick and now it’s turning on. I tried this after I cleaned my console and nothing happened. This is how much dust was in one of the vents.. lol Hope this helps!
If system turns on for a second and than off it could possibly be a bad wi-fi card, that would be best case scenario, worst case is Motherboard needs to be replaced. If the system goes into the user interface and than shuts off check to see if your fan is operational and if it is than replace your rf module and front panel.
Had this problem. One of the power cable ports had a bent pin causing it to not contact correctly into the console.
Maybe it’s the thermal past on the heat sync. When it wears away, the heat is directed to the chip. Or one of the components on the inside which controls the voltage has blown.
Its a heat distribution problem. Most likely the fan and other cooling components on the console are not working. If its not that then its definitely the motherboard/logic board that has an issue. I have heard it is relatively common for the Xbox One S fan to break though… Update: After testing a device that ran into this issue I concluded it was a issue with the console overheating. By removing the casing and putting an external fan up to the Xbox it fixed the issue.
I just had hat problem and i just took the power cords apart( spearated them from the brick) for about a minute then put them back together and it started working again.
I would check the power cable and make sure it isnt getting hot. I would then make sure the power supply fan is turning that way you know its on and not going to overheat. that should diagnose the power supply and the temperature. anything farther will probably require opening it up.
I faced same problem in xbox 360 , power brick fan stopped working so 360 console wont power up more then 5 seconds , replace new fan and enjoy , yur power is ok and problem gone .
This fix works 100% for me: unplug your power brick and look towards the male plug. Next carefully widen the space between the two male plug to make a tighter & more snug fit when you plug the power cord female end in again. I discovered this , as noticed that if I listened carefully, I could hear arcing (snaps) as the cord was moved even sightly and the problem would manifest itself (aka power down). When I performed the above-mentioned fix, it is good-to-go! Good luck and again, be careful not to break those male plugs on the input of your power brick.
I have this issue with two Xbox ones and both times it was a bent HDMI port . Pretty easy to fix , just need to be gentle . Hope this helps.
I think it’s simply a safety feature where if the fan doesn’t engage it cuts off … all the debris and dust probably is the cause. Great reason to get that computer duster stuff …
The problem with the original Xbox one consoles that had a problem like that was the main filter capacitor in the power supply brick. I have replaced many of those to successfully repair the problem. On the One S consoles it is either the main filter capacitor in the power supply box inside the unit or the three filter caps on the main board right where the power supply box connects to the motherboard. Simple fixes for anyone with some soldering experience.
i took it apart and the hard drive was not plugged in so i plugged it in and now it works! Update (02/14/2019) i took mine apart and the hard drive was not plugged in. when i plugged it back in it worked perfectly!
I had this similar issue but I got a used broken xbox one off of ebay for cheap thinking it was a cheap fix. I ultimately had to buy the used motherboard and blue ray drive combo kit for 99 from ifixit in order to get this to work. There was a bad capacitor broken off the motherboard from the ebay xbox one. After I replaced the board I of course had to do the offline update which was the 4g ntfs fix. Basically reinstalling the os manually from a thumb drive. I basically wanted to fix it knowing that I can fix it since it was fighting with me. For the hair dryer method that seems all wrong in many ways and it shouldn’t work. If you blow hot air into the back of the xbox that is and can cause more damage. I would almost think the board gets too hot and the caps heat up and leak or get damaged due to a bad design or bad parts. My board from ifixit had different parts on it and looked newer or refurbished from the other board that was bad but I did resoldering those parts on and it did work but due to the xbox one probably being knocked off a shelf in rage the board was just bad. The board swap was pretty easy and just takes some time. The sharp aluminum edges almost sliced my hand open a few times but I got all done without issues. The screw replacement kit was also a good idea but didn’t come with hard drive screws. Will be buying more stuff from ifixit again and again. Thanks
Try taking out your power switch and then turning console on if you need to plug the wire into the controller and into the console and power on after I removed the power switch is stop shutting off and stopped beeping on me
My xbox turns on makes a disc eject noise abd turns off at the startup screen
My xbox one original turns on for a second and turns off immediately the light on the brick turns white and goes back to orange I tried everything (hairdryer, vacuum) nothing seems to work. I tried the power brick on my friends xbox and it works fine. Sometimes the Xbox works like nothing happened to it and then it doesn’t work. I’ve also taken the case off to make sure it doesn’t overheat and nothing.
So I’d gone outside and left my xbox on and when I’d come back it’s was turned off so I tried to turn back on and it’s made the power up sound and just won’t turn on, the light on the Xbox turns white and the power brick goes from red to white back to red. I’ve tried cleaning out my xbox and the power brick but nothing seems to work . It turns on and then after about one second turns back off. Anyone got any ideas why
Use Blow Dryer! A Blow Dryer Might Work
For me the solution was chagning the thermal paste of the transistors. Just open the brick, unscrew the transistors, remove the old thermal paste (used small pliers) and applied new thermal paste. Screwed things back on and SOLVED!
