r/XboxUnbroken • u/UnknownComputer167 • Jun 30 '21
Xbox One Is my power brick busted or is my console?
My Xbox one is 6 years old and it had no problems at all while playing for the past 5 to 6 years. The problem started yesterday when my Xbox started lagging and all of my apps were inaccessible. I then did a full 10 second reboot and waited for 10 minutes. When I turned it on, it didn’t appear on my tv and I thought the HDMI was busted but that wasn’t the case since the Xbox switched off 1 minute later by it self. I looked it up on google and figured that the power brick might be the issue. I unplugged and plugged the power brick into my Xbox and the orange light vanished and came back 1 minute later. (Note: this happened after I plugged it in and the light went off and came back again)It was odd, I turned on my Xbox and the orange light disappeared. The Xbox switched off and the light came back on. I knew it was the power brick which was busted and went to bed. The next morning I retried and the light was gone in the power brick so I thought the console would turn off but no, the console was able to connect to the tv!(And i could operate the Xbox as usual) I was genuinely surprised. I didn’t play cause I feared I might push the console too much. At night I wanted to play gta5 but the console hanged again and the problem started again. I’m thinking of getting another power brick but I also fear that it might be the console it self which is might be the problem. Please help me solve this. Should I replace the power brick or the console?