YOUR XBOX SERIES X WILL FAIL BECAUSE OF THIS!
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Suddenly the reason they changed the default from being in instant access mode to power off mode maybe wasn’t for the environment like they said but to prevent the SSDs from self destructing.
You can turn off the storage when the console is off if you have the sleep mode active.
@@bruhWTH43Nice advice.
@@bruhWTH43 doesn't that only affect external storage?
@@SaberKingofKnights1 both
But even if you did change the power state it’s not like it won’t delete that partition unless it explicitly states with a notice or something. Why would Microsoft take time to delete a partition that FUBRs a Xbox SSD just by changing a setting. Even if you did swap to the new power state and your drive failed, you will have to get a new SSD and even still that SSD would need the encryption key to boot. Is a HSM module but with some soft/firmware trickery
It's ironic that the Xbox has a removable SSD which can't be replaced and the PS5's SSD is soldered onto the board but can be replaced (with difficulty).
Remember when Microsoft offered advice to save money on electricity bills by recommending power save instead of instant on wonder if it was their way of fixing it without admitting there is a problem.
That was my first thought. They used the media spin machine to say its more green, but its just to delay the inevitable storage death.
My thoughts exactly
So what do we do? Sell the console? No more xboxs?
That very much feels like a shifty Microsoft non solution.
@@hazed1009if mine dies and Microsoft won't fix it for free, I'll happily go back to Sony or just stick with Nintendo. Until customers vote with their dollars, corporations won't do better.
Great video Phil, I think the software inside the invisible partition is corrupted so it doesn’t matter how many you copy that 1gb partition the next one will fail too.
Apparently what you say it make some sense but the way I see it is not like that because my thinking is that 1GB partition kept exclusively for the pairing key, so is not used to write on it frequently or even at all(for example updates and games), because there's nothing there but key. So that partition *should be in good condition.
Its still bizarre that the whole SSD failed so quickly, even with the "Always-on" option of the console. Maybe its a very low quality SSD that MS put in all Xbox Series.
It says 5563 GB Total Host Writes, that is nothing so can't understand what's the problem...
@@ryutenmen²
@@Joe3D that 2230 ssd doesn't have DRAM cache, very probably has QLC cells and also does many background reads/write. All these makes the SSD wear very fast.
Someone should get pcie protocol analyzer and find out what was accessed at boot.
I'm pretty sure the first thing will be a checksum somewhere for the key.
That would be a good starting point to reverse engineer that partition.
I had the same thought
I'd be keen to see if you can read original drive while it's frozen with freeze spray. You may have to keep spraying it during the operation to ensure it can keep reading until it's done.
I believe that could work if one of the chips are failing.
Planned obsolescence = Microsoft job security! Lol
Yeah and the PS5’s SSD is soldered.
They've been doing it with controllers and getting away with it, why not start doing it with consoles?
That's every electronics manufacturer in existence, including sony
Microsoft doesn’t even fix them?? I sent one off and they sent it to the Bosch factory in Germany.
Consoles are sold at a loss wouldn't it be more profitable to have them last alot longer ???
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Hey phil have you tried to diagnose what is failing on these SSDs? If it is the controller chip that might be replaceable with a donor. IDK that I would send that back to a customer like that but it could fix the SSD long enough to guarantee a clone. Also sometimes caps can go bad on SSDs kinda like any other electronic device.
Someone should get this to a news outlet, put pressure on them to offer SOME form of recovery. Surely some other chip in the bootchain holds updatable firmware besides just the SSD? Or Microsoft must have a recovery and factory programming tool for these, unless they write drives prior to installing.
I suggest you do the byte for byte copy again and just let it run, it might take a day or two but let it complete and finalise.
I repair mobiles..Flash memory always dies. Just because it has a limited write and read cycles life span. If you buy a SSD there is even a price tag on it. That is based on how many cycles the factory can guarantee you. The higher the cycle count. The higher the price
What do you mean by flash memory ?
You mean internal storage of the mobile or usb storage ?
@@abdulqadrakram5953 They're both NAND flash, generally.
@@abdulqadrakram5953 be it USB or Mobile phone, both use Flash memory, or NAND. Both will have a limited write cycle life span.
Yes, but most nand flash memory has hundreds of thousand of read and write cycles. A Samsung envy me m.2 980 has like 800, 000 read and write cycles that would last possibly 8 to 10 years or more depending on how many right cycles you're doing. And it's more important is it's the right cycles. Not really the recycles.
@@usguyver What are you talking about? Samsung gives an endurance rating of 600TB written on the 980 1TB.
600 write cycles.
Even their low end enterprise NVMe PM9A3 1.9TB is rated for 3504 TB of writes.
1844 write cycle.
From my experience as a PC technician in the past, the ssd's are dying not from wear itself, at least not like that, there should be quite alot of failed sectors first, and even then it wont fail right away and depending on failed sectors outside of filled reserve, it can work for years up untill filed sectors where system files are located, and still it wont lead to detection or freezeng issue when connected to different OS, unless bad sectors are accessed (not on initial initialization or smart readout), I've had a 9 year old SSD with few thousands failed sectors and insane amount of wear, that worked still, untill system corruption occurs, but no freezing and if os is reinstalled, it still worked for some time. In case of failing Xbox drives, and 99% of failed SSD's, especially NVMe, it is the controller that fails, not the memory, and it can fail in few ways, either compleetely, or not, in second case we'll have a freezes whed windows trying to detect the drive, incorrect capaciry, name of the drive, so on, abd it happens randomly with any drive, no mather the wear, NVMe are operating under higher temperatures, that lead to shorter lifespan or even solder degradation under controller chip. Another, most likely succesfull fix would be controller replacement, or data recovery from chips themselves (not a trivial task at all).
Great information, so it can be fixable
thats why I will use mechanical for data back is easier to recover always raid 1 am just an enthusiast but good enough nearly to be a technician...
@@AnonIllumi id rather solder a controller or memory to another ssd swapping platters is a nightmare and takes so much more work
I have an old 80gb HDD from back around the early 2000s, and i used it for years in an old PC until, it started making a loud clicking sound and I'd have to reset it a few times before windows loaded. I stopped using it and moved along with life... until just recently. Like literally a couple weeks ago. I remembered that i had a few things on there that are hard/impossible to find now, so i decided to see what i could do. And it's difficult but I'm managing to rescue almost all of it. It keeps freezing and slowing down.
So anyway, hard drives hdd or ssd, doesn't seem like they just up and quit on you. Unless, you *really* damage it badly somehow.
Not always. I've had customers with Kingston SSDs that are working perfectly, and the next day it is not detected by any computer at all. I've also had some kingstons that still work but unstable, and another that became read-only. I have had such a high failure rate with Kingston drives specifically that I boycott them now, its not worth the data loss and hassle.
Do you think people could possibly find a workaround for the encryption in the future?
MAYBE since new keys are generated during recovery, there may be an undocumented mechanism for entering recovery without valid keys present. Why they wouldn't program their bootrom to check for a recovery USB if no valid keys were found? Well, because the US hasn't a shred of consumer protection law or right to repair legislation- yet.
you should try to find out what update the Xbox software was on and install the same version
Is it possible that that particular partition is corrupted? If you can find the key part of that partition and copy only that part you might have the solution.
thankfully i stuck with my PS4 OG lol and didn't go to the PS5 or series X. And the best part is it still has never BLOD'd or WLOD'd so it still works :)
You could probably find a better way to circumvent the virtual environment if and when all data is accessible on the SSD.
Not easy but it's more likely then since there has to be a reason why you can't read that partition.
You can, by making a back-up of that 1GB partition when the SSD is still working.
Hope you get to the bottom of the problem. Shared your video hope someone can help.
Thanks buddy, I appreciate the support
Im wondering if the key is stored in 2 spots. ive heard of it before where they leave a checksum key at the end of the drive, which you wouldnt have and its just not reading it during OSU1 but is reading it during a regular boot.
the og xbox had a hdd lock password that caused prety much the same issue. we were eventually able to read this code from the lpc/eeprom on boot up and make recovery drives.
this is just a ms standard practice console protection /anti piracy thing.
Yep and pretty much forced you to hard/soft mod it just to replace hdd. Then why go back after that. :)
yeah it just so happens to help their bottom line by making the storage not freely upgradeable, and if you want to upgrade you have to buy the proprietary "expansion card" with the hefty markup, but masked as for "security" reasons like companies always do.
@@m4nt1c0r3s That ms make no money on
@@charlesbronson1959 They licensed it to Seagate, if you think they are not taking a large share of the 300% markup over a normal m.2 ssd you live in a fantasy world.
@@charlesbronson1959 the only way they wouldn't be making money on it is if they weren't making any sales.
Would you recommend people clone the SSD while it's good, just in case?
That's what I plan on doing now lol
The SSD wont fail due to it simply being powered on, it will eventually fail due to the amount of writes and the main culprit to cause a failure will be the controller of the drive. As for cloning a drive, regardless of encryption of the drive you should be able to clone it using some decent cloning software
Tesla had the same problem , constantly reading a writing to internal storage behind the touch screen center console, they ended up doing an update on software so this does not happen.
I speculate that MS made the Xbox Series to do constantly redundant copy and write in the background to intentionally wear the SSD. Thats the only plausible explanation for a 1TB SSD that dies in 200 days.
@@ryutenmen except it's a lie. They would all die at 200 days then but they don't. Believe what you want but if you repeat stupidity you may end up sounding unintelligent.
@@ryutenmen MS have NOT deliberately sabotaged the SSD in their Xboxes. This kid knows nothing.
@@theaustralianconundrum ok, maybe it's like you say, but to believe you, you must give us some pertinent arguments.
I had my PS5 set to output power through the front USB all the time, I never knew it kept the machine on. The fan was also spinning, just was not making any noise. Now it does, after a year...
Could just be some buildup causing the fans to work harder. This will happen to me with my computer if I haven't dusted it in a while.
What about if u put an external one in Will it work?? Or does the internal ones still need to be working??
Hi ,
Can you copy the SSD on to a SSD in the back of the console for backup so if the SSD fails you can then remove the internal SSD and reinstall a new one.
Then copy from external SSD to new internal SSD?
I'm looking forward to a next gen console but honestly don't know which one is going to last. My PS4 is fine but there are some games coming up that I kind of want.
Well a Series S is the cheapest investment if you're worried about it breaking, lol
The original Xbox had the hard disk password locked with a key that was made from the serial number of the Xbox, it's xbox live id and the hdd serial number and unless you had the first two numbers from the eeprom you couldn't change the hard disk in it. This type of thing isn't terribly new for MS.
Very reassuring !
Hi did you report this to Microsoft? If so what did they say to you?
Does this apply to the Xbox Series “X” only? Or does it apple to both Xbox Series “ S” & “X” models? If so, the solution it to not have it set to “Instant-On” for longer life expectancy?
I'd say 98% the Xbox Series S is also affected, sadly. I can't see MS using a different approach for its cheaper offering. Maybe a different SSD model is used in the XSS, but the underlying operating system is probably the same.
IMO this is criminal as most countries now have a right to repair. SSD's and all memory sticks etc fail more frequently than real hard drives ever did. Microshite really need to do something about this !!!
There's no such thing as a right to repair but more companies are staring to allow it on stuff like laptops phones and stuff like this, you still don't have that right on consoles even the ps5
@@jamesw884 i belive its in a comanys best interest to offer right to repair. the more you lock someone out of your product the harder they work to get around it to fix there device smart people keep digging and digging and if they look hard enough they just mnight find something you dont want them to find. ways to exploit the console to hack it etc.
Couldn't agree more, I'm still using my trusty old xbox one and was about to buy the series x, that's not going to happen now, what should I get? a beefy PC? Any guidance would be much appreciated :)
It strikes me that's a ram problem when you do an update it uses the rem in a different order and when you reboot every goes in its proper place with one faulty bit
Really wish Microsoft said something sooner and was honest about the reason for the energy saving power option. Just had a look at mine now and set it to shut down now when I power it off using the controller instead of using the standby option and as far as I can see there is an option to power down the drive when the console is off when standby is set
Microshaft honest ! 🤣they even said windows 10 was going to be the last name just updates from here on in ! look how that turned out !
@@mikethedigitaldoctorjarvis Nope, we weren't, they never said that. You along with many others misunderstood a comment said by one developer at a developer's conference, where he referred to how they are still working on Windows 10, unlike in the past where they begin working on the next version after one ships. They had no plans for a replacement for Windows 10, everything was more features or standalone projects like 10X. 5 years went by, leadership at the Windows team changed and they decided it would be good to start working on a new version.
Just turn it off. Not hard
I have a day one XBox Series X that is permanently left on in standby mode with auto-updates in the background, and has had a *lot* of gameplay. The internal SSD is about 3/4 full, as is the addon SSD. I have a 6TB external backup drive that has about 4TB on it. I'm a now retired electronic engineer and find it very hard to believe that these failures are even slightly common. Don't fill your SSDs and then wear levelling can do its job better. No different to PCs!
Yeah mine has been on for well over a year. Maybe turned off like 5 times. It still works flawlessly. Sure I know eventually it may break down or something but thats what happens.
You said yourself that you’re a retired EE- most users do not know about wear levelling, and to be honest they shouldn’t have to. If you have x amount of space, you should be able to use x amount of space.
They should really add additional space that isn’t even presented as usable storage so that there’s an additional buffer.
they seriously need to update the system firmware to reformat a new SSD. heaven sakes...
could i have your advice? please and thank you..I just bought a brand new series x after the first couple times playing games i started having to long press the power to get it to turn on. If i dont,the screen stays dark. the power light comes on and my tv says no signal from hdmi. I put in a repair request and was getting ready to send it in but paused to try and get some advice before doing so. Im also concerned if i do send it in theyre gonna send me ack a refurbished unit,which doesnt seem fair as I paid full price for a brand new machine. Do you think I should send it in? Is the problem going to lead to something else if I dont? anywayz...I dig your vodeos im a new subscriber...cheers mate
Very interesting video!
Maybe it's just me but it looks like he never put the heat sink back on the NVME that might have been why it was getting errors. It was overheating if he didn't have the back on.
But what limit gigabit of xbox series S and X? how to upgrade to 2.5 gigabit lan? CPU\GPU is power but not sure what limit speed on motherboard? Did xbox have UEFI\bios or what did it have? What max size of internal SSD? 2 TB or support it up to 4 PB?
Does the console have a battery and is it OK? I'm wondering where the matching data is stored and then lost once power is removed forcing
a reinstall to drive and perhaps a write to whatever chip of a match allowing the console to boot with the current drive, but once power is
removed that data is lost.
Guessing instant on is similar to hibernation, where the 10GB of RAM are written to SSD every time it goes to low power?
That'd eat up TLC flash endurance in a hurry.
You might want to look into ddrescue instead of plain dd
Have you tried booting the console with bad drive then hot swap in the new drive and proceed to update and see if it will repair disk with a lot of luck?
While you have all the equipment to test everything, could you check the following? If we use the external expansion drive on the series X, there is a setting that says: “setup to use on many consoles /swap between consoles” and another that says: “setup for use on this console”. If we choose the second, is it possible that Xbox writes that secret encrypted key/partition to the external seagate expansion drive as well? And if the internal drive fails then we could possibly disassemble the external drive, and put the nvme from it on Series X board? Could you check with an external expansion drive to see it there is an XBFS partition present there?
Oh, and I mean to test that with a working Xbox, for example if you already were using an expansion drive while your Xbox was working.
No, you cant, as the paring key between the internal SSD and motherboard is only on the internal SSD. The expansion SSD only increase the storage for games, not for OS/system files.
No. All that option does is optimise the updates for the particular hardware the drive is attached too.
So Phil, other than not using the quick boot would it be smart or proactive to get a copy of my series X ssd and keep it somewhere in case? I wonder if getting a back up of this 1gb part would save me when it fails. Thanks and cheers from Michigan(USA)
That was the ide that I had but you'd need to void your warranty to do it (though 1 year of warranty didn't help this customer.) I think after your 1 years warranty expires and if you absolutely know what you are doing and have the tools to do it I would think about copying this hardware key. Your Xbox Series console won't boot up without it.
So question for the repair guys in this thread. My series x crapped out last night. It shut off mid game and wont turn back on. The chime works and it lights up then immediately shuts off. Never even boots up. I want to fix it but don't know which part to replace any advice?
What if the DRM partition is also failed to be read? How much does MS cost an SSD replacement with a renewed DRM?
😂 FIRE! Hope the disk daughter board isn't trashed
i always use the completely shut down xbox function will this help with this problem.
so basicly i can throw my xbox away? Or might miss hear it, is it avoidable? Sry i'm not english :( couldnt hear it out all details about this. But thanks Phil for this video.
I am trying to fix my own Series X device. I have diagnosed a short due to a chip called ATMP 155. Any idea what is it and is it easy to find replacement?
Thanks for another video, thanks for inspiring me to make my own chanell about tv repair
What is the mtbf of the drives? What is the spare capacity the drive has?
isn't it possible some components on the motherboard or the ssd controller itself thats failing/killing them? if a new working drive still can't read/write properly then it wasnt just the drive fault.
Another tech said the key changes with every update? So even if you backed it up 6 months ago you'd restore that backup and because it's not the correct key from say yesterday you brick your console?
What's that tablet you're using and wich version of Unbuntu?
Mine died after 14months due to this, local shop couldn’t not repair. Manages to get 250 back from Curry’s. Extended warranty for me this time. Tossers.
I'd try a Linux desktop, with a standard ATX mainboard. i'd also try Mac OS X in a 2010 tower with an NVMe card, just in case you can somehow read the card that way.
Dakota, instant on doesn't constantly read and or write the SSD. I'm also on IT technician. I fix computer hardware and software.
I can tell you that instant on other Xbox keeps it in a very very low power state, now. You can also turn off the f****** external hard drive or you can turn off another drive. As I also have a USB 3.0 external NVMe attached to my Xbox in a two terabyte form.
Again, the instant on keeps me very low. Power state does not write and it only reads to it or rights to it when there is an update or there is a need to write to it. Otherwise it does not write to it or read it.
It is an instant on if you need to want to have a remote access to your Xbox if you're away from it and you want to basically use it as a server to play your games using remote play.
I'll be the only time that it comes on or it comes on when it needs an update or it needs updated game. Otherwise it does not write to it and it does not read it.
So you were wrong that it is failing because of it possible reading or writing.
Like other people have said in your comments, but you have not responded to. Is most likely a failed or bad controller which could fill for many different reasons. But this is not the SSD.
would it be smart to pull it out early and make a clone to another drive as backup?
yes thats a very smart idea consdiering the fatal design flaw or you can hope for a future update which will remove this flaw.
This is what I recommend doing. Sad part is that doing so will cost you somewhere around 100-200 . You can get a pretty cheap ssd to ssd cloner for about 40-45, the 2230 M.2 SSD 1t is the costly piece of this cloning puzzle, it will cost anywhere between 45-160.
Cloning doesn’t works
@@jamezxh Cloning SSD's does work, it's been done many times here by the repairer here that posted this video. The point is that you've got to clone the SSD before it goes bad. If your SSD has already failed, it's too late. I use to do this for many of my older consoles, I kept a backup of my psp's sd card, my ps2's modded HD, my OG Xbox HD and now my series X. Again it's going to cost you a bit to get the ssd cloner and the back up 1tb SSD card but it will turn out to be worth it in the event that you need the backup.
@@0errab0 you don't need to buy the SSD unless the drive actually dies. You should be able to get away with just keeping the 1 GB image on your computer/a random flash drive and only write it to a new SSD if you need to later. You also don't need a SSD cloner, just a computer with a slot for the SSD.
They must know about it because a couple months ago the released an update that put all consoles into turn off mode and if you wanted always on you had to go turn it back on
So would using the memory expansion only save the lifespan of the onboard ssd ?
I have a PS5 and have almost everything on my 2TB card ,thinking i would rather my external card die than the on board ssd.
Yea probably would help to keep the OS and games separate, that should reduce the read/write cycles on the internal ssd. I would still go a step further to completely shutdown the console when not in use instead of using rest mode/fast startup
@@ghostdragon2593 yeah I very rarely use rest mode on my PS5. The occasional time I use it to charge my controller while I sleep. I have grown to dislike both company's decisions regarding their internal drives.
I miss being able to easily swap the internal drive on Sony consoles. That was always a nice touch on their end.
Hey, I live in my Sister's basement Sir! Sorry it didn't work. A Fantastic video, and Education. Thank You COD3R! 😁
Crazy question have u tried to freeze it with compressed air liquid
I hope it doesn't happen to mine? What power setting to do you recommend
Thanks for the info, I’ll disconnect the power when I’m not using my series s from now on.
Thanks for the video ..I'm a new subscriber.. I just bought an Xbox series X for the first time..I did have my Xbox go to sleep for convenience to use for remote play but after seeing your video I changed the settings to power off. Yes it's a pain remembering to turn the Xbox on but I rather keep it around for a while. 😜
Even if the ssd is encrypted - you should still be able to make a backup of it and restore in case of a ssd failure?
yeh i think your able to clone the ssd but thats if its actually working, if the ssd dies then it seems your finished.
Just wondered if you tried with a Linux laptop use the command line tool dd to clone the entire SSD. Might be also possible to create a backup of the SSD to a file. Would obviously need a nvme/usb reader
Would it help to store all your games on the expansion pack instead of the internal SSD HDD
Hi, what tablet is it?Ubuntu compatible, nice!
They still haven't sorted out why the screen goes to fuzzy sometimes when playing games i.e. like no content on the screen , sometimes it corrects itself and other times you have too turn the console off and restart the console.
Definitely a bad ssd when causes windows to lag or lockup. Is there a way to dump the data?
Tesla had the same problem , constantly reading a writing to internal storage behind the touch screen center console, they ended up doing an update on software so this does not happen.
Phil, Where did the replacement SSD come from, Was that from another Xbox Series X or bought from Amazon etc?
In my case I have quite a few from consoles I can't fix
@@TheCod3r Ah ok and no worries, Have you tried any others or just that one because it could be that you've picked an SSD that's defective in itself, Worth trying if you haven't already of course and we know how picky Microsoft can be with the SSD / Hard Drives that there Consoles use! 😂
You could try ddrescue instead of dd the next time… it tries harder on sector errors and also skips them and tries them later - it also has a log for the progress which can be resumed at any time. Also you could set the blocksize to the actual sector size of the SSD.
Btw: if the kernel hangs on I/O… dd will have a hard time quitting.
Yeah... You'll see what happens when your SSD fails and you face several hundred $ repair cost at MS
Another reason to use ddrescue is that if dd encounters a read error it just acts like that block wasn't there so your data could end up shifted if you try and restore from an image you get from dd, ddrescue keeps track of that and fills errored reads with 0s iirc so that your data doesn't get misaligned
Would there be a way to minimise the chances of it failing? Do less transfers from external hard drive to internal? Any ideas?
My guess is don't play it for long hours, maybe 2 hours per day max, or less if possible skip a few days go out touch grass hit the gym etc.. This is the same thing as the ps5 it will also fail over time.
Most important thing would probably be to minimize hibernating gaming sessions for quick resume. Everytime you do that, it basicallly creates a RAM image on the drive. I suspect the main reason why some of those SSDs are failing this early on might be because people try a lot of games using Game Pass. Hopping back and forth between games all the time, paired with a feature like quick resume can burn through a lot of write cycles in a short amount of time.
Can those SSD just be completely cloned to a different SSD before it dies?
The voice of reason , this guy is a genius .Love the vids .
I've had my Series X since it released and it still works. What it wrong with it?
So what settings would you recommend to extend the life of our console?
No veille mode, no automatic update games and software
So years later down the road when MS no longer manufactures this console… it will essentially be a dead paperweight. And there’s no ability to actually “fix” it because of the dumb encryption.
hello . hope you are well. I have an xbox 1. but the graphics chip has failed . are you able to repair it for me at all plz . thank you mark
My xbox turns its off only after I quit games. No other problems but after I played games & press quit it turns off. I have searched & searched for solutions & don't know what to do. Can you tell me or help me with what you think is wrong & how I could fix it?
Is the ssd connected with the bios chip ?
Hi phil i have got mine set to energy saver will that stop this from happening so quickly??😮I would be lost without my Xbox 😢 I've noticed it does get very warm when I'm using it far warmer than I would let my pc ever get is that normal?Does its chips have higher thermal tolerance than pc parts?I've also turned off keep my console up to date and keep my games & apps up to date as I will do this myself.Anyway Thanks for your video I hope I have extended the life of my series X with the help of your video.
This wont happen to everyone at once. I would say that maybe after a few years it will degrade the SSD. This is a worst case scenario in the video of a complete SSD failure. As long as you unplug your console of have it fully shutdown on a regular basis it wont completely fail after a year or 2. I would recommend never turning it on Sleep Mode and keeping Shutdown on. Unplug the whole console at least once a month and let it sit for a few hours.
Regarding the heat, if the vent on the top is hot that means your console is drawing heat out of the motherboard and its a good thing. If the vent fan wasnt getting as hot as it does then that would mean that it wasnt pulling enough heat out of itself.
@@nitroxylictv Sound advice thank you 👍
MS must Need fix this problem, and make SSD replace more Easy and free for all. Like One S and One X option.
I heareed about such things on recent past, those keys exist to avoid piracy but were questioned bt lot of people if was reallt necessary...
My GPU failed on my Xbox Series S. How can I replace this? Do you provide that service?
have you seen what they sell the memory cards for? thats why.
What about those who write mostly to external memory cards instead of internal storage?
So hear me out, If I take my working SSD, clone it to a 2TB SSD, resize the partition that holds games, That SHOULD work, right?
So just to b clear how do i make the xbox x last longer ie turning it off or leaving it on stanby etc
Does this also apply to the Nintendo Switch?
Plus try holding the power button and the sync button for 30 seconds until you get 2 beeps then let go ..if the same thing happens the console needs the update from a USB stick
I wonder if you change the ssd over with the same chip that's got the boot bios aswell I'd it'll work. If that makes sense
If it is indeed the SSD, then my only thought would be that part of that 1GB partition was already corrupted. Would make sense as to why it boots to an extent and the intermittently errors out.
Either that or the (new) SSD itself is ok and the fault is somewhere else on the board along the data transmission.
if the 1GB partition were corrupted the console would fail to attempt to boot because the signature would be unreadable. If it were corrupted it would not have been able to decrypt to boot in the first place.
@@travisholt92 That all depends on the level of corruption. Working in IT I've experienced many drives that are partially corrupted and some sectors are still good.
We don't 100% know what part of the partition is required to be good for the console to attempt to boot. He only has to clone a drive for a second for it to work, so it's likely a super small piece of data. This means it could potentially on a good sector but surrounded by bad ones... Which are maybe required to read/write to in order to complete the update process...?
But unless we break the encryption we'll never know.
@@tomburnham6640 the way to know for sure would be quite simple. Backup the xbfs partition as a .img file using dd commands, open the img file in a hex editor to determine if the entire partition is encrypted or just a header and/or footer signature. If there is any human legible code between the header and footer, the entire partition is NOT encrypted making it possible for corruption within the xbfs partition. If the entire partition is encrypted and there is corruption, the partition would fail to decrypt/boot.
Eventually I'll tear my Xbox Series S apart to confirm or debunk my theories on this device. Gotta do the 1TB storage upgrade at some point and backup that xbfs partition to potentially prevent future bricking.
Setting-general-power settings
Switch power to shut down rather than sleep.
Why would sleep be the default setting?
Convenience for the tiktok generation with intolerance for waiting 20 seconds for the console to boot.
Self sabotage for max profits
Try running the dd command with conv=sync,noerror parameter i saw you got input/output error and this will keep trying.