Xbox One taking forever to start up

fudgebar · Oct 8, 2023

As I'm typing this it's just sitting on the black screen. It just started today, completely fine before now. I turned it on and it sat in the beginning green with the logo for a while until i gave up and tried to turn it off, but even that took a while. I tried again a bit later, same thing, except I decided to unplug it for a couple minutes and then plug it back in, and it automatically turned on. Still took forever so I turned it off again. This time it stayed loading for about 10 minutes and it's been on a black screen for about 8 now. I think I have some energy saving mode on but it's never taken this long. Any help would be great.

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The_Last_DJ

Hello Fudgebar! I'm Kris and I'd be happy to help you with your question.

Sorry to hear you are having issues. Sounds like it could be the HDD could be failing. Have you tried going into Safe Mode and reset the Xbox and keeping games and apps?

Irixion

Try booting with the HDD removed. If it boots quicker, it could be an issue with the HDD. If it still is slow, try booting without an internet connection. The Xbox sometimes waits for an internet connection.

If you can, try updating without an HDD in (some updates can go through, while others can't), then try it again.

Cthoms81

If none of those things work it make just be the xbox it selves getting old. I have had xboxs that do this. I would prepare for a new xbox while it still works

Georges C.

Hello, first it's a pleasure to be able to help you today.

My name is welcome to the community.

Hello Duane, I don't know how long your Xbox One S has been in its way, but depending on how long it may be slow cause of dirt inside it (dust), this consequently compromises the cooling of the console.

If you've tried both types of factory reset, keeping games and Apps and erasing everything, and it's still slow and slow to start and slow to navigate menus, it may need an internal cleanup.

Mister Cerb

Hey there Mr Doggin!

I'm sorry to hear about the update issues. Let's see what we can do to get things sorted.

To start things off, here's a few questions to help us better understand the situation:

Are you able to access your dashboard at all?
Does the prompt for the update appear as soon as your console is turned on?
Does it still give you the black screen if you decline the update?
What style of console are you using (Original White, Xbox 360 S, Xbox 360 E, etc)?
What type/size storage device are you using? Is it an official Microsoft storage device?

Let us know and we'll work with you from there! ^_^

Xbox One taking forever to start up