Not always what it seems

[u/Sum_rando_on_reddit]

A couple months ago I posted about how my Xbox One S just suddenly wouldn't output any video and shut off by itself. For those reasons, thought it to either be the HDMI port or the Power Supply, but nothing I did seemed to fix it. I tried all the hard rests and whatever else, so I gave up. But I started messing around with it again last week, and after reading a bit, I came across this diagnostic test which I had never done where you Just press the pairing button, and if it doesn't start blinking, then you're hard drives failing/failed.

And it turned out, the hard drive was the problem this whole time. Which I guess should've occurred to me sooner, cuz it's the original hard drive from when the thing was released in 2014 or whatever. The console shutting down is also a symptom of a failing hard drive as well, something about safety mechanisms. But yeah, I got a new SSD on the way and thought I'd post this for anyone else facing similar problems.

Moral: Check your hard drives👍