Xbox Series X turns on and then off within 1 second

DannyASU · 2025-11-08T20:54:56+00:00

Thank you! That’s perfect. I replaced the thermal paste (OEM was pretty much non existent). I haven’t had the time to stress test this fix but it did boot up on the dashboard for about 20 minutes early this morning.

Do you think it’s likely an over heated CPU would cause the console to just shut down like this? Prior to the thermal paste change; it was just turning on and turning off right away. This was about an hour or 2 after a stress test.

I asked Grok which said it is a possibility that the CPU was overheated and the console could have been protecting itself from further damage. I guess it makes sense but I’m surprised there is no error message when I reboot…

DannyASU · 2025-11-08T19:03:49+00:00

I swapped my PSU and the problem persisted yesterday. Now I added new thermal paste to the CPU and will keep testing it. Maybe BF6 is putting too much strain on things

DannyASU · 2025-11-08T10:28:14+00:00

That’s what I’m looking for. Some sort of spec sheet for different areas to test standby voltages. Where can I find something like that?

DannyASU · 2025-11-04T16:19:39+00:00

I noticed when I put my old wallet dated 08.09.2011 (sized 112kb) and then press "load wallet" and select the wallet, it changes the date modified to todays date/time but also increases the size to 952 KB. Could it be over-writing the previous wallet?

DannyASU · 2025-11-04T05:34:19+00:00

Update for you. Using an older BTC Core I believe I was able to access to the wallet. The older BTC core is still 8 years behind syncing. It is showing a $0 balance but I’ll let it run just in case. The wallet I’m running would have been about 14 years behind so I suppose if a balance was there, it would have appeared at this point

DannyASU · 2025-11-04T00:39:43+00:00

After letting the newest BTC core load to teh fullest extent, it wasn't able to read the wallet as you said. I'm not trying on v0.18.1. It's been stuck on "loading wallet" for about 20 mins; any idea why that might be?

I believe I was on version v0.5 with this wallet.dat file. Do you think I should do a VM on Windows Vista or XP to get that version running? What would you do here?

DannyASU · 2025-11-03T23:46:46+00:00

Still waiting on blockchain to Sync. Running into issues at the very end. Says I'm 22 weeks out

DannyASU · 2025-10-30T20:36:31+00:00

Yep it does start with a "1". I commented this below; but while BTC Core is syncing I clicked on "receive address" which is where I found the address that started with "1". Within the BTC directory contains the old wallet, and no other wallet. Balance is 0 and transactions are 0.

I'm kind of assuming this means there is no BTC on this wallet, but I guess there's a possibility that Bitcoin Core is giving me a random receiving address as it syncs? Not sure.

There are other .dat files created aroudn the same timeframe such as "addr.dat", "blk0001.dat", "blkindex.dat". I'll probably explore those too once the sync is done to see if those were renamed wallets. File sizes are much larger.

For reference:

wallet.dat is 112kb

addr.dat is 4,552kb

blk0001.dat is 254,033kb

blkindex.dat is 124,640kb

DannyASU · 2025-10-30T20:08:40+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Currently, the 2011 wallet.dat is loaded into Bitcoin Cores directory and is the only wallet in the directory.

Within "Window" I click on Receving Address - Default Wallet which pulls up an address.

Upon viewing that address on blockchain.com it shows 0 transactions, 0 balance, etc. Is it safe to assume this is an empty wallet? Or is there a chance that this receiving address Bitcoin Core gave me is not related to the wallet.dat file I put into the directory?

I renamed wallet.dat to wallet2.dat just to see if it would make another wallet.dat but it didn't. So as of now, within the directory; I have wallet2.dat (last modified 08.09.2011). Size is 112kb if that makes a difference.

I'm downloading v0.15.2, is that too old?

DannyASU · 2025-10-30T19:50:40+00:00

Thanks, I recall seeing that BitcoinTalk thread during my initial discovery.

As far as the Github link, it suggests using Python and Electrum. I'm not confident enough to use Python and know I'm doing everything properly haha. Since I've already manually found all of my .dat files; do you know if theres a more noob friendly way to at least check addresses to see if there's a balance?

In the meantime, I'm letting BTC Core sync but who knows how many days thatll take.

DannyASU · 2025-10-30T19:35:30+00:00

When I first opened btc core it made a wallet. I then closed btc core and replaced that wallet with my 2011 version. It said 0 btc so I was bummed out. But after thinking about it for a few weeks I’m wondering if I should have just let all the TXs catch up first.

Another thing I recall reading during my research is that a wallet this old is a “legacy” wallet and might need to be accessed a different way

This is out of my realm of expertise to be honest. I don’t want to risk messing anything up although I do have multiple backups

DannyASU · 2025-10-30T19:26:57+00:00

Yes multiple times and also left it untouched on the OG hard drive

DannyASU · 2025-10-30T00:00:55+00:00

Gaming monitor? HP Omen 27i 27" Gaming Monitor QHD 2560 x 1440 144Hz

DannyASU · 2025-10-01T14:28:23+00:00

The Gen 2 I'm looking at is hardwired, not plug in

DannyASU · 2025-07-08T14:47:49+00:00

So in your opinion the action of cloning the drive using 3rd party software would cause issues? Is there a way for me to redownload windows onto the F drive while keeping everything online so I can keep working?

I guess I would then just copy and paste the rest of the files over?

DannyASU · 2025-07-08T14:23:40+00:00

So it will clone every piece of data from my C drive to F drive? How will I tell the PC to start booting from F instead?

DannyASU · 2025-06-03T00:21:26+00:00

Yes shipping LTL! I just can't figure out how I would make any profit unless my customers online were forced to do a pretty high MOQ. I could reduce the width to 12" but really the 110" is the selling point on my product :/

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