Console will beep, turn on for a second then immediately shuts off.

I had a guy bring one into the shop the other day with this same problem. I wound up having to replace the Power Eject board as well as the connector on the motherboard. Looked like he'd gotten it wet. Do you know if your buddy got his wet too?

Have you succeed fixing it? I am having exactly the same problem.

Was there an update to this? My Xbox One S just started doing this today. it's only a few months old !!!!

Try using a hair dryer on the top vent for a bit and then turn it on. They use the hotest setting but don’t melt the plastic. Will try to link the thread next time. Didn't think to save the link.

hair dryer does work but what your doing is there is a chip that is most likely not making a good connection and the heat from the hair dryer is probably just heating the solder balls so that chip can slowly lay down. haven’t a idea which chip to point out for ya yet.

Smashing the eject CD button works for me after like 10 mins

This worked for me after around 4 times of starting up the Xbox and continuing to hair dry the Xbox

I have the same issue but mine has the shut down beep also. I have found a voltage beside the southbridge on the test solder point where a 3.2Vdc pulses to 2.4vdc on standby and when you start up it drops to zero and pulses to 2.4 then shuts down. I can’t find where the voltage is coming from. Unsure if it’s directly from south bridge or if It may be another component that is making it do this. I’ve tested all round but can’t find it. Any help would be much appreciated

I had this problem a while ago (maybe 6 months), so I just accepted that my xbox was dead. I turned it on a couple weeks ago and it worked! Since then I've been playing consistently, and just this morning the problem came back. Hoping a easier solution is here, otherwise, it's going to be a while till I play

Literally took a 5.5 horsepower shop vac to the top of the console and turned on the power button at the same time and it turned on and stayed on.

I mean if you can push start a Ford, and there's 3 rednecks in a house you can for sure vacuum start an Xbox

I did what the guy above said and just kept hitting the the cd eject button and it was like jump starting a car it start stopped a few times then worked

Cheers buddy 🤣

Turn the xbox so it's standing on its right side (power button at the bottom) then try turn it on and off a few hundred times.

Usually, eventually, mine stays on, the fan starts, and it's as good as new.