It is a solem day , my Xbox I've had for 8 years won't fully boot
I had been playing palworld over the last few days and early this afternoon I left it afk and turned my monitor off to leave it while I felt with an errand, came back around 7-9 min later and the screen was completely frozen, I brought up the home menu to try close the game from their homescreem but other controlls seemd to not work , I pressed the power button which did nothing so after another 10 seconds I pulled out the power chord
After that I plugged it back in , turned it on heard the fan/ hard drive making an occasional clicking/ cheeping noise , monitor was completely black so no hdmi output
The console would be like this then turn itself off after a minute
Tried multiple times leaving time between, to let residual power drain
(Yes the monitor and hdmi work I tried with my laptop)
(No my console has never had anything spilled on it or any liquid exposure)
Later on I opened up the case removed the plastic shell, Gave everything a thorough dusting with a vacuum cleaner and an air compressor to get dust out
Once back together It did the same thing as before, I did try the troubleshooting menu from sync+disc buttons still no hdmi output black screen, and powered off after a minute
I'm fairly certain the hardrive is dead and the console won't boot because of the internal handshake with it I'm just wondering if you guys think anything else is broken or wether a SSD upgrade will solve the problem?
Thanks in advance