Well this is crap...my console won't load
Just switched it on once I got home from work as I do most evenings, saw the Xbox One green loading screen, then the screen went black. I've tried the hard reset, unplugging things, different HDMI cable, different HDMI port on the monitor but still can't get to the dashboard. Just blackscreens every time.
Any advice?
Just to follow up on this, I think I might have fixed it tonight.
After talking to a few of the Microsoft staff on their online web chat, I was told to manually download the system update using an USB flash drive, incase the last one had corrupted somehow. So I tried that, but after installing it, instead of a black screen I started getting the
E305 00000001 800700B7 error code every time I turned it on. Asked the web chat staff again and they didn't really know what to say, so I googled the code and found a thread on the Xbox forum, where someone said they'd fixed it by doing a factory reset.
So tonight after coming home I did a factory reset and it seems to have solved the problem. I'm still not sure what caused it but I guess it was an update that somehow got corrupted (was there even an update last Monday/Tuesday?). Anyway, fingers crossed it was just a glitch and not the sign of a deteriorating hard drive. I've restarted the console just to test it and it's loaded fine. Also recovered my Gamertag. Since the console is relatively new I don't have that many games to reinstall anyway, the biggest one being the Halo MCC pre-download which doesn't even unlock until Tuesday. Plenty of time
I know this is a bit of a cool-story-bro post, but I thought it might help if someone else has this problem in the future.