Weirdest fix on xbox one...

[Duranis]

So we got my son an xbox one for his birthday a little while ago and after having it for less than a week it starts turning itself off. Sometimes it runs for hours, other times it turns off within 10 minutes. I went through all the standard trouble shooting (check power settings, not overheating, changed the socket it was plugged in, swapped the power pack to one I knew worked, etc, etc). Was still having problems so took it back and got a replacement.

 

This one was having exactly the same issues, went through all the steps again and was about to take it back again when I came across a post of someone that had a similar issue with their xbox one. They had it in an entertainment cabinet with a plastic pane in the door which would sometimes build up a static charge and then this would turned the xbox on or off. My son has a sound reactive plasma lamp about 2 foot away from the xbox one so I unplugged this and low and behold the problem has now gone away. Seems that the plasma lamp was building up a big enough charge in the area around it to be able to active the touch sensitive "button" for the power on the xbox.

 

I also remember once setting up a new wifi router for a friend. Set it all up, no problems and working great. Moved it 1ft from the floor to the table it was going on and it completely lost all wifi signal. Took me quite a long time of checking settings and trouble shooting to figure out exactly what was wrong with it before I figured out that the router was completely fine unless I put it in the small area of the (wooden) table which just completely killed its WiFi.

 

Anyone else ever come across any really odd fixes or problems?

[crc-ict]

We've got a Toshiba TV with touch-sensitive buttons on the control panel.

 

I put one of those little USB plasma balls next to the TV and shortly afterwards, the TV beeped and the touch buttons stopped working completely. Had to unplug the TV from the mains and re-plug to get them working again..

 

It seems plasma balls and lamps are bad for touch-sensitive electronics!

[hardtailstar]

My main screen at home did have to be turned on before or just after I turn on my computer. I couldn't switch the computer on and then come back and turn the screen on

 

It was bugging me for a while then I moved my room about and moved the battery operated alarm clock off my desk.

 

Ever since then I haven't had the issue.

[DCUK6]

Ghosts.

 

Plasma balls and alarm clocks, ha. Its the ghosts i tells ya.

 

 

(having a bit of a crazy moment)