360 Turning on by itself - creepy

It's a 250gb Slim model

It's turning on by itself.
No controllers are connected
No USB anything is connected

I turn it off and it turns right back on within 5 seconds.
I basically can't turn it off without unplugging the power cord

The 1st controller port lights up but there is no controller on at all. It can't be a neighbour either because it's been doing it for about 18 hours straight

I've disconnected the power cable for an hour and when I plugged it back in, It turned on right away
I've also made sure the touch sensitive power button on the console is clean and nothing is touching it to turn it on.

Please keep your "xbox sucks", "it's a ghost" and all that rubbish to yourslef. lol
Any ideas?

Well, maybe you should pay more attention to it then. :P

Joking aside, I doubt there's a fix for that without having it professionally looked at. If a controller isn't doing it, or someone isn't screwing with you, then there has to be some sort of problem with either the power brick or inside the 360 itself.

Yea thats kinda happening with me too, it is freaky. Funny thing was it used to turn itself off and i went on the xbox support site and it said to disconnect and reconnect the brick, which i did btw and now i'm facing the bang opposite problem, don't tell me its gunna die on me now cuz my warranty just got over few days back....its the same 250 gig slim model.

It's a ghost, bro! But seriously, I can see how that would get incredibly annoying.

maybe its interference from another source

perhaps some random 'all in one' remote happens to have the right frequency to power-on your system.Stinger78

It's a 250gb Slim model

It's turning on by itself.
No controllers are connected
No USB anything is connected

I turn it off and it turns right back on within 5 seconds.
I basically can't turn it off without unplugging the power cord

The 1st controller port lights up but there is no controller on at all. It can't be a neighbour either because it's been doing it for about 18 hours straight

I've disconnected the power cable for an hour and when I plugged it back in, It turned on right away
I've also made sure the touch sensitive power button on the console is clean and nothing is touching it to turn it on.

Please keep your "xbox sucks", "it's a ghost" and all that rubbish to yourslef. lol
Any ideas?

kevin8se7en

does your neighboors have xbox 360? because its not hard for them to be turning on their system and it turn on yours, or they can be messing with you by going by your window and turing thier controller on which will turn your system on

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It's a 250gb Slim model

It's turning on by itself.
No controllers are connected
No USB anything is connected

I turn it off and it turns right back on within 5 seconds.
I basically can't turn it off without unplugging the power cord

The 1st controller port lights up but there is no controller on at all. It can't be a neighbour either because it's been doing it for about 18 hours straight

I've disconnected the power cable for an hour and when I plugged it back in, It turned on right away
I've also made sure the touch sensitive power button on the console is clean and nothing is touching it to turn it on.

Please keep your "xbox sucks", "it's a ghost" and all that rubbish to yourslef. lol
Any ideas?

diegosanchezMMA

does your neighboors have xbox 360? because its not hard for them to be turning on their system and it turn on yours, or they can be messing with you by going by your window and turing thier controller on which will turn your system on

False.

they cannot turn on his console from their house, with their controllers. each controller must me sync'd to a 360 or it will not work. so when they sync'd their controllers to their 360, they would NOT be able to turn on anyone elses 360, but their own.(without re-syncing to a different console)

so unless they found a way to press the sync button on TCs 360, it wont work.

The same thing happened to me with my slim. The reason is that the touch sensor on either the eject or power button is overly sensitive to electricity (this is because only your finger can turn it on similar to how only your finger can use an iPhone screen) because your finger has a slight charge to it. If you have it on a rug, this could happen.

Unplug it when you're done playing.

If you live in an apartment your next door neighbours may inadvertly be turning on your Xbox 360 Slim when the are using the Xbox 360 as an internet television reciever. Using a smart phone to turn on. or record television programs. The Xbox 360 Slimline can be used as a PVR for internet television providers. Plus it is smartphone remote activation that could be causing your Xbox 360 s to turn on be itself.

whats your audio/visual set-up like. I have mupltiple HDMI inputs going into my tv at the same time as my xbox it will turn itself on and off soemthimes while I'm switching through the inputs. this problem was intensified by my wierd head-set set-up. to get around it I have to unplug all my other HDMI cables and just leave the xbox's in while using it.

sounds like a hardware issue, those issues can only get worse, so i'd say call hardware support before the issue progressively gets any worse.

And you definitely don't want to leave it on all the time, as that can also cause hardware failure

if it turns it's self on whilst not plugged into the wall then call an exorcist

it's just happy to be alive.. leave it be.. when it eventually becomes tired, it will just fall asleep.:)

it might be the phantom of the 360. legend has it that the first 360 to red ring didnt go down without a fight. it started infecting other consoles of the same model until it felt that it did enough damage. to this day it occasionaly comes back to prank new models, by turning them on/off because it cant infect them....with the RING OF DEATH. oooooooooooOOOOoooooooo

Try removing the batteries from your controller, then you may see if the controller is the problem.;)

Yup, a Ghost.

Mine turned on in the middle of the night and I realized it was my cat. She often messes with stuff in our bedroom to wake us up. I'm so glad she didnt understand that she could turn it on just by lightly touching it (new style 360). I'd be in so much trouble if that happens.