Using a USB external hard drive with an Xbox Series X and it keeps disconnecting . Symptoms I’ve been using a USB external hard drive with an Xbox Series X for a while now. It’s the same drive I’d used successfully on the Xbox One but on the newer console it keeps disconnecting. This resulted in me getting booted from …

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Turned on the Xbox Series X this evening and the TV showed a very low resolution picture. Symptoms Previous uses of the Xbox had been fine, but this time the display was small, blocky, and very low resolution even on the sign in page. Restarting the Xbox (including a full shutdown) and the television had no effect. In …

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Whilst watching shows on the Netflix Xbox One application the screen kept dimming after 10 minutes. Symptoms During playback on the Netflix app on Xbox One the screen would dim and the “you’ve nearly got these achievements” sidebar would appear 10 minutes after the controller was used. This is expected behaviour when …

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There’s been a lot of coverage in the press about teaching with Minecraft- Microsoft even releasing an Educational version. So when the kids were set a homework project about “Super Structures” this got me thinking- let’s give Minecraft a go to supplement the project work set by the teacher. The project brief was to …

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A few days ago I tweeted about managing my ESXi HomeLab from the Xbox. Whilst this is a bit of a novelty (I’m holding out for the Minecraft ESXi plugin fling), it highlights the management possibilities that the new HTML-based (rather than Flash or Windows based) client creates. In addition to working via the Edge …

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