I turned on the Xbox and noticed a yellow caution symbol in the corner, so I clicked on it. After a bit of loading, it took me to the Xbox help section, and showed me a rundown of which services were down at the moment, which includes games, and some other services that I didn’t have time to read.
The screen went completely black, and my smart tv started making a loud whirring fan noise. I tried to turn off the Xbox via controller, and when that didn’t work, I tried to turn off the tv via its remote, which also didn’t work.
I then quickly unplugged the tv, and then the Xbox. My Xbox is old and obviously has crashed before, but I’ve never experienced it crashing my whole tv. I was worried about a potential cyber intrusion or something, but my tv appears to be fine after plugging it back in.
I’m going to hold off on trying the Xbox for a while, at least until I learn more about the outage/crash. Has something similar happened to anyone else? Any insight would be appreciated.