Calling it resolved immediately after it booted up again seems a bit premature though. I've had a few major PC hardware issues where I managed to get it running again for a short while only for it to fail again soon after. This issue happening in the first place does likely indicate some hardware fault with that person's Steam Machine.
The problem is how easy you can have a 100% disaster and 100% not-a-problem when the usercase is...well, 1.
Yeah, I don't disagree. As of now this is just one person with an issue out of an unknown number of Steam Machine owners. It shouldn't be blown out of proportion.
If I was that person though, I'd probably ask Valve for a replacement unit, even if it works for now.
ASUS ROG Strix laptops enter the chat.
"huh it randomly rebooted and won't post...ok i'll turn it off for 15min or so...oh it's working again."
few months later
"huh these false reboots are happening more frequently now and now it's taking an hour or more before it'll post again...still works though!"
few months later
"the mobo cooked itself."
Don't buy ASUS laptops kids. you'll be lucky, extremely lucky, if you get 4 to 5 years out of it.
Otoh, a family member gave me their "broken" Asus zenbook, I replaced the battery and its been running great for a few years now. I'm at the point where I need to replace the battery again(and maybe ditch Ubuntu, I always regret installing it)
Let me guess this is the story so far:
Classic Layer 8 problem
PS: I didn't read said braindead click-bait "news" because I don't care
Gee I wonder if there could be some reason why major 'gaming' news sites are chomping at the bit, ready to run any story headline that makes Valve look bad...
Maybe it has something to do with
Sony is scared.
If you have to keep it unplugged for a couple of hours it does not seem like a fix.
But well, if it happens again he should return it, just to be sure.
Leaving it unplugged means capacitors drain. Not sure what issues that would solve that wouldn’t be related to hardware failure.
Still, only a single hardware failure reported so far and some news outlets ran with “MAJOR failure in Steam Machine, GabeN in shambles, Valve BTFO, Sony was right all along, apologize to Nintendo right now”
A random bit flip in memory. Sometimes errors can be retained.
Eh you know how's the hate train. It drives way more clicks to just create ragebait than to report news.
In the videogame world however, seems to be worse as the average "journalist" is basically a guy who can put letters together.
Over heating can behave like this, but doesn’t seem likely.
Ya having to keep it unplugged would tell me that something is on the brink of total failure.
Whether this is a one off case or turns into a wide spread issue I'd be asking for a replacement.
Something went wrong, just wish we knew what.
I'll be curious to see how the OP OP's machine is doing a few weeks from now, and if the error pops up again.
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I love, despite the large amount of broken shit on the deck, people are desperate to defend this thing as the second coming. Just fascinating.
Define "large amount of broken shit on the deck" please.
Flakey Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Utterly broken screen scaling
So having a weak wifi and, apparently, "utterly broken screen scaling" is "a large amount of broken shit". Idk mate, I was expecting something kinda worse than two non issues...
Not as harsh as OP on the deck, but it definitely has more issues than those two. However, I'd say most of the problems are caused by Steam's Big Picture Mode.
I still love my deck its convenient and powerful, but I hate the broken keyboard, borked store navigation & terrible library function, incompatibility with my PC (mindlessly turning one game on during the other system's play will sign me out of the former system, understandableish but frustrating), getting flashbanged by desktop mode because the brightness will reset to ~65% >o< Not had much screen scaling issues, although wifi does get weak a couple rooms away.
The great casual controls, mini pc, and quick lazy game access makes it tolerable but these issues have been reported for years in some cases and Valve has not fixed them. The Steam Deck is phenomenal but not without faults. Large amount? Perhaps not, but they are ever present depending on your use case.
Yeah having shitty wireless controller performance and broken Wi-Fi is NBD for a gaming console is NBD. I swear the amount of cope because you align ideology wise is crazy. Just hand waving basic issues away 🤣
Gordon Ramsay you donkey meme in action.
Two decks at home and not a single of those issues. I must be lucky. Three more among my friends and same. Must be lucky too...
I mean, yeah. You came here to shit on a console that nobody is taking about but sure it must be us coping... Are you ok? Did Gabe steal your candies? Who hurt you so badly that you have to come online to insult randos and talk shit about an unrelated topic on an internet post?
It seems like your getting down voted for 'large amount of broken shit", which I don't know about, but I agree people seem way to willing to forgive a pretty bad error with this, when I expect they'd not if it was a different company.
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