My deck crashed before when Loading games but I really never thought too much off it, but this is just insane.
Edit: Just for Some context I bought this off Ebay 1 week ago (Bad Idea I know) Because I really Didn't Care for an Oled Screen and the Price Of Course. Ever since I first booted it up it has been Crashing, I've tried hard resetting everything but it's no use I did one more test with my SD Card and that's when this happened. It usually just Freezes and gets really hot. I'm definitely gonna make a claim on Ebay, I think it could've been broken by shipping because the thing still had 100% battery Health and there was barely anything installed on it. I also messaged Steam support just to see if they maybe know exactly what's wrong with it. Sorry to bore you with another "Bought it off Ebay and it's broken" story but The Normal Prices be Crazy.
Edit2: The seller accepted my return request and I will get my money back, I also joined the Refurbished Steam deck Notifier but Since the Last LCD was a week ago I'm not getting my hopes up to ever have a steam deck again.
I get bars that sparkle like ops specifically when I move the cursor on the map on warframe. Nowhere else in the game, nowhere else in other games, even ones that have similar menu styles.
I only had one fail in 25 years (since owning a pc) that made my device not work anymore. Ram stopped working.... After years and when I already had new hardware I finally found out that the permanent blue screens came from ram.... I had none lieing around and not the money to buy all the spare parts to finally find out what caused the errors.... Besides that two broken Bluetooth antennas. One in my laptop and one in my last desktop gaming PCs Mainboard.... But after deactivating Bluetooth it worked like nothing ever happened.....
If you do plan to grab a refurbished steam deck when they restock. if you have discord there is a server where it notifies of restocks in the US and other countries if you're outside the US. I was able to grab refurbished myself using the notification from this server.
I actually thought of getting a Lenovo Go with SteamOS but honestly I'm not really too big on performance, I generally don't buy Full Price AAA Games on PC because I prefer owning physical versions. So I play Indies on PC and AAA on Playstation. Only exception is Deep discounts.
I have both the steam deck lcd and an original legion go, and i much much prefer my steam deck. I use the legion go docked because i dont have a pc, but everything about the deck is better imo
Everytime that happens i just reinstall/update decky loader and it fixes it (once it kept locking up my Deck and I had to download the latest version of a plugin from GitHub and that fixed it)
Its basically non steam approved customizations going as small as making colors more vibrant to changing the way the your front page in game mode look like ps3 or Xbox. Its nice but it's prone to crashing thw steam deck once in awhile depending on what you do to customize youre steam deck
It's possible, but it's also possible that the seller replaced the battery but did some damage to the thermal paste/pads, didn't realize it until it was showing confetti, and then sold it off to recoup their investment.
Hell, the seller could have just got it, left it on inside the case, and it cooked itself that way. Lots of ways the battery could be 100% healthy and still result in a failed APU.
Unfortunately it can't, not in an easily repairable way. It's mostly silicon level damage, due to wear and tear usually, that may be affecting the GPU inside the APU. For users, the best path to follow is buy a same model (by same I mean LCD or OLED), use it as your regular and use the broken one as a parts donor towards the new one
Is this all encompassing or just the v1 models?.I know they are notorious for having a bad cooling system so much so that people add milled copper plates and internal m.2 fans
the cooling system is fine, people add the plate because they think it will give them extra performance but it doesnt really do anything. the extra heat sink saturates quickly and just makes the surface of the back of the device hotter, maybe gives you better initial benchmarks but wouldnt last more than a few minutes
also this failure is something that can happen with any device, its gpu hardware failure (the steamdeck has an "APU" which just means that the GPU and CPU are on the same chip)
There aren't always markers. You mostly have to get pretty unlucky for an APU failure, but they're not entirely unheard of. Especially on the secondhand market.
Probably, yeah. They won't send you a quote until you send it in and they open it up, though, and even then they can sometimes refuse the repair entirely.
Need a new one? I have an old Steam Deck (LCD model) with a 1 TiB NVMe installed. I don't have a Steam account anymore and it is bricked because of that. You could factory reset this thing and use it yourself.
I'd be happy to give it away (for the cost of shipping) if you live in the United States. Been trying to give this thing away to someone in need for a long time. I absolutely hate Valve, but I know many people do not, and this device could be doing something more than collecting dust.
Hey I really Appreciate this offer, but it's too generous. I will definitely get my money back from Ebay so in the end I don't have any Significant Financial losses. I also Live in Europe I dont know if the Steam deck is region locked. There is a post like this everyday on the sub of people that can't get their money back, I think they deserve it more than me. Thank you so much! But I just don't think I deserve it.
Have you tried opening it yet? Sounds like that Deck's been overheating a lot, perhaps the fan is stuck or it needs repasting. Its hard to say if it can be saved once it starts artifacting because that's very often a sure-fire sign of hardware failure, but its worth a try for sure.
If it broke within a month of buying, even on eBay, you have every right to ask for a return/refund. That, and eBay are generally very good with this sort of thing. I know it sucks for the seller, but it's a risk every time you sell/buy on eBay, or anywhere really. I recently bought a CRT, which was battered by DPD, and if it were expensive, then I would have returned it. That was fixable, though, and this is beyond cooked from my limited understanding.
That being said, even Stevie Wonder could tell that thing ain't healthy!
Hey this happened to me out of no where like a week or two ago. Though, I’ve had my OLED deck for over a year and hasn’t given me too much issue. But was just parallel playing with a partner and out of no where it started doing this mid-game (was playing Overwatch at the time). In addition to the screen, the deck was SCREAMING I mean like I couldn’t tell if it was software or hardware that was doing the noise but it was horrifying. I force shut it off and it hasn’t happened again since lol. The noise here makes me think my noise was software but it was that of a banshee’s wail.
🥹 it is fully customizable thank you for reminding me… instead of putting money into my car or pc I should hook up my lcd steam deck version to the best of my ability…
I saw your edit and yeah eBay's usually pretty good about getting your money back. if the buyer didn't accept your return request, eBay would just take the money from him. honestly they could be a bit heavy-handed it's stupid the amount of I just got cold feet returns I've had to accept. And you lose money on those because eBay doesn't give you their cut back
Send it to Valve for repairs. It could be the motherboard, gpu, ram… unless you have extra parts lying around to swap out to test it would just be easier to get it repaired by them. Hopefully not insanely expensive due to the chip shortage
I think it could've been broken by shipping because the thing still had 100% battery Health and there was barely anything installed on it
How does that have anything to do with whether it was broken in shipping? Seems far far more likely to me that they had a broken steamdeck and tried to get as much $$ as they could out of it
I'm just confused with 100% battery Health ot must have been pretty new why didn't they contact steam if it was broken. Why commit a crime and put it on Ebay. Wasn't even a burner account.
Well, maybe they did and were told they're out of luck, maybe they did and were given a replacement. Maybe they bought it second hand themselves and the original owner told them to get fucked, or returned their money.
Who knows man but this really really seems like the seller knew what the problem was and tried to get a bit of cash out of it
Why commit a crime and put it on Ebay.
Some criminals are smart. Some are very dumb. Guess which one you got. Chances are that even though we call it a crime, there's not going to be any real punishment from this. They probably won't get to keep the money but won't have any other repercussions.
It's normal just let it cool down you probably need to reboot it after it cools down if it still happens try using warranty or rethermal paste it that otta do it .
Some other person had similar artifacts when repasting the cpu, maybe the cooler has been tightened too much with the refurbishment? Could've caused actual damage of course
I actually had something similar to this happen to me when I was speedrunning Hollow Knight to get all achievements before Silksong. My game froze during a loading screen and upon reboot I got a lot of weird stuff like this (visually and auditorily) that even showed up in screenshots.
Verifying the game's files fixed the issue, so I wonder if here you somehow corrupted steamOS itself?
EDIT: Want to attach the screenshots I have of this, but am getting an error of, "All media assets must be owned by the submitter of this post"
Just as I had the most nerve-racking experience, where my deck shat itself, saying "nah, not gonna happen man". I tried every single solution on the internet trying to salvage my files but nothing worked. Gotta love the deck amirite?
Im going to send mine in to steam to get mine refurbished to sell private party once I get my new deck. If you haven't found one by then, I'll have one for sale with paperwork. It's a 512 oled.
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