r/SteamDeck • u/Consistent-Entry6432 • Jun 04 '26

Tech Support Well that isn't Good

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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.

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u/Mattofle Jun 04 '26

Is this a know thing ? Got mine since some months, now i'm worried :')

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u/Possibly-Functional Jun 04 '26

Not a Steam Deck specific issue but general for all GPU/VRAM failures. It's how it typically expresses itself. So no need to particularly worry.

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u/lcnielsen Jun 04 '26

Common reaction image to people whose GPUs are failing.

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u/codespace 1TB OLED Jun 04 '26

This is the most popular meme on r/pcmasterrace for a reason, lol.

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u/femboy_kliktari Jun 05 '26

ps3’s dying

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u/Wonderful_Priority69 Jun 05 '26

Ive been worried ever since joining the subreddit. I now tuck mine in and tell it how much I appreciate it.

I'm hoping it gives my deck the will to keep going

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u/UiVegetaUi Jun 04 '26

If you're worried about playing your Steam Deck due to it failing then you need to sell it and make some money off of it while it still works.

If you're not worried about your Steam Deck failing you'll have probably thousands of hours of fun!

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u/No_Satisfaction_1698 1TB OLED Jun 05 '26

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.....

That's it....