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My deck is stuck on the boot screen after a factory reset (self.steamdeck)

submitted 2 years ago by yokonzo to c/[email protected]

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Let me be more specific, it’s stuck after an update after a factory reset, I was having some problems with the deck getting stuck in screen off mode unless I pressed the volume buttons, in which case it would turn the screen on for a second then turn off again. So I decided fuck it, factory reset. It came back in but had an update pending so I did. Here’s where the problems start, I update and it got stuck in a boot loop, okay, so I do the 3 dots and power button to go back to a previous version or whatever, it works fine and plays games until I try to update again, this time in the beta build, now upon restarting it hangs at the steam deck logo once again.

I’ll admit I tinkered a bit under the hood but nothing I would consider crazy enough to cause a brick. Heaviest thing I think I did was change the ram to 8gb or something using cryoutilities l, any ideas what I broke?

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[–] TeddE 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can power the device off by holding power for 12. (I always do 30s when hard booting any device, just to be sure)

You can get into recovery mode by powering on holding volume up while pressing the power button. You're welcome to look around, but I don't think you'll be able to fix it from here alone, but at least this way you'll know the hardware is functioning fine.

Others might have a few things to try next, but if all else fails, these instructions could help install a fresh copy of SteamOS: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3

[–] yokonzo 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah I ended up having to do a full reimagine, really wish I could have nailed down the problem but it appears to be updating just fine now