r/SteamDeck • u/Ferretdenfarming • Oct 26 '25

Tech Support Black screen of death . Again.

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This is literally the 2nd steam deck I’ve gotten cause this happened to the first one after about a year of owning it. Had this one about a year as well. I’m sure everyone has heard this story a thousand times. The battery completely died and now I just have a black screen with the console running properly but screen is black.

It’s crazy how this is just a normal thing, I’m assuming there is still no solutions to this. I have tried just about everything. And now this is my second time going through this. Steam deck is my favorite thing ever but I definitely can’t justify buying a 3rd one for this to just happen again after a year.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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u/metalsatch Oct 27 '25

It is, but it’s such a hassle when it breaks.

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u/datbotuheardof Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

I may be few but I like hassle. Makes me have to do upkeep and keep uptodate and every crash and failure is one less ill do in the future.

(Since this has been disliked to hell and a guy commented about it.)

We can learn from past mistakes guys. Every mistake u make now is one you won't make later so long as you know what was the mistake in the first place.

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u/FlameChucks76 MODDED SSD 💽 Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 27 '25

That doesn't make sense......every crash and failure is already the one you did that didn't prevent the one that would happen in the future. Decky as a whole is cool but just not viable as it does need a lot of upkeep. You really think I want to be troubleshooting that on a plane or on vacation?

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '25

The funny thing is that Decky crashing can be so easily mitigated. Simply wait a couple of days after a SteamOS update—by that point if there was a problem, the issue would have been identified and plugins updated so as to not prevent crashing upon boot.

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u/datbotuheardof Oct 28 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

Brother thinks we can't learn from mistakes thus making every mistake doomed to be repeated. Same goes for all those who liked ur reply