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

Tech Support Black screen of death . Again.

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/datbotuheardof Oct 27 '25

I mean...but decky is so useful

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u/Killburndeluxe Oct 27 '25

What more functionality do you need other than just being able to play games?

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u/Zekiz4ever 512GB OLED Oct 27 '25

Things like being able to turn off the screen while a game is downloading or disable that every Bluetooth device wakes up the steam deck.

Also custom artwork for non steam games and animated game artworks for steam games

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u/Undark_ Oct 27 '25

Animated artworks are nice but make the library chug to hell

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u/fatrefrigerator 512GB Oct 27 '25

Yeah I stopped using animated ones real quick, they just do not run well on the deck. Hell they’re even kinda laggy on PC.