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I think I've just bricked my steam deck (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 15 hours ago by Soulstorm@sh.itjust.works to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Hello,

Started up my deck today and when I plugged it in it wouldn’t charge. Changed the power socket, tried charging it through the monitor I have, but nothing.

I read online to hold the - volume button, the … button and the power button all together. The charging LED flashed three times but that was it.

Now I can’t turn on the deck, charging still doesn’t work and I really have no idea on what to do.

The battery was at 75%, I limit it so it doesn’t charge over 80%. I don’t leave it plugged in. I’ve been using a portable monitor with it lately that plugs into the USB-C but I haven’t run into any issues with it and it was working fine last night.

Can someone please help?

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[–] dil@piefed.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

You can start it with the battery out, shut it down after bios setup and launching once, then put the battery in and launch it if its anything like the cmos failure thay happened with my laptop. I swapped to fast charging, my issue was hybrid battery compensating for weaker charger brick (they dont support a more powerful brick either for passthrough, battery is needed for full performance, alienware laptops are weird)