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Steam Machine's "Red Line of Death" [dubbed as "major hardware fault" by Eurogamer] single occurrence, resolved by keeping unplugged for a night. (archive.is)

submitted 1 day ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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Anticlimactic and somewhat embarrassing update: as some people suggested, I left it unplugged for about half an hour last night and then tried plugging it back in... and it didn't work. So I left it unplugged for a couple of hours and then tried it again before bed... and it didn't work. Same error light despite multiple power-cycling attempts. So I left it unplugged overnight and plugged it back in today to try some of the BIOS stuff that other people suggested... and it booted up immediately without issue.

I feel stupid about even posting this now, especially since it blew up a bit, but I was tired and irritable after a long day of work, and an ominous GPU error code wasn't exactly the seamless plug-and-play experience I had hoped for. But I guess if anyone encounters the same error, don't panic like I did, just let it sit for a few hours and it will somehow sort itself out. Anyway, I'm sorry for the false alarm, thanks to everyone who suggested solutions, and now I'm going to spend this weekend playing Crusader Kings until my eyes hurt.

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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 63 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Calling it resolved immediately after it booted up again seems a bit premature though. I've had a few major PC hardware issues where I managed to get it running again for a short while only for it to fail again soon after. This issue happening in the first place does likely indicate some hardware fault with that person's Steam Machine.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The problem is how easy you can have a 100% disaster and 100% not-a-problem when the usercase is...well, 1.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, I don't disagree. As of now this is just one person with an issue out of an unknown number of Steam Machine owners. It shouldn't be blown out of proportion.

If I was that person though, I'd probably ask Valve for a replacement unit, even if it works for now.

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ASUS ROG Strix laptops enter the chat.

"huh it randomly rebooted and won't post...ok i'll turn it off for 15min or so...oh it's working again."

few months later

"huh these false reboots are happening more frequently now and now it's taking an hour or more before it'll post again...still works though!"

few months later

"the mobo cooked itself."

Don't buy ASUS laptops kids. you'll be lucky, extremely lucky, if you get 4 to 5 years out of it.

[–] Dangerhart@lemmy.zip 6 points 21 hours ago

Otoh, a family member gave me their "broken" Asus zenbook, I replaced the battery and its been running great for a few years now. I'm at the point where I need to replace the battery again(and maybe ditch Ubuntu, I always regret installing it)