Steam Deck OLED no post, active LED.

SaberLilly · 2026-08-04T04:09:36+0100

So i have a steam deck OLED model, i believe its an F7G. I played deltarune on it a few days ago, and turned it off normally. When i went to turn it back on the power light just flashed and turned off, no image, boot chime or fan. I connected it to its original 45 watt charger and tried again, still all i got was a flashing light. Your typical 3 slow blinks. when i unplugged it, the power light flickered instead of slow blinked and I have no idea what else to try, and here is just a short list of the things i have tried
1: connected to power normally
2: unplugged and tried booting
3: entered and exited battery storage mode
4: unplugged battery and tried running off AC
5 disconnected battery and NVME drive and tried running off AC
6: disconnected NVME and tried running off battery
7: CMOS reset button combination

I think i might have to RMA it as it just randomly happened, i'm sure there's more i tried but its late at the time of posting and i tried everything reddit suggested. If anyone has something i might have missed, please leave it in the replies. Thanks and i hope everyone has a pleasant evening.

Magsor · 2026-08-04T14:30:19+0100

SaberLilly said:
So i have a steam deck OLED model, i believe its an F7G. I played deltarune on it a few days ago, and turned it off normally. When i went to turn it back on the power light just flashed and turned off, no image, boot chime or fan. I connected it to its original 45 watt charger and tried again, still all i got was a flashing light. Your typical 3 slow blinks. when i unplugged it, the power light flickered instead of slow blinked and I have no idea what else to try, and here is just a short list of the things i have tried
1: connected to power normally
2: unplugged and tried booting
3: entered and exited battery storage mode
4: unplugged battery and tried running off AC
5 disconnected battery and NVME drive and tried running off AC
6: disconnected NVME and tried running off battery
7: CMOS reset button combination

I think i might have to RMA it as it just randomly happened, i'm sure there's more i tried but its late at the time of posting and i tried everything reddit suggested. If anyone has something i might have missed, please leave it in the replies. Thanks and i hope everyone has a pleasant evening.

You have never mentioned going to recovery menu, which I would have done first. hold - while power on. What do you get from that?

SaberLilly · 2026-08-04T14:56:07+0100

Magsor said:
You have never mentioned going to recovery menu, which I would have done first. hold - while power on. What do you get from that?

oh, that gets me nothing as well as the device is completely unresponsive aside from the power LED flashing. I opened a ticket with Steam Support to see if we can't troubleshoot it, and if worst comes to worst, i'm forced to RMA it.

and of course steam has said its not covered under warranty and i wasn't even told what the damage is.

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