Hi Games revealed, as a test, try to install Steam OS or Windows on a USB or SD Card and then boot it just to see if your Steam Deck is damage or not and the other thing is that we must not always trust new updates because the creators of the updates might unintentionally create a bad update that can cause problems to your steam deck. As an opinion I can give for everybody is to backup your PC or Steam Deck partitions with Macrium reflect 7 or 8 that can backup Windows and Linux partitions though I'm not sure if Marium reflect 7 can backup Linux partitions and the other thing is that to backup Linux partitions in Macrium, then a medium compression might have to be used, anyway, so that way should anything go wrong, then boot Macrium Reflect via USB or SD Card in your Steam Deck or PC to restore your partitions so that way you won't have to use a Steam OS recovery image and that is because the Steam OS recovery image will wipe off all your data and Macrium Reflect will restore all your date and not only to your PC or Steam Deck , but one day if you decide to buy a new Steam Deck or PC, then you can restore your older computer's PC or Steam Deck to a different computer or Steam Deck. Also if you want to transfer your PC's Macrium backup, then you might be able to install it in your steam deck and maybe vice versa.
Generally Windows basically shags the bootloader on Linux. UEFI boot partition has likely been trashed. This is one of the reasons I don't bother with Windows anymore. If you really must. It's best to keep both OSes on entirely different drives and just boot them from the BIOS so neither knows about the other.
While I agree, windows is incredibly important for anyone who plays games online. I've had a high degree of success using the bios to select boot and my other os is windows 11 (it's just better for touch screens and I'm only booting in to play halo, destiny and occasionally fortnite with the kiddos.) I did not make any boot loader changes.
@@sarisalmi8763 yeah it should be reduced. But Windows on an SD card may be crappy. SteamOS is pretty great with SD cards. Windows in the past hasn't. You might be better off running Windows off a USB 3 drive. For example a dock with a PCMIE SSD card but into it. Pretty sure JSaux do something like that.
Yeah, it can be a little annoying, but with a good boot partition manager, it’s not too bad. I’ve have windows installed along side my Mac OS on my MacBook for years and have had no problems.
This happened to me yesterday after 3 days of owning it. I hadn't dual booted or anything, I had only installed heroic to play cyberpunk. I stopped playing Sunday morning and tapped the power button to put into standby. When I picked it up tomorrow night, nothing. Stuck on the Steam Logo and then it would go to a command line with steamos. Tried recovery using a usb hub but also a Dell dock. No dice on both. It would see the usb but nothing would happen. Waiting for another usb adapter from Amazon before logging a RMA. Pretty annoyed after waiting a year for this.
I've had nothing but problems with the boot manager. I've also read that Windows system updates can bork the bootloader. I went back to booting from the BIOS. No more headaches.
My SD got borked too yesterday, most likely by Windows - possibly a feature update. I had upgraded my 64GB to 1TB Sabrent a week or so ago, and had 3 working partitions ext4 SteamOS, ntfs Windows and btrfs for common storage . BTRFS works fine for windows, I put my games there, but steamOS only sees it in desktop mode. I bought steam games, played in steamOS, played windows games, even installed MSOffice for some work stuff, also Batocera on microSD. All seemed fine. In the end, I thought I'll just have two partitions and forget about BTRFS, so yesterday I reimaged and did 2 partitions. Reinstalled SteamOS, seemed ok and then installed windows11 seemed fine too - reinstalled MSOffice and updated everything. Went back to SteamOS and found that gaming mode only saw 250GB which was 1/3 of the size of the partition - desktop mode could see it at full size. Weird. Decided to reinstall SteamOS, which seemed to show initially that gaming mode saw the full size of the partition but then was just flaky when rebooting into SteamOS. I suspect that it was the the final windows feature update that borked SteamOS EFI or whatever it's called. So, I thought - Ok, I'll just have steamOS on the SSD and run windows off the microSD. Reimaged again, single partition. Seemed okay, but boot manager showed that I had two hard disks - one prefixed SteamOS. I was wondering if something else had gone wrong and was going to reboot again with the recovery USB and found it didn't work anymore. Either it kicked me back to the SSDs SteamOS or it stuck after the logo. Trying USB in dock/hub direct etc didn't work, trying other USBs didn't work, even microSD didn't work (in fact 'killed' the card). Was ready to consider RMA even though I'd opened it up to upgrade the SSD. Finally tried a new 128G microSD card as recovery USB and that seemed to work - booted quickly to recovery menu. It was late, so I didn't start the whole reimaging thing. So lessons - one, be very careful about dual boot. Two, it seems to be very fussy about the USB card - most of my 8GB usb drives are quite old I guess. Fingers crossed I can get it up and running later today.
i would install GRUB or something. Windows Boot loader ignores Linux installations but you can probably select the Linux partition to boot manually from the UEFI menu. Use Grub repair features if steamOS uses grub or just reinstall the default boot loader. there are tools for linux to address this stuff. blkid | grep -i efi to see the uefi partitions If Grub is used for steamOS: after mounting the root filesystem - "grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda" where /mnt/ is the directory for the root filesystem of the linux install you are trying to repair on device /dev/sda You can also try using chroot to the mounted filesystem root directory and run update-grub if creating a new grub bootloader is not necessary. Windows bootloader usually breaks GRUB MBR boot sector for loading the first stage of GRUB2. you can use efibootmgr in linux while running the linux install in question to manipulate the EFI Boot Manager incase windows trampled them. examples: efitbootmgr --create efibootmgr --delete-bootnum #modifying a boot entry efitbootmgr --bootnum to do this while running recovery or usb image. make sure you chroot your root directory to the root directory of the install in question.
When Steam release dual boot? On page we can read: DB will be released on SteamOS 3.0. Now we have 3.3 and silence... About problem: try boot in Up volume+ power from file Esp/SteamOS > SteamCl.efi . I hear that windows updates destroy it.
Glad i picked up the Ally. Steam deck bricked out of no where and the frustration has lead me to not even care when valve will help me. This shouldnt even be happening on a 700 dollar system.
If the recovery did not work, I would boot a liveusb of Manjaro, delete all partitions in the ssd using KDE Partition tool, and reboot with recovery image and install steam os. Not sure if steamos has a partition manager. Probably you could use fdisk, but gui option is easy.
When my deck won't boot Tech support told me unplug the adapter then to go to the bios menu ( hold + and power) go to the "power" option then click on battery something ( the top option) this will power down your deck which you will see the light blink three times , twice in a row. Then I plug the deck adapter back in which will automatically boot the Deck back up. I was able to get my deck to reboot but that didn't solve the real problem.
I know this is an old video but from what I’m aware of changing to Beta would cause boot loader not to work correctly this is probably why it frozen boot loader is like decky doesn’t work properly if you change settings also updates will crash the system too.
I Got my DECK about 2 weeks ago and am still not sure about everything but mine has been doing This Thing where I will have it in sleep mode but when I Turn it back on it won’t Turn on I have to hold down power like it was powered off and when it Finally comes back on it saids… Verifying Installation it does This about once A day I am on The stable channel so I wouldn’t Think it is updated That much… Just wondering if This is normal Thanks
I just got my steam deck and it won't get past the update screen. It's on my wifi but it won't finish the update and start. I sometimes get an update error message.
Hey im sorry this comment isnt related to this Video but you seem like an expert. It says it will get here after Q3 in october or longer if i would order my steam deck now could it be possible it arrives next year or does it 100% arrive in Q4?
I have just used the stea. Deck normaly. I havent opened it up, no duel boot no nothing. I was playing No Man Sky, and all of the sudden. I was getting bad lag realy bad. So I exited and shut it down. The batter was at 11% and figured that might be it. Plugged it in all night and same thing happened to me as he described. I hear the little chime when I press the button. But it just shows the logo for awhile then the logo goes away and I am left with a black screen with the switch still on.
Sounds like a part of the operating system got messed up. You could probably just recover it with the steamOS recovery image. If you need help, I’m sure you can start the rma process, and they can direct you on how to do it
I wonder if wine would. Be a good alternative to windows if we want to stick with Linux im probably wait a while before duel boot as for duel boot id try reinstall steam os or maybe message valve support see if they recommend anything.
Probably late but ran into same issue and i have windos with the dual boot and it would not load into steam os. I refused to reinstall so i held every button and no luck until i held the power button and it cycled on and off twice and problem solved: dont release the power button let it cycle on n off twice
I'm here to see if anyone can help me with a problem. I recently got the steamdeck OLED and have been trying to transfer my 1TB ssd from my first steam deck to the OLED. The problem is that it goes into a boot loop I'm at the point where I just erased all the memory from the 1TB and trying a reinstall but it just boot loops and goes to a black screen with white line at top left corner of the screen and sits on it for hours. Just to clarify if I put the factory original SSD back into the OLED it boots like normal so the new deck works fine. And if I do the same with the 1TB on my other Steam deck it's works fine as well, both of them boot normally into the steam deck login screen. But the moment I try to install the 1TB into the OLED it goes into boot loop.
My son just opened his steam deck and he set the language and connected to wifi. Then it said...Fatal error:steam needs to be online to update. Please confirm your network connection and try again. It will not let him do anything. The fatal message comes on the screen over and over. Any ideas??
I would just nuke the SSD do a health check and then install the Steam OS which only takes a couple of minutes... just repath your sd card since its Btrfs you'll be fine.✌
@@games_revealed how did you fix the issue, I just finished installing Windows partition to find that the SteamOS doesn't show in the boot menu anymore
I just got my steam deck and it crashes my whole network connection whenever i try to download a game. Ive done the developer options disable wifi power saving, ive gone into desktop mode and turned off ipv6 ive capped my max download rate for steam games and ive even updated my router firmware, i have a steam support ticket open but almost feel like i bought a 650$ network killer. Ive been able to play small games like dinkum that take 2 minutes to download but cannot download for more than 5 minutes without crashing my network for the whole house. Wondering if anyone here has similar issues
I haven't heard of this issue. Have you tried another wifi router at a coffee shop or a friends house? Sounds like its more your router than the deck, but if you can reproduce the same issue on a different network then you will probably need to RMA it.
i got a black flickering screen with a mouse cursir on it and it wont boot into steam gaming mode or desktop waiting for a usb adapter to see if re imaging will fix it
mine is not booting and i never installed Windows befor. Just some roms, they were runnig just fine and i dont know where the problem is. I had some FPS Drops and low batterie in the end, so i just turned it off, charged it 2 hours and now its not booting anymore.
I have the same problem it's definitely switching to the beta updates, that's all what I did and I ended up stuck on the logo and my steam deck is not working for now.
Just the other day I tried to boot up my Deck and it gives me the logo load up then black screen forever. Ive done 0 tinkering, only loaded up the emulators and roms. I want to say it had something to do with the battery dying while on sleep mode. Any suggestions?
Try a different SSD or at the least a complete reinstall of steam os. Remember to remove the memory card first. Clonezilla is free and can backup your windows partition.
Hello there, may I ask have you find solution for this problem? I had same issue yesterday. I want play a game suddenly FPS go 12 from 60, I realized that the fan is not working and the temperature was abnormally high so I close the game and try to restart the steam deck. Then it is same as what happened on you. The screen stop on the loading logo then turns black whatever how many times I tried. I tried to boot into windows11 in my SD card but it is really slow. I did not change anything on the steam deck everything is still original. Today I searched a lot on internet there are so many people had same problem on steam deck mostly they say it is mother board or power management chip is broken because of over heat. I am now looking for solution to fix it because send it back to US for steam support is not easy for me, I am on my own.
My deck is new buy after first time update, my deck need 40mins to get in to OS, I tried to reset it or reinstall, it just to same, even I try to get in the bios, it still need 40mins to get in to can any one fix it
If it's taking 40 mins to get into the OS then there is probably an issue with the device. Contact Steam support with your problem, and they will either try and walk you through a fix or RMA the device to fix it.
@@games_revealed hi! I think smth similar is happening with my steamOS after I've partitioned the drive and installed windows... How do you recover steam os without reinstalling everything?
The big advantage of the Switch is that you put the game on and it just works. Steam Deck are many problems you need to think about to play a mere game.
@@angeiuliano7152 well it's true a bit of tinkering is expected when pc gaming. A bit of tweaking here or there is ok. The problems with the switch it's too underpowered. My son's one struggling with some recent pc ports.
Thanks for the video... I am due to get mine in this quater at some point... things to avoid thanks for the video
Same here... August 15 hopefully
igot mine yesterday the same thing happened to me
You can hold the power button for a 15 sec to try to force reset the steamos boot
Holy shit it works! I successfully enter steam is now!
Yes it’s actually works omg thanks a ton 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉
Genius
OMG this guy is a legend!!
Your a god send
Oh snap! Hang in there, you should figure it out eventually.
Hi Games revealed, as a test, try to install Steam OS or Windows on a USB or SD Card and then boot it just to see if your Steam Deck is damage or not and the other thing is that we must not always trust new updates because the creators of the updates might unintentionally create a bad update that can cause problems to your steam deck.
As an opinion I can give for everybody is to backup your PC or Steam Deck partitions with Macrium reflect 7 or 8 that can backup Windows and Linux partitions though I'm not sure if Marium reflect 7 can backup Linux partitions and the other thing is that to backup Linux partitions in Macrium, then a medium compression might have to be used, anyway, so that way should anything go wrong, then boot Macrium Reflect via USB or SD Card in your Steam Deck or PC to restore your partitions so that
way you won't have to use a Steam OS recovery image and that is because the Steam OS recovery image will wipe off all your data and Macrium Reflect will restore all your date and not only to your PC or Steam Deck , but one day if you decide to buy a new Steam Deck or PC, then you can restore your older computer's PC or Steam Deck to a different computer or Steam Deck.
Also if you want to transfer your PC's Macrium backup, then you might be able to install it in your steam deck and maybe vice versa.
Generally Windows basically shags the bootloader on Linux. UEFI boot partition has likely been trashed. This is one of the reasons I don't bother with Windows anymore. If you really must. It's best to keep both OSes on entirely different drives and just boot them from the BIOS so neither knows about the other.
While I agree, windows is incredibly important for anyone who plays games online. I've had a high degree of success using the bios to select boot and my other os is windows 11 (it's just better for touch screens and I'm only booting in to play halo, destiny and occasionally fortnite with the kiddos.) I did not make any boot loader changes.
So if i boot my windows from an SD card I will avoid this issue
@@sarisalmi8763 yeah it should be reduced. But Windows on an SD card may be crappy. SteamOS is pretty great with SD cards. Windows in the past hasn't. You might be better off running Windows off a USB 3 drive. For example a dock with a PCMIE SSD card but into it. Pretty sure JSaux do something like that.
I recall someone mentioning that windows is really hostile with other OS's on the same drive.
Yeah, it can be a little annoying, but with a good boot partition manager, it’s not too bad. I’ve have windows installed along side my Mac OS on my MacBook for years and have had no problems.
@@games_revealed I run my SteamDeck with Steam OS on a 1TB drive and then my Windows is installed on my usb hub that has an ssd enclosure built in.
This happened to me yesterday after 3 days of owning it. I hadn't dual booted or anything, I had only installed heroic to play cyberpunk. I stopped playing Sunday morning and tapped the power button to put into standby. When I picked it up tomorrow night, nothing. Stuck on the Steam Logo and then it would go to a command line with steamos. Tried recovery using a usb hub but also a Dell dock. No dice on both. It would see the usb but nothing would happen. Waiting for another usb adapter from Amazon before logging a RMA. Pretty annoyed after waiting a year for this.
I've had nothing but problems with the boot manager. I've also read that Windows system updates can bork the bootloader. I went back to booting from the BIOS. No more headaches.
Great content! New sub here 👍
Awesome thank you!
My SD got borked too yesterday, most likely by Windows - possibly a feature update. I had upgraded my 64GB to 1TB Sabrent a week or so ago, and had 3 working partitions ext4 SteamOS, ntfs Windows and btrfs for common storage . BTRFS works fine for windows, I put my games there, but steamOS only sees it in desktop mode. I bought steam games, played in steamOS, played windows games, even installed MSOffice for some work stuff, also Batocera on microSD. All seemed fine. In the end, I thought I'll just have two partitions and forget about BTRFS, so yesterday I reimaged and did 2 partitions. Reinstalled SteamOS, seemed ok and then installed windows11 seemed fine too - reinstalled MSOffice and updated everything. Went back to SteamOS and found that gaming mode only saw 250GB which was 1/3 of the size of the partition - desktop mode could see it at full size. Weird. Decided to reinstall SteamOS, which seemed to show initially that gaming mode saw the full size of the partition but then was just flaky when rebooting into SteamOS. I suspect that it was the the final windows feature update that borked SteamOS EFI or whatever it's called.
So, I thought - Ok, I'll just have steamOS on the SSD and run windows off the microSD. Reimaged again, single partition. Seemed okay, but boot manager showed that I had two hard disks - one prefixed SteamOS. I was wondering if something else had gone wrong and was going to reboot again with the recovery USB and found it didn't work anymore. Either it kicked me back to the SSDs SteamOS or it stuck after the logo. Trying USB in dock/hub direct etc didn't work, trying other USBs didn't work, even microSD didn't work (in fact 'killed' the card). Was ready to consider RMA even though I'd opened it up to upgrade the SSD. Finally tried a new 128G microSD card as recovery USB and that seemed to work - booted quickly to recovery menu. It was late, so I didn't start the whole reimaging thing.
So lessons - one, be very careful about dual boot. Two, it seems to be very fussy about the USB card - most of my 8GB usb drives are quite old I guess. Fingers crossed I can get it up and running later today.
i would install GRUB or something. Windows Boot loader ignores Linux installations but you can probably select the Linux partition to boot manually from the UEFI menu. Use Grub repair features if steamOS uses grub or just reinstall the default boot loader. there are tools for linux to address this stuff.
blkid | grep -i efi to see the uefi partitions
If Grub is used for steamOS:
after mounting the root filesystem -
"grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda" where /mnt/ is the directory for the root filesystem of the linux install you are trying to repair on device /dev/sda
You can also try using chroot to the mounted filesystem root directory and run update-grub if creating a new grub bootloader is not necessary. Windows bootloader usually breaks GRUB MBR boot sector for loading the first stage of GRUB2.
you can use efibootmgr in linux while running the linux install in question to manipulate the EFI Boot Manager incase windows trampled them. examples:
efitbootmgr --create
efibootmgr --delete-bootnum
#modifying a boot entry
efitbootmgr --bootnum
to do this while running recovery or usb image. make sure you chroot your root directory to the root directory of the install in question.
in the situation where SteamOS uses it's own custom bootloader, then maybe all you need is to use efibootmgr to modify the efi partition boot entries.
When Steam release dual boot? On page we can read: DB will be released on SteamOS 3.0. Now we have 3.3 and silence...
About problem: try boot in Up volume+ power from file Esp/SteamOS > SteamCl.efi . I hear that windows updates destroy it.
Glad i picked up the Ally. Steam deck bricked out of no where and the frustration has lead me to not even care when valve will help me. This shouldnt even be happening on a 700 dollar system.
Failures can happen on any device. Glad you had a back up! Are you liking the Ally?
Uh uh I'll take it and totally fix it for you! Wink wink nudge nudge
Sounds like a fair deal :D
If the recovery did not work, I would boot a liveusb of Manjaro, delete all partitions in the ssd using KDE Partition tool, and reboot with recovery image and install steam os. Not sure if steamos has a partition manager. Probably you could use fdisk, but gui option is easy.
Is fail of the partition just re install the steam os like rebuilt the image or so
When my deck won't boot Tech support told me unplug the adapter then to go to the bios menu ( hold + and power) go to the "power" option then click on battery something ( the top option) this will power down your deck which you will see the light blink three times , twice in a row. Then I plug the deck adapter back in which will automatically boot the Deck back up. I was able to get my deck to reboot but that didn't solve the real problem.
I know this is an old video but from what I’m aware of changing to Beta would cause boot loader not to work correctly this is probably why it frozen boot loader is like decky doesn’t work properly if you change settings also updates will crash the system too.
I Got my DECK about 2 weeks ago and am still not sure about everything but mine has been doing This Thing where I will have it in sleep mode but when I Turn it back on it won’t Turn on I have to hold down power like it was powered off and when it Finally comes back on it saids… Verifying Installation it does This about once A day I am on The stable channel so I wouldn’t Think it is updated That much… Just wondering if This is normal Thanks
I just got my steam deck and it won't get past the update screen. It's on my wifi but it won't finish the update and start. I sometimes get an update error message.
Contact Steam and start the RMA process. They will get you taken care of, and you might not even have to send it in.
Hey im sorry this comment isnt related to this Video but you seem like an expert. It says it will get here after Q3 in october or longer if i would order my steam deck now could it be possible it arrives next year or does it 100% arrive in Q4?
If you reserve right now then you will most likely get it next year. We will learn more once Q4 hits. It's just 5 bucks to reserve.
I have just used the stea. Deck normaly. I havent opened it up, no duel boot no nothing. I was playing No Man Sky, and all of the sudden. I was getting bad lag realy bad. So I exited and shut it down. The batter was at 11% and figured that might be it. Plugged it in all night and same thing happened to me as he described. I hear the little chime when I press the button. But it just shows the logo for awhile then the logo goes away and I am left with a black screen with the switch still on.
Sounds like a part of the operating system got messed up. You could probably just recover it with the steamOS recovery image. If you need help, I’m sure you can start the rma process, and they can direct you on how to do it
I wonder if wine would. Be a good alternative to windows if we want to stick with Linux im probably wait a while before duel boot as for duel boot id try reinstall steam os or maybe message valve support see if they recommend anything.
Probably late but ran into same issue and i have windos with the dual boot and it would not load into steam os. I refused to reinstall so i held every button and no luck until i held the power button and it cycled on and off twice and problem solved: dont release the power button let it cycle on n off twice
I'm here to see if anyone can help me with a problem.
I recently got the steamdeck OLED and have been trying to transfer my 1TB ssd from my first steam deck to the OLED. The problem is that it goes into a boot loop I'm at the point where I just erased all the memory from the 1TB and trying a reinstall but it just boot loops and goes to a black screen with white line at top left corner of the screen and sits on it for hours.
Just to clarify if I put the factory original SSD back into the OLED it boots like normal so the new deck works fine.
And if I do the same with the 1TB on my other Steam deck it's works fine as well, both of them boot normally into the steam deck login screen. But the moment I try to install the 1TB into the OLED it goes into boot loop.
You can clean reinstall Steam OS via microSD if needed
I fixed the issue with the recovery image and a usb drive. Wasn't too bad
how?
My son just opened his steam deck and he set the language and connected to wifi. Then it said...Fatal error:steam needs to be online to update. Please confirm your network connection and try again. It will not let him do anything. The fatal message comes on the screen over and over. Any ideas??
I would just nuke the SSD do a health check and then install the Steam OS which only takes a couple of minutes... just repath your sd card since its Btrfs you'll be fine.✌
I fixed the issue, but if it comes up again then I might do this
@@games_revealed how did you fix the issue, I just finished installing Windows partition to find that the SteamOS doesn't show in the boot menu anymore
So how did you fix it
I just got my steam deck and it crashes my whole network connection whenever i try to download a game. Ive done the developer options disable wifi power saving, ive gone into desktop mode and turned off ipv6 ive capped my max download rate for steam games and ive even updated my router firmware, i have a steam support ticket open but almost feel like i bought a 650$ network killer. Ive been able to play small games like dinkum that take 2 minutes to download but cannot download for more than 5 minutes without crashing my network for the whole house. Wondering if anyone here has similar issues
I haven't heard of this issue. Have you tried another wifi router at a coffee shop or a friends house? Sounds like its more your router than the deck, but if you can reproduce the same issue on a different network then you will probably need to RMA it.
i got a black flickering screen with a mouse cursir on it and it wont boot into steam gaming mode or desktop waiting for a usb adapter to see if re imaging will fix it
Not sure if u got this fix but i go dual boot with out the manager and dont use game mode and enabled andine just did the exact yours did
How much free space do you have on your windows/linux partitions?
I still had 60 GB, so I’m sure it wasn’t a space issue
mine is not booting and i never installed Windows befor. Just some roms, they were runnig just fine and i dont know where the problem is. I had some FPS Drops and low batterie in the end, so i just turned it off, charged it 2 hours and now its not booting anymore.
same issue ，i tried to reinstall only steam os.unable to fix
If you can reinstall steam os then it might just be your hard drive dying
Oh..oh.
I have the same problem it's definitely switching to the beta updates, that's all what I did and I ended up stuck on the logo and my steam deck is not working for now.
Just the other day I tried to boot up my Deck and it gives me the logo load up then black screen forever.
Ive done 0 tinkering, only loaded up the emulators and roms.
I want to say it had something to do with the battery dying while on sleep mode. Any suggestions?
Try a different SSD or at the least a complete reinstall of steam os. Remember to remove the memory card first. Clonezilla is free and can backup your windows partition.
Hello there, may I ask have you find solution for this problem? I had same issue yesterday. I want play a game suddenly FPS go 12 from 60, I realized that the fan is not working and the temperature was abnormally high so I close the game and try to restart the steam deck. Then it is same as what happened on you. The screen stop on the loading logo then turns black whatever how many times I tried. I tried to boot into windows11 in my SD card but it is really slow. I did not change anything on the steam deck everything is still original. Today I searched a lot on internet there are so many people had same problem on steam deck mostly they say it is mother board or power management chip is broken because of over heat. I am now looking for solution to fix it because send it back to US for steam support is not easy for me, I am on my own.
What's with the sad music?
Can I reinstall my os without a PC as I don't have one
Please tell me how fix it,in my country doesn't have valve center.
In my case, I just reinstalled Steam OS on my device with the recovery drive Valve shows you how to make.
Or format the whole partition and install again steam os
I just needed to reformat the user partition, and it works now.
@@games_revealed so glad bro is a normal issue when you partition is made with not care happens the first time always
Sounds like part of EFI loader / pointers got borked
Bottom line is "Bad things happen when you Play with your Deck" 🤦
Haha, anytime you tinker, you run the risk of causing issues.
My deck is new buy after first time update, my deck need 40mins to get in to OS, I tried to reset it or reinstall, it just to same, even I try to get in the bios, it still need 40mins to get in to can any one fix it
If it's taking 40 mins to get into the OS then there is probably an issue with the device. Contact Steam support with your problem, and they will either try and walk you through a fix or RMA the device to fix it.
Putting device on sleep while updating any OS is not a good idea imo
Well, I didn’t put it to sleep while updating. I put it to sleep after changing the update channel. You have to hit apply to start the update process.
Why your steam deck is orange in front?
I have a dbrand skin on it
My is not working what can I do
RMA with Valve/Steam. That is the best thing you can do. Contact support
我是重装os系统五次，直到第五次，屏幕终于正常了。
And this is why I'm not brave enough to try this.
My deck is fine, but I had to recover my steam os so lost a little bit of data due to that.
@@games_revealed hi! I think smth similar is happening with my steamOS after I've partitioned the drive and installed windows... How do you recover steam os without reinstalling everything?
Just don't install windows. I don't understand why people want to do this. Just seems silly.
The big advantage of the Switch is that you put the game on and it just works.
Steam Deck are many problems you need to think about to play a mere game.
Yes and No, if you're just staying with SteamOS then you're fine.
@@Joreel plus the fact you get access to more and better games .
Well, I caused these problems. I was tinkering with different OSes and partitions. Steam os and game mode is pretty solid
If you truly think that way, you should avoid gaming on PC in general.
@@angeiuliano7152 well it's true a bit of tinkering is expected when pc gaming. A bit of tweaking here or there is ok. The problems with the switch it's too underpowered. My son's one struggling with some recent pc ports.
Steamdeck is trash...
Best trash I’ve had for gaming on the go.
I smell bait
I would run chkdsk /f /r in Windows see if that helps.