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My Steam Machine will not display a picture anymore… so that’s not good. Holding the power button doesn’t seem to do anything so… did I brick this thing trying to go into desktop mode?

Jose Argumedo

@arguingmeadows.com

Unplugging and plugging it back in didn’t work. Starting to get nervous with this thing.

Jose Argumedo

@arguingmeadows.com

Got it back, thank God. I think the HDMI did something weird. I restarted my TV and it worked, but Switch, PS5 and AppleTV worked totally fine and displayed picture but Steam Machine just wouldn’t do the HDMI handshake correctly for some reason.

Jose Argumedo

@arguingmeadows.com

Craaaap… tried to go into Desktop mode and same thing again. There’s something in the Desktop mode transition that the HDMI is doing.

Jose Argumedo

@arguingmeadows.com

If it does it again, I think I’m just gonna try completely resetting to factory settings. I swear to God though, it’s always something with this thing.

29/9/26, 9:51 pm0 reposts2 likes

Jose Argumedo

@arguingmeadows.com

Ok, I got it back again. I’ve decided to turn off VRR and cap the Steam Machine to 1080p/60 just to make sure the TV doesn’t suddenly have an issue (I had it set to 4K with no frame cap)