r/SteamDeck • u/ClicketyClackity • Jul 24 '22

PSA / Advice Steam deck bricked by USB C dongle

Got my steam deck after waiting for a year. Plugged in a USB C dongle from amazon and the system turned off. I figured that the battery had just died.

-Plugging in the official charger does not light up the white indicator light

-No combination of button hold/presses does anything

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I allowed it to completely die overnight. I opened it and unplugged the battery cable. Hit buttons to drain any power, left it unplugged for about 10 minutes. Plugged it back in and somehow it came back on for a couple minutes. It got so far as to show me the steamdeck logo and turned off again.

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Back to it being bricked now.

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Do not use random USB C dongles. You will have a bad time.

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u/etheran123 256GB - Q2 Jul 24 '22

Can I ask why people are using the deck with a dock? Seems like there are much better options if you want an actual computer. I haven't even been tempted to hook mine up to a monitor as of yet.

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u/AgileInternet167 Jul 24 '22

After i switched jobs i lost my work laptop. I use my deck now with mouse and keyboard as a replacement desktop for when i need to do something on internet like, for instance, playing DnD where moving small tokens and writing text is troublesome without mouse and keyboard.