TL;DR
- A Steam Machine user encountered the Red Line of Death within 20 minutes of using the device.
- The error indicates a GPU failure.
- The Steam Machine has its GPU soldered onto the motherboard, so it can’t be replaced by regular users.
Valve opened reservations for the Steam Machine late last month, and the gaming PC has already started reaching some users. However, one customer who got their hands on Valve’s pre-built PC has already run into a potentially major hardware fault.
User me_hill made a post on Reddit showing their new Steam Machine displaying a Red Line of Death (via Wccftech). The unit no longer boots and is unusable. Worse still, this happened within 20 minutes of their using the device. The user further adds that they were playing No Man’s Sky on the device when they decided to install an available update. Since then, the machine shows only a red line and doesn’t boot or display anything on the monitor.
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