Since one of the recent updates (not sure of exactly which one), my Steam Deck will not go to sleep - whether from pressing the power button or via the Steam Power Menu - when my SD card is inserted. As the title mentions, it initiates the sleep cycle but will immediately wake back up within 5 seconds if my SD card is in. I am, however, able to put it to sleep if I remove my SD card and reinsert after it is “fully asleep”.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a fix from my searches. There were a few threads that mention the “storage device maintenance tasks” at the bottom of Settings > System, but that didn’t make a difference for me.
Before I try backing up my SD card (essentially my emulation storage) and reformatting it, has anyone else experienced this and know of a fix?
Unfortunately, upon further digging, mine was coincidental in it happening around the update time. Mine card was actually corrupted.
With the issue I was having and unable to find a solution, I decided to format it and start from scratch, but it even failed doing that - both with the Deck’s tool and trying again with Windows (simply as a test since the format wouldn’t have been compatible).