Ouch! That’s a good chunk to fix. I’d be tempted to tinker myself before paying that.

You’ve got more going for you than I have so far.

Steamdeck is sitting in it’s case til Valve get back to me on a ticket raised.

Of course it’s a year and one month since I bought the bloody thing as well 🤣

Further update, I’ve left it to now fully charge for a few hours and when I attempt to turn it on, I can faintly hear the electrical buzz/hiss attempting to start inside, the fan kicks on for less than half a second, then nothing happens.

When connected to an external monitor, it loads up fine.

My assumption is the screen is goosed/connection gone, so without an output to use, the steamdeck is just not powering on. But once an external monitor is connected, it has an output source so it’s happy to boot up it seems.

Likewise nothing has worked yet either.

Connecting it to monitor gets me to use it, but as soon as I disconnect, it just seems to shut down and doesn’t want to boot. Fans can be heard, but clearly not doing anything else.

I’ve factory reset it since and nothing. Leaving it on charge now to see if that helps, very doubtful.

I’ve submitted a ticket to steam.

Keep me posted.

I’ve got hope of something working, as the fans do kick in, I can power it on/off on that sense, along with being able to feel the haptic feedback of the touchpads. So I’m assuming it’s just to be screen that’s being dumb.

Gonna try hook it up to a portable monitor I have (and know it worked on before). If that works, then my next task is to attempt to drain the battery and start with a fresh charge and see if that works.

I love my steam deck, same as yourself I got the top line version and other than slapping a 1tb memory card in it, it’s unmodded.

I don’t play it near as much as I want to though. Soon to be 1 hear old in the house, moved long distance as well this past year and just settling in to a new place and work. So getting any sense of routine to fit gaming in to, has been pretty scarce.

I kick myself and hate valve a little for the fact a year after buying this, they’ve brought out a version that ticks more boxes and sounds much better.

But that’s tech these days of course.

What I’m excited for though, isn’t to trade in and upgrade on what I got - but know that this thing is still gonna do me good another 4 years and when they eventually bring out a version 2 of it, with actual tangible performance upgrades, it’s very likely to come with the better battery, oled screen and larger storage by default anyway.

So I’ll enjoy what I have for now. And enjoy knowing in a few years I’ll upgrade to the new version. Without spunking over money year after year.