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  • The steam deck is basically a laptop with controllers instead of a keyboard. The thing with game compatability is due to the fact that the steamdeck runs linux. Linux has excellent support for retro game emulation, so no worries there. Just install emudeck and your good to go. In order to run windows games, valve uses the proton layer, which is basically wine fine tuned for running games. The steam deck uses this automatically for windows steam games and its just a checkbox setting to enable it for non-steam exe games. That being said, while it works for a majority of games and windows apps in general, some still have bugs. You can look on the protonDB and it will tell you what fames work and how well. Games with easy anticheat have been known to have issues as well.




  • Can you get into the bios? If yes then reinstall steamOS with a recovery image

    If no, i see you said there was haptic feedback? Do you have a type-C to hdmi hub? Maybe its booting but the screen just isnt working…

    If the screen is working, i think its a firmware issue. Try a cmos reset. If that doesnt work, try opening it up and removing the battery and ssd. Let it sit for a while with the battery and charger unplugged, then plug it in (without the ssd) and try to boot it. Removing all sources of power will try to force the bios and any nvram (or whatever the steam deck uses to store those variables) corrupted data back stock defaults. Removing the ssd and any other external device will see if something went horribly wrong with them that would cause post failure. If none of that works the you either have a dead mainboard or you need a bios reflash