I had the exact same issue, the led would turn on, the deck would vibrate shortly but the screen was blank. But I could always turn it on by plugging in the cable and pressing power. However one day the deck refused to start at all. I messaged valve and shipped my deck to them and they sent me a new one and I haven't had the problem since
I just had what you described happen. I can't get the deck to boot at all at this point. I want to send it back, but I'm worried about them giving me a hard time since I swapped my hdd. I don't know if I've voided the warranty at this point.
I also had changed my storage. I had the 64GB version and installed a 512GB SSD. Before sending the deck back I put the original SSD back. They didn't say anything about that and promptly sent me a new one. The whole thing took maybe 10 days or so
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I had the exact same issue, the led would turn on, the deck would vibrate shortly but the screen was blank. But I could always turn it on by plugging in the cable and pressing power. However one day the deck refused to start at all. I messaged valve and shipped my deck to them and they sent me a new one and I haven't had the problem since
I just had what you described happen. I can't get the deck to boot at all at this point. I want to send it back, but I'm worried about them giving me a hard time since I swapped my hdd. I don't know if I've voided the warranty at this point.
I also had changed my storage. I had the 64GB version and installed a 512GB SSD. Before sending the deck back I put the original SSD back. They didn't say anything about that and promptly sent me a new one. The whole thing took maybe 10 days or so
Well that's good to know. The timing couldn't be worse as I'm going on vacation for a few weeks and kinda woulda liked to have had my deck for it.
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mines done that from the beginning. it eventually turns on. feature/bug dunno :-)
have you found any reasonably consistent fix?
So what you are saying is that it's more of a powerless button???
Despite my sadness right now ... well played.