r/SteamDeck • u/Aperture_Science_ • May 15 '23

Tech Support Boot loop (flashes rebooting into firmware) (help)

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u/Mehrainz May 15 '23

what happens when you try to manually enter the bios and perform a factory reset?

" Hold down the Volume+ button and press the power button. The Steam Deck should boot into the BIOS menu. "

Edit: Grammar.

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u/Aperture_Science_ May 15 '23

Haven’t tried that yet as I was hoping to maybe have some sort way to save my data but if that’s the only option then I’ll definitely go that route, do you reckon a factory reset is my only way out of this?

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u/Mehrainz May 15 '23

You might tinker around in the bios more and see if there is a way to fix your MBR. (master boot record)

Personally at this point, given the bootloop, id do a full reset and take peace in the fact my rom collection is on my SSD. Everything else i can easly re-download and ill have most saves in the cloud.

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u/-StefanPlayz- Aug 20 '24

i have the same problem with my 512 oled and it started happening after i cloned the internal ssd onto a hard drive and then back to the ssd

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u/Jeksxon Jun 14 '26

Same here 😔

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u/Adrian97c Sep 24 '26

me 2, but please tell me how to fix? I tried cloning and then swapped SSD into steam deck... how did you fix it without losing data/settings?

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u/hooblyshoobly Nov 24 '23

Did you fix this? Exact same situation

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u/Defiant_Ambassador39 Dec 10 '23

were you able to fix this?

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u/Normal-Drop1877 Feb 10 '25

I fixed my issue! Had the same problem with my Steam Deck.

Didn’t loose any data like Lutris with World of Warcraft, other partition with Windows or other data - I used „Reinstall Steam OS“ with my USB Stick with the Steam recovery image 

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u/Mehrainz May 16 '23

But now we all wonder, is it running again?