Steam Machine User Faces First Case of Red Line of Death “RLOD” On His Unit Just 20 Minutes In, Indicating a GPU Failure
https://wccftech.com/steam-machine-user-faces-first-case-of-red-line-of-death-rlod/
https://wccftech.com/steam-machine-user-faces-first-case-of-red-line-of-death-rlod/
38 Comments
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 94 pts · 54d
The click-rate on this thing has to be through the roof when a single machine failing is news.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 54d
A single machine failing represents probably 10% of the entire population tho
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 54d
How exactly did you come to that conclusion?
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 54d
Anecdotal evidence has led me to estimate that the entirety of Valve's stock of Steam Machines was ten units.
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 53d
Happy cake day!
lol, people down voting someone wishing someone else a nice day. Imagine that.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 53d
Thanks :p
viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 34 pts · 54d
BSOD RROD YLOD and now RLOD
lolOD
axh@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 54d
ROTFLOD
BewareOfIdiot@nord.pub · 13 pts · 54d
Rolling On The Floor Literally OverDosing?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 6 pts · 54d
Typical Tuesday night for us cool folk.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 54d
I know I've been working a lot, but please tell me it's not Tuesday
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 54d
I like the idea of a floor of death.
MightyLordJason@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 54d
LMAODO
warmaster@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 54d
ROFLCOPTERLOD
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 54d
ROTFLMAOWTFOMGOD
4am@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 53d
LOLCANOLOD
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 54d
Just need green and we can have RGB of death. Stick blue and yellow next to each other perhaps?
FishFace@piefed.social · 6 pts · 54d
I believe Apple had the rainbow beachball of death ages ago
4am@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 53d
Car RAMROD
dan1101@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 54d
There will always be a few hardware failures, we will have to wait to see if larger tends develop.
Inucune@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 54d
1 failure should be a quick replacement by Valve. Rma it.
FishFace@piefed.social · 11 pts · 54d
Only if they have parts.
Thorry@feddit.org · 20 pts · 54d
Any rollout like this has a few percent of units assigned for RMA purposes. It's absolutely normal to have some hardware failures and replacing them is expected beforehand.
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 54d
Things like this is why I decided, I don’t want to be an early adopter.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 54d
It's one single failure. Statistically it would be amazing if there wasn't a single DOA unit.
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 54d
ouch, wondering if its overheating or they were sold a bad card
Melonpoly@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 54d
Gamers Nexus tests don't show overheating to be an issue, it could just be a defect but only time will tell.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 23 pts · 54d
The airflow in the case is pretty great for something with a solid front - thermally there isn't much to criticize about the steam machine. that it ran for 20 minutes and then died with an GPU post error would make me think less about a direct chip failure and more about a resistor or capacitor having a contact issue, prompted by vibrations from the fan and the previous transport, maybe even outright transport damage escalating after a short runtime.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 54d
There's a lot of power limitations that Valve put on the Steam Machine to prevent it from getting warm or needing to speed up the fans (making it louder). It's part of why the Steam Machine doesn't perform well compared to similarly priced computers
Heat is definitely not the issue
zewm@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 54d
wtf. I thought they were still in reservation mode. I got my reservation in but not a buy option. Is this a review unit?
warm@kbin.earth · 10 pts · 54d
If you got in the queue, you were sent an email confirming it so. Then you just wait for your window to purchase. If you didnt get an email, then you didnt make it in this time around.
Master@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 54d
you didnt get picked for the raffle then.
zewm@lemmy.world · -20 pts · 54d
But all the scalpers did. Nice. I hate the reservation system. Should just have sold it outright like the controller.
I hope they don’t do this shit for the frame. I rather just buy it outright than be in a stupid ass lottery.
3bygone3@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 54d
Without the system you'd have zero chance to buy one, all would be gone the millisecond it's up. All bought by bots watching the page constantly.
zewm@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 54d
That’s not true at all. I have purchased every valve hardware product on day 1 without problem.
I got the original controller and the new one, as well as the index.
The reservation system sucks. Just give me a buy option. I can beat the bots. I even got a 3090 and 3070 during covid problems.
x1gma@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 54d
The controller didn't even have a fraction of the hype that the steam machine has. The index at that time was extremely pricey when alternatives existed for a third of the price. The steam machine is hyped up as fuck, comparably cheap for a pre-built, and is one of the first systems coming with steam os out of the box. Your comparison sucks, and you sure as hell cannot beat bots when there is a serious scalping operation going on.
4am@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 53d
lol. lmao, even
Telodzrum@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 54d
No, almost certainly a representative sample of scalpers did.