Save me $185 please!
So after going back and forth with support and support saying it'll be $185 to RMA, I'm at a loss. My steam deck is out of warranty and I can't afford $185 atm.
So...it'll freeze like in the video until I force restart it or crashing and restarting randomly. I've done every permutation of button holding and plugging and unplugging the USB as per steam support suggested.
Edit: The haptics in the touch pads still work while it's frozen. If that matters.
I've even factory reset and reimaged. It still freezes or crashes and resets. It's gotta be a hardware issue right? But what?
Help a brotha out!
EDIT2: Got a DM suggesting to run Sudo Dmesg. It returned "i2c_dw_handle_tx_abort: lost arbitration and Buffer I/O error on dev sda". So it's either an SSD or Mobo fault afaik. Thanks for all the suggestions guys! I really appreciate you taking the time to offer some help. Gonna try a different SSD. If that doesn't work then I'll have to just eat the cost or sell it for parts.