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Early Steam Machine adopter reports GPU failure and "red line of death" after brief use

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6h ago· 3 min readenNews

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Summary

An early Steam Machine pre-order customer reports a GPU failure after playing No Man's Sky and performing a firmware update, resulting in a "red line of death" on the front LED display and rendering the unit unusable. The user described the experience as "pretty cool for the 20 minutes that it worked."

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Pretty cool for the 20 minutes that it worked.

the user reported that their Steam Machine started showing a 'red line of death' on the front-mounted LED display following an apparent GPU issue after playing No Man's Sky and then performing a firmware update

Following the error, the unit doesn't seem to be usable at all.

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"Pretty cool for the 20 minutes that it worked".

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