Valve Debunks Panic Over Steam Machine Red-LED GPU Failures
Rumors of an Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death-like defect for Valve's Steam Machine have been spreading for the past week, but follow-up comments from both Valve and the original poster have assuaged these worries.
Specifically, user u/me_hill on Reddit followed up on his original thread with a comment explaining that the Red Line of Death had resolved itself by just being kept unplugged overnight. This would be a highly unusual way to fix a GPU failure, but as a Valve employee in the same Reddit thread soon explained, that's because it was in fact not GPU failure at all.
The Valve support account named u/SteamHWSupport explainedthat the the out-of box LED error codes were actually mirrored. The key on Valve's site, which corresponds to the right side being lit indicating GPU failure, is only accurate after a BIOS update. Out of the box, the so-called Red Line of...
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