Updated my dock to the latest firmware today. It worked fine until I restarted my deck to try and resolve some game streaming issues. After restarting the deck, the dock no longer works. When it is first connected to power, the ethernet lights strobe then go dark. Ethernet isn’t being detected by the deck and neither is the HDMI connection, but it still passes power on to the deck. Anyone else have any issues with this after the latest update?
I tried that several times, but unfortunately it is 100% dead. I tried pulling power probably 10+ times, but same result every time. Ethernet strobes then goes dark, and only power pass through works.
My problems aren’t necessarily caused by the dock firmware.
I used a cheap dongle I bought from a local supermarket a year ago to connect to my living room TV. It had worked fine in the past, but now I had to boot the deck 4 times to get clean picture and audio.
Culprit is definitely the Steam OS update 3.5.5.
I updated the dock firmware right after that update. It actually failed two times and it only worked after I connected the dock with wire directly instead of decks wifi.
I’ve seen other reports of dock issues on 3.5.5. I myself have a problem with muted audio output that I can’t resolve outside of using the desktop mode and manually selecting the audio output I need (I have to stay in desktop mode for it to keep working).
Sigh. I had previously taken my Deck on the road a few weeks back for the first time, and I ran into unrecoverable issues then that kept me from using it until I could get back to a computer and USB drive. Right after I reinstalled the OS, I ran into yet another bug in the UEFI firmware - do NOT choose to restore defaults on firmware 118 or you’ll lose audio and touch. The only way to recover from that was to downgrade the firmware and then upgrade again.
I genuinely love the Steam Deck, but the number of hard-to-resolve bugs lately has been HIGH.
If you can still roll back to the previous OS version, that should fix it for now. Hold down the [***] button during boot up and select the previous version.
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Yes. Every reboot seems like a lottery. Hdmi, hdmi audio or USB connected peripherals might not work.
If something is missing, disconnecting dock power and deck connection for a moment and you’ll get a reroll and everything might work.
I tried that several times, but unfortunately it is 100% dead. I tried pulling power probably 10+ times, but same result every time. Ethernet strobes then goes dark, and only power pass through works.
My problems aren’t necessarily caused by the dock firmware.
I used a cheap dongle I bought from a local supermarket a year ago to connect to my living room TV. It had worked fine in the past, but now I had to boot the deck 4 times to get clean picture and audio.
Culprit is definitely the Steam OS update 3.5.5.
I updated the dock firmware right after that update. It actually failed two times and it only worked after I connected the dock with wire directly instead of decks wifi.
I’ve seen other reports of dock issues on 3.5.5. I myself have a problem with muted audio output that I can’t resolve outside of using the desktop mode and manually selecting the audio output I need (I have to stay in desktop mode for it to keep working).
Sigh. I had previously taken my Deck on the road a few weeks back for the first time, and I ran into unrecoverable issues then that kept me from using it until I could get back to a computer and USB drive. Right after I reinstalled the OS, I ran into yet another bug in the UEFI firmware - do NOT choose to restore defaults on firmware 118 or you’ll lose audio and touch. The only way to recover from that was to downgrade the firmware and then upgrade again.
I genuinely love the Steam Deck, but the number of hard-to-resolve bugs lately has been HIGH.
If you can still roll back to the previous OS version, that should fix it for now. Hold down the [***] button during boot up and select the previous version.