History doesn\u2019t always repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Last month, Valve finally began shipping the anticipated Steam Machine, albeit at a much higher price tag. Players were excited to crack into the new PC-console hybrid, though one only got about 20 minutes in before experiencing the \u201cred line of death.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Steam Machine was pretty cool for the 20 minutes that it worked\u201d posted Reddit user me_hill<\/a>. \u201cGot five minutes of No Man\u2019s Sky in, then I installed the update the machine had available and it bricked itself. If you\u2019re still in the queue, look on the bright side: they\u2019re presumably going to iron this crap out.\u201d<\/p>\n The poster\u2019s Steam Machine had a glowing red line along the bottom right half, where you would ideally see blue. Regrettably, this configuration means the console has suffered a GPU failure according to Steam\u2019s guide for its HAL 9000-style LED displays<\/a>. At first it appeared to leave the console bricked, though after leaving the system unplugged for a day and some user suggested \u201cBIOS stuff,\u201d the Steam Machine sprang back to life.<\/p>\n It has inevitably flooded back memories of the \u201cred ring of death.\u201d The infamous light pattern the Xbox 360 used to flag down its numerous fatal hardware issues. This often required replacing units and would cost Microsoft over a billion dollars over the 360\u2019s lifetime. This Steam Machine error seems far rarer so far, though it\u2019s funny Valve would even tempt fate by incorporating it.<\/p>\n The response to the Steam Machine is divisive to say the least<\/a>. Some praise the device<\/a> for expanding the Steam Deck\u2019s campaign to blend the accessible console and confounding Linux experiences. Others are more mixed, most notably former Sony Interactive president Shuhei Yoshida<\/a>, who enjoyed the device but found its performance a step back<\/a>. Nobody\u2019s happy with the price, which Valve had to raise in light of the AI-fueled hardware crunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI was tired and irritable after a long day of work,\u201d posted me_hill, \u201can ominous GPU error code wasn\u2019t exactly the seamless plug-and-play experience I had hoped for. But I guess if anyone encounters the same error, don\u2019t panic like I did, just let it sit for a few hours and it will somehow sort itself out. Anyway, I\u2019m sorry for the false alarm, thanks to everyone who suggested solutions, and now I\u2019m going to spend this weekend playing Crusader Kings until my eyes hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"History doesn\u2019t always repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Last month, Valve finally began shipping the anticipated Steam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-743917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}