Want to play games on the road? Of course, you can take a Sony Playstation or an X-Box with a TV. Haha, it’s a joke. But there’s a good portable solution — the Steam Deck. All your steam games you can take with you all around the world. It amazing device with a high-resolution 7-inch screen and a good battery (6-8 hours of playing time).
Since the console has just appeared, it has had a lot of small problems with some games. So try to always check for updates. Developers are trying to solve problems quickly for stable operation of the console.
But it happens that some games can freeze, quickly drain your battery or make a black screen. To solve this, you need to restart or factory reset.
Steam deck force restart
Press and hold the Power button for 12 seconds.
Release the button and press Power again to restart your device.
How to reset the Steam Deck console?
NOTE: the reset process will remove all your personal info and return the console to factory mode.
- Press the Steam button
- Go to Settings by using a joystick
- Press A button to choose
- Scroll down the menu to the end and find the Factory Reset menu.
- Press the A button to choose and confirm the reset process.
- In this step, you can be asked for the pin code if you have any setup.
- Steam Deck factory reset is done and you need to initial setup as the first time.
How to reset the pin code for the Steam deck?
If you forget your PIN, you can reset it with a few steps.
To start resetting you have to click on the Steam Deck Options button (the one with the 3 dots).
In the next step, you will need to enter the username and password of the account for which you are resetting the PIN.