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Repair, disassembly, and troubleshooting information for the Steam Deck OLED, a 2023 refresh of the popular handheld gaming console made by Valve. Released on November 16, 2023. Identified by model number 1030.

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There's a 1/4" White Line across the bottom of Newly-Replaced Screen

I recently replaced a cracked screen in my steam deck OLED (512 GB) and a white bar appears across the new screen when I boot it up. Everything else looks alright, if not a bit low-resolution. The white strip blocks out UI and gameplay that expect that part of the screen to be working. It does scale in brightness along with the rest of the display, and occasionally red and yellow horizontal strips appear inside that white strip

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I have uninstalled, then reinstalled this screen three times trying to see if it was the connector and making sure the pins matched the instructional photo. This is the result each time. I would put my old screen back in to test, but it has been shattered and will not display anything. I am wondering if this may be a compatibility issue or if perhaps I received a defective screen replacement. Here some images of the display model#s in case that helps.

Old Display:

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New Display:

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did you get this resolved? i am having the same issue.

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Hi there!

It does sound like a bad replacement part.

1 way to test, is to test it with another screen.

I would return the part and get yourself a new one! See if that fixed it. If the exact same issues comes up again, then you do know that it's something else. 1 way to make it easy, test with another screen!

If you have any questions, please let us know!

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