I’ve been on vacation all week waiting to open my new deck when I get home tonight, and you tell me this! Ill surely have to return it now

Yes you can turn it off in the BIOS

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OP did you have and SD card that you were using as well (perhaps for emulation station like I do) and did it remount OK?

I bet this explains all the code commits that gaming leaks thought was some kind of reboot a few weeks ago.