First, correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation.

Nothing you did or described would generally harm the computer or windows. It sounds like your struggle to close Steam is a symptom of an underlying issue, and I'd be willing to bet anything you did would have resulted in the same thing.

These things hapoen, some one is bound to win the bad luck lottery.

Okay yeah, we're not going there.

Originally posted by R4v3n-45:

Okay yeah, we're not going there.

Your SSD has died, get a new one and stop wasting everyone's time.

Originally posted by R4v3n-45:

Great just great... tried to close Steam while it was downloading Helldivers 2, it wouldn't close, so I resorted to Task Manager, that wouldn't fully open... TWICE. Then I tried to sign out of the computer itself... infinite loading on trying to sign out, got fed up with waiting and tried to reboot the computer then... surprise surprise the gaming family computer is now bricked from attempting to close an game client, not even automatic repair works.

Please describe precisely how it is bricked.

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Originally posted by R4v3n-45:

Okay yeah, we're not going there.

Your SSD has died, get a new one and stop wasting everyone's time.

And this is why I don't bother putting this stuff out there...

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by R4v3n-45:

Great just great... tried to close Steam while it was downloading Helldivers 2, it wouldn't close, so I resorted to Task Manager, that wouldn't fully open... TWICE. Then I tried to sign out of the computer itself... infinite loading on trying to sign out, got fed up with waiting and tried to reboot the computer then... surprise surprise the gaming family computer is now bricked from attempting to close an game client, not even automatic repair works.

Please describe precisely how it is bricked.

Won't boot at all, even the automatic repair won't work, both infinite circle dots

And that's an report and block for you CSGO scammer

Please do not click on links like that, you'd be signing yourself up for account hijacking.

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Originally posted by R4v3n-45:

Okay yeah, we're not going there.

Your SSD has died, get a new one and stop wasting everyone's time.

After re-reading this, I honestly question how you assumed that... kind of feels a bit suspicious to me since you don't even know what the computer's specs is other than it being an gaming pc...

Bricked means you can't do ANYTHING with your device. If it powers on, it's not bricked. As others have suggested, you most likely have some sort of hardware fault, such as a Harddrive or SSD failure. Steam did not damage your device.

You will need to troubleshoot your PC to find the fault. Nobody here can fix it for you, unless you want to invite them into your house.

Originally posted by Hey Im Recon:

Bricked means you can't do ANYTHING with your device. If it powers on, it's not bricked. As others have suggested, you most likely have some sort of hardware fault, such as a Harddrive or SSD failure. Steam did not damage your device.

You will need to troubleshoot your PC to find the fault. Nobody here can fix it for you, unless you want to invite them into your house.

Then why did Steam stop responding? Followed by Task Manager doing the same exact thing?

Originally posted by R4v3n-45:

Originally posted by Hey Im Recon:

Bricked means you can't do ANYTHING with your device. If it powers on, it's not bricked. As others have suggested, you most likely have some sort of hardware fault, such as a Harddrive or SSD failure. Steam did not damage your device.

You will need to troubleshoot your PC to find the fault. Nobody here can fix it for you, unless you want to invite them into your house.

Then why did Steam stop responding? Followed by Task Manager doing the same exact thing?

because the system waited for the drive to respond

Originally posted by R4v3n-45:

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Your SSD has died, get a new one and stop wasting everyone's time.

After re-reading this, I honestly question how you assumed that... kind of feels a bit suspicious to me since you don't even know what the computer's specs is other than it being an gaming pc...

It’s a pretty simple conclusion based on your OP, every single thing you mentioned is a symptom of a dead storage drive.

Happened while downloading,
Task Manager crashed.
Windows wouldn’t respond > signed out > infinite loading.
Now you PC will post, but won’t boot to Windows,

My gran could tell that your SSD is dead, you don’t even need to know about computers.

Applications cannot 'brick' a computer

Applications no longer have access to the HAL or Kernel layers of Windows. Even anti-virus programs don't have access to low levels of the OS. Meaning that even if a program went haywire, it can only crash itself. And that's it. BSOD are much more rare today because the HAL and kernel are so removed from applications. Even bad drivers at the HAL layer almost never cause an entire system to hang or BSOD anymore. The days of bad ATI drivers rebooting your system are like 2 DECADES out of date at this point.

And while some people continue to seemingly think that 'programs can overheat my system' this is simply not true. Heat is a COOLING PROBLEM. not a program problem. Its utterly irrelevant if a game uses 100% of both your CPU and GPU. This does not 'overheat' your system or 'damage' it or 'use up its electrons'. A PROPERLY COOLED system can run at 100% CPU and 100% GPU for a DECADE without issue. I have AIX systems that run non stop for literally years and have cooling requirements that sound like its going to take off from the data center. Shockingly these systems are not 'damaged' by the fact that the bank 'uses' these systems to their fullest, all the time, all day, every day for years.