I just got my OLED 512gb steam deck today but I’m having some issues. I ordered a WD black 2tb sn770m nvme drive for it.

First issue: from the original 512gb SSD I couldn’t connect to a WiFi network (2.4ghz or 5ghz) during setup no matter what I tried.

Second issue: I swapped out the 512gb original SSD for the WD 2tb SSD. The new WD drive was not visible from the boot menu. I still tried to boot into steam recovery from a USB and sd card (using Rufus). Finally got to the recovery OS and selected the “reimage steam deck” option. I was then greeted by the “/dev/nvme0n1 does not exist – no nvme drive detected” error.

I can’t get on WiFi on the provided SSD and I can’t get the new WD drive to boot so that I can reimage steamOS. What am I doing wrong here? I’m so frustrated

  • delonejuanderer@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    In the same boat as ya. I’ve tried nearly everything currently out to get a new ssd to work in the deck. No matter what I’ve done, I’ve tried 2 different USB drives, 1 isn’t even picked up, the other gives me this error. I even attempted “cloning” the ssd to the new one using the console short cut in the deck and it just doesn’t even pick up my ssd when I swap it into the “cloned” one. I’m just flustered as all hell because I had no issues upgrading the lcd deck THIS SAME SSD but this ones nothing but issues so far.

    • Puzzlegeek15@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Never had the LCD model. This is my first impression of the steam deck. Needless to say, I’m not a fan yet. I have a switch OLED and everything just worked since day one

    • Puzzlegeek15@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      If you take a look at my update you’ll see I was able to finally get the drive to be recognized in the recoveryos. I think the issue I had was some combination of taking the recoveryos file as-is from the site instead of extracting it and then also using balena etcher instead of Rufus.

      Not sure whether Rufus or using the unzipped file was the issue. Try downloading the steam recoveryos .bz2 file and then extracting it on your computer. Then point balena etcher at the .img file that was extracted. Then boot into the detachable storage (SD card or USB) with the recoveryos and see if you can reimage from there. This is what finally worked for me, but ymmv. Good luck!