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Spleen Sauce · 17 Feb 2023 at 10:31

brandy12345 said:
Any help with this:
https://flic.kr/p/2ohj8yR

DB6B0A54-E0B9-495A-83BB-352EE0E55539

When i enter boot manager.

flic.kr

i already have steamOS on boot and now today i booted the deck up fine but screen just froze when trying to play a game, so i turned the power off as i could not do anything with deck and upon booting up im getting the message i have linked to.

Looks like it can’t find the internal SSD, could be that’s gone pop. If you go into the bios can you see any drives anywhere in there showing?

brandy12345 · 17 Feb 2023 at 10:36

No drives in there, i can only see my micro sd card via dolphin.

wunkley · 17 Feb 2023 at 12:24

brandy12345 said:
No drives in there, i can only see my micro sd card via dolphin.

If you are using dolphin (deck file explorer) then that means you have booted into the deck and running desktop mode, but you're telling us it's not finding the SSD drive? If it's not booting how are you in Dolphin? Need more info fella....

brandy12345 · 17 Feb 2023 at 13:19

wunkley said:
If you are using dolphin (deck file explorer) then that means you have booted into the deck and running desktop mode, but you're telling us it's not finding the SSD drive? If it's not booting how are you in Dolphin? Need more info fella....

When im trying to install the steamOS recovery via my usb stick, it takes me to the “Home Screen“ with the four options at the top (recover steamOS etc) but when i select one of the options its showing no nvme drive detected, so when i select the “x” to come out of the konsole i can move around the screen to get onto dolphin and see my micro sd card but no ssd.

just to make my day even more confused, i have booted up to the boot manager and its showing this ?

https://flic.kr/p/2ohpydw

how is this happened ? As yesterday there was nothing showing ?

wunkley · 17 Feb 2023 at 14:12

brandy12345 said:
When im trying to install the steamOS recovery via my usb stick, it takes me to the “Home Screen“ with the four options at the top (recover steamOS etc) but when i select one of the options its showing no nvme drive detected, so when i select the “x” to come out of the konsole i can move around the screen to get onto dolphin and see my micro sd card but no ssd.

just to make my day even more confused, i have booted up to the boot manager and its showing this ?

https://flic.kr/p/2ohpydw

how is this happened ? As yesterday there was nothing showing ?

Yes, that's definitley odd. So today, it is showing your SSD - the top one (Sabrent)

Just to confirm, are you trying to do a total wipe and re-image your deck, as per here? https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1b71-edf2-eb6d-2bb3
As it's now showing your SSD can you not go ahead and do a re-image?

brandy12345 · 17 Feb 2023 at 14:36

wunkley said:
Yes, that's definitley odd. So today, it is showing your SSD - the top one (Sabrent)

Just to confirm, are you trying to do a total wipe and re-image your deck, as per here? https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1b71-edf2-eb6d-2bb3
As it's now showing your SSD can you not go ahead and do a re-image?

I just dont understand it, as yesterday i was told if its not showing the ssd then its definitively the ssd is the problem, so i have made arrangements to get the ssd replaced, but before i was going to open the deck up to take out the ssd i just thought to boot it up one last time and this is when all these strange things happen:
i can see the sabrent ssd in the boot manager.
and i can fully boot back into the decks home screen like nothing has happened, but it just freezes the screen So I can’t do anything and after a few mins the screen goes blank but the deck is still powered on, but nothing is happening (just a blank screen).

wunkley · 17 Feb 2023 at 17:59

brandy12345 said:
I just dont understand it, as yesterday i was told if its not showing the ssd then its definitively the ssd is the problem, so i have made arrangements to get the ssd replaced, but before i was going to open the deck up to take out the ssd i just thought to boot it up one last time and this is when all these strange things happen:
i can see the sabrent ssd in the boot manager.
and i can fully boot back into the decks home screen like nothing has happened, but it just freezes the screen So I can’t do anything and after a few mins the screen goes blank but the deck is still powered on, but nothing is happening (just a blank screen).

Doesn't sound good. Whilst you can still see the SSD in the boot menu though, I would definitely try to do a full reimage and see if that helps. You've got nothing to lose.

When I first got my deck a few months ago it was very twitchy. First time I ever turned it on it didn't boot up properly and I thought it was a dud. After several hard resets and then software updates it seemed fine though and now *touch wood* it's solid as a rock, and I've messed around with it, a lot! (including several reimages).

kakarott · 18 Feb 2023 at 07:30

What's the best way of copying files from a SD card to a bigger one? Cloning? Any good apps form that on window?

dan958 · 18 Feb 2023 at 11:08

kakarott said:
What's the best way of copying files from a SD card to a bigger one? Cloning? Any good apps form that on window?

If you are trying to clone the entire card, CloneZilla is a good program

kakarott · 18 Feb 2023 at 13:00

dan958 said:
If you are trying to clone the entire card, CloneZilla is a good program

Yea everything on the card

Dave85 · 20 Feb 2023 at 00:46

Anyone bought one recently know the real estimate. Says 1 - 2 weeks just curious if they are getting them out faster.

Climhazzard · 20 Feb 2023 at 05:28

Dave85 said:
Anyone bought one recently know the real estimate. Says 1 - 2 weeks just curious if they are getting them out faster.

Bought mine just before Christmas and was delivered within 10days of ordering.

Ourphil · 20 Feb 2023 at 09:20

Dave85 said:
Anyone bought one recently know the real estimate. Says 1 - 2 weeks just curious if they are getting them out faster.

I ordered one on the 15th, it was shipped on the 16th and is due to be delivered today.

bigmike20vt · 20 Feb 2023 at 10:24

Hi
Has anyone here got Diablo 3 as well as diablo 2 remastered working on the deck? i just picked up the discounted bundle on the Blizzard store for £16

if so do the controls map ok?

thanks

Dave85 · 20 Feb 2023 at 10:53

Excellent cheers for the shipping update.

Schizophonic · 20 Feb 2023 at 14:59

I got mine in 5 working day, pritty quick. Just dont always take the shipping update for granted as it sometimes have failed to update.
I got mine from Parcel force, they can send an email on the morning to arrive.

wunkley · 20 Feb 2023 at 17:45

I've just done the new Cryobyte33 tunings...

CryoUtilities 2.0 - MASSIVE Performance Boosts & Space Savings! | Steam Deck

Hey everyone!Today is a big day, I've uploaded a MASSIVE update to CryoUtilities with a ton of new features for performance and saving storage space!Huge sho...

www.youtube.com

Was using the old version with no ill effects so worth a go at the update as there are some new tweaks, especially around memory management and stuff which may help mitigate stutters etc.
If you're not familiar with this guy he seems to know his onions and all the tweaks are backed up with extensive evidence based performance tests and graphs.

ralv585 · 20 Feb 2023 at 21:32

wunkley said:
I've just done the new Cryobyte33 tunings...

CryoUtilities 2.0 - MASSIVE Performance Boosts & Space Savings! | Steam Deck

Hey everyone!Today is a big day, I've uploaded a MASSIVE update to CryoUtilities with a ton of new features for performance and saving storage space!Huge sho...

www.youtube.com

Was using the old version with no ill effects so worth a go at the update as there are some new tweaks, especially around memory management and stuff which may help mitigate stutters etc.
If you're not familiar with this guy he seems to know his onions and all the tweaks are backed up with extensive evidence based performance tests and graphs.

I updated this morning, but it wasn't really clear what his recommendations were around compaction proactiveness and huge page defragmentation?

What settings have you gone for on those, as he says it's better to not have them, but under the recommended settings, they all default to on (green text)

I was getting huge lags and freezes in hogwarts after I turned them all on, but now I've disabled those two, but I'm still gettings freezes, where there wasn't before.

sniperone · 21 Feb 2023 at 14:30

So you can now transfer games over local network from your computer to steam deck . Anyone know of a good guide on how to do this as I can’t seem to find one anywhere

Orcvader · 21 Feb 2023 at 16:08

sniperone said:
So you can now transfer games over local network from your computer to steam deck . Anyone know of a good guide on how to do this as I can’t seem to find one anywhere

Only if you're on the beta client, it's not out on stable yet. Both Steam Deck and Steam on PC needs to be set to the beta channel.

EDIT: It's pretty seamless if both devices are already on: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46BD-6BA8-B012-CE43

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