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Transferring SSD from LCD to OLED Dual Boot - My Experience (self.steamdeck)

submitted 7 months ago by Russianranger to c/[email protected]

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Wanted to post my experience so far for others that are in the same niche as me, as I didn’t find much on it looking around.

Prior to moving my SSD to OLED, I made sure I was current on updates with SteamOS, specifically I was in the Beta branch.
I also made sure to download the new APU/SD card drivers on my windows partition. Someone managed to find a wifi driver that works for Windows here - https://oemdrivers.com/network-qualcomm-qcnfa765
Haven’t found a working Bluetooth driver yet for windows, so be forewarned on that
After the above, I just plucked out the SSD from the LCD over to the LE OLED model - as others have mentioned, be careful of the ribbon cable. I managed to bend back the protective plate enough to get at the screw holding the SSD in place, it was easier getting out than putting back in, but after about 5 minutes of carefully keeping the protective plate peeled back and making sure SSD was properly seated, was able to get screw back in
After initial boot with my 2tb SSD, selected the SteamOS boot, got into it, immediately ran another update, restart, and boot straight back to SteamOS.
I use Clover as my boot manager, so went into desktop mode and ran the tool, made sure to re-enable the efi partitions again and changed the theme.
Restart now brings me to the boot manager, selected my Windows 10 partition
On boot, it was oriented in portrait mode (sideways), super easy fix by changing back to landscape
Ran APU, SD card, WiFi drivers, everything with those are more operational
Windows still missing audio and Bluetooth drivers, but is otherwise functional

Figured to post this to make sure others know what to expect, overall much easier than I thought it was going to be.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Since wifi card between LCD and OLED is different. Is this necessary to remove old wifi driver from LCD version?

[–] Russianranger 1 points 7 months ago

So I did not remove the old one, although I’m sure it’s probably best practice to remove it. But in my case, having it still lingering in the background hasn’t negatively affected anything to my immediate knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Very nice thank you.

How did you install clover and configured it in the first place?

I was able to install it, but I had to select it during the boot every time using power and volume plus buttons method.

[–] Russianranger 2 points 7 months ago

I never had the issue you had, I just followed the read me for installation;

https://github.com/ryanrudolfoba/SteamDeck-Clover-dualboot