My PC has been temperamental lately

[Maurice]

I’m so grateful for your help
I’ll leave it as is for now then

[phillpower2]

No problem, fingers crossed for you and we will be here tomorrow (y)

[phillpower2]

Any update for us Maurice?

[Maurice]

So far seems like only my SSD was damaged cause the pc doesn’t detect it always, hit or miss I shall say
If the pc detects the SSD windows boots till it freezes and when it does so the SSD won’t be detected so I’ma pickup a new SSD in 4 days and see where it goes from there

[Maurice]

The bummer part is, I thought I’d use my Gpd win 2 for now but turned out it’s battery isn’t holding a charge anymore

[phillpower2]

That sounds to me like the SSD may have been faulty from the outset, this could explain your previous issues + a lightening strike does not single out a single device and normally blows the power supply which in turn fries the rest of the hardware.

Try the steps below for getting into the Windows recovery environment and let us know if you have access to another computer and a USB thumbdrive that you can download Linux to.

See if you are able to force the computer to start in the Windows Recovery Environment (RE) by starting up and shutting down the computer two or three times using the case power button, please note that you need to shut down the computer after the MBs splash screen and just before Windows attempts to load, if successful you should then continue to the Troubleshooting options and then hopefully be able to use Reset this PC, a system restore point or Safe Mode etc.

[Maurice]

I’ll give that a shot in 5 hours, i’m still at work
I do have a laptop that’s still working (thank God lol)
Also I think you’re right about the SSD being faulty from the outset cause a few weeks ago when I reinstalled windows it gave me an error about being unable to install Windows on the SSD and I had to format it using CMD that comes with the installation files so I’d be able to install Windows on it

[phillpower2]

Also I think you’re right about the SSD being faulty from the outset cause a few weeks ago when I reinstalled windows it gave me an error about being unable to install Windows on the SSD and I had to format it using CMD that comes with the installation files so I’d be able to install Windows on it

You could have done with mentioning the above in your first post tbh

[Maurice]

I’m sorry :l
I didn’t think twice about it since it was my first time reinstalling windows on it ever
My bad

[phillpower2]

No problem, the odd thing is that the SSD looked ok in Speccy but your HDD has a SMART warning so needs to be checked at some point.

[Maurice]

Could it be an iffy motherboard? Causing the issues?
My PC didn’t freeze when I had the old motherboard
I bought this one off eBay and the seller said it’s new but it came in a plain white box, not the retail box

[phillpower2]

Hard to say with 100% certainty but being honest I think that it is unlikely, as long as you did a clean install of Windows, the MBs chipset and SATA drivers there is nothing that would affect only the SSD.

[Maurice]

Alright, so do I do the recovery trick and reset windows or wait til I get the new SSD?

[phillpower2]

You have nothing to lose by trying the Windows recovery environment but it will only help if the problem is with Windows and not if the SSD is failing.

as long as you did a clean install of Windows, the MBs chipset and SATA drivers

Did you do the above when you had to swap the MBs.

[Maurice]

Alright and nope, I swapped the motherboard before the fresh install since it’s the same motherboard I just had to reactivate my windows.
The freezing started after swapped the motherboard