Boot up problem

I will Email a few friends.
See if they can help.

 

What operating system are you using? How old is the ssd drive?

 

Weird. Here are some helpful links to hopefully get you back on track.
How to fix White Screen of Death on Windows 10


How to get rid of White Screen of Death on Windows 10?

Top 6 Ways to Fix White Screen of Death on Windows 10

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...d-freeze/75887a37-52e2-4cbb-9df0-74eff995a78c

 

Good stuff. Happy to hear it's fixed.

 

We do daily backups to our file server which is all mechanical drives. SSD's only last for so long. Our plans for SSD's is to swap them with new after the 5 year warranty is up. Mechanical drives as soon as bad sectors start to develop. One drive I retired had close to 75,000 hours on it with no issues. I made that drive as our reserve for just incase.

 

I know right? You would think they'll last forever. The amount of writing they do. You'll be surprised on how much writing it does when you are using your PC. It's a lot.

 

So glad it is all sorted.

 

I do the same. Scheduled backups with rsync on a dedicated pc with an old style platter hd.

 

I have a compatible Olivetti pc from 1987 with a 20 Mb hard drive. As of today it has a grand total of 1 bad sector. Still runs windows 2.0

 

After one and a half year battling with weird problems I finally whipped out the bread for a new, large, top of the line SSD. It solved all the freezes, reboots, and a lot of weird things occurring to my master machine. If you still have troubles, go for the best of the best because these new drives seem to have a limited tolerance for mediocrity and cutting corners. And buy large ones cause their life strategy is coping with dead cells by using reserve space, so get it huge no less than 500 G and from the top tier of producers.
It is still unclear to me what exactly occurred. You made a reboot from the login screen and that was he end of troubles ? I'd think troubles are just waiting to come back with a revenge.
S.M.A.R.T. is your friend

 

I have an extra SSD laying around. My PC is dual boot with Windows 10 and Windows 11. I'm debating if I want to mirror the Windows 11 installation to the SSD. Windows 10 is on an SSD and Windows 11 is on a mechanical drive.

 

SSDs are way faster. I keep the system on ssd and the bulk of data on a large platter drive. You can afford losing program data but not your personal files so I'd advise for putting systems on the ssd and data on the mechanical drive. this way you have a blazing fast system and the disk holding your precious info gets little use anyway not being under pressure for normal system operation, eventually swap file/partition r/w, (not that it gets much use today now that everyone has at last 16 Gb of ram anyway) but for goodness' sake do regularly backup the sensible info on another drive, better if it is an entirely different PC dong just that. This way you will get the best of the two worlds also because SSD space is costlier than HD space.
SSD will croak. It is a given. It is predictable. HDD will too but in my experience they give out more signs of failure before kicking the bucket. More than once HDDs went bad on me but the SMART daemon noticed me of impending failure so I had the chance to back up data before they surrendered their beautiful spinning soul back to the Big sector in the sky. Disks don't drain a lot of power so three drives shouldn't be an issue for the power supply. Hope this helps.

 

My blooming problem is that GBoard every so often types a doubled-up letter or entire phrase when I'm using voice-to-text.

This is especially nonsensical when you're translating into Russian or any of the other languages that do not use the latin alphabet - it's a bitch to try and find out what was transcribed correctly, or if everything is now scrambled... So, you basically have to start over from the beginning - well, beginning of the sentence anyway.

More of a nuisance that... not really a problem. I think I reported the bug, but nothing yet fixed.