laptop LogonUI.exe error

[The123qwe]

I have an Asus FX505D, bought 3 months ago (new), Windows 10 (x64) auto update is on but I do not know the exact version. I have a 256GB SSD for storage and a single, 16GB RAM stick.

Problem: My problem was, that out of nowhere, OneNote threw up a memory error message, asking me to restart. When I did, I was faced with the win10 login screen loaded (corner buttons, date, time, login background) and an error message. Along with this, a BIOS screen (American Megatrends) pops up every boot saying: M.2 PCIE SSD SMART status Bad, Backup and Replace F1 to continue (boots to OS when F1 is pressed)

 

Troubleshoot attempts:

• tried booting up into safe mode (Shift + Restart): the screen froze till I pressed ‘Ok’ on the error message, but nothing else happened.
• since its an SSD, shift + F8 / F8 won't work
• tried entering winRE by force restarting (pressing the power button when windows was booting up), didn’t go once into that mode (10-12 tries, 3-5 times consecutively)
• tried checking things in BIOS (laptop restarted on its own once, booted into bios with no boot options recognized)
• tried using Asus recovery mode, nothing there worked, when pressed any button, screen started bugging out
• Unscrewed the back of the laptop, removed SSD and put it back in, same with RAM

Current status: Laptop turns on, displays that BIOS error. After pressing F1, loads into OS with an error message that cannot be dismissed. All buttons are clickable on the login screen but bugs out upon input till the error message is clicked again. Powers off without issue.

 

Thoughts: So basically I think my SSD is done for, which wouldn’t be great. But is an SSD failure really this common 3 months in? Also if the SSD is fucked, why does it even boot into windows and display the logonui.exe error? Maybe thats the only broken thing? Then why did the SSD just completely disconnect at one point? But this whole thing a little bizarre to me.

 

Plans of action:

• Try to boot into windows using an USB stick and try the loginui.exe solutions found online (graphics card drivers, commands, and some Middle African voodoo magic suggested to me by tree toads) from there. However, none of these described SSD failure.
• Replace the SSD. Would be quite painful after 3 months...
• Take it to a repairshop / use the warranty. However this would mean serious downtimes.

What do you guys think?

[Zurgeg]

Sounds like a dead SSD to me, try replacing it.

[The123qwe]

4 minutes ago, Zurgeg said:

Sounds like a dead SSD to me, try replacing it.

Yeah sounds like thats the case unfortunately. Do you recon data can still be saved from it? Since it does actually boot into the OS & does display the login screen

[Zurgeg]

Dunno

Use Windows PE and try to save your data