I’ve been using Hassio for a few weeks now and everything was fine.
Today, the history wouldn’t load, so I restarted it (using the Configuration page on the web interface).
For some reason it won’t boot up. I can’t even ping it, if I plug a monitor in, nothing but black.
If I take the microsd card out and stick in the in th PC is there anyway to find out what’s wrong and fix it?
Can you get to the configuration files using Samba?
May be a bad configuration that stops the loading.
If you put it in a PC you need to find configuration.yaml, comment out any recent additions to the file and try to reboot the RPi.
If you have a recent snap shot try to use that.
I also copy all config files to a directory on my PC before I make any major changes. Also I occasionally make a copy of the image on the SD card for backup.
Also if things change on the web page I run a configuration check before restart / reboot of the system. It may tell you about impending doom that you can fix before it happens.
Thanks for the reply.
There weren’t any changes before I rebooted it. It’s not even starting an operating system (which is why I can’t even ping it) so it’s not getting as far as loading Home Assistant.
Sounds like the SD card is dead to me.
It’s not the first time this has happened. It seems to be quite frequent and has happened with two memory cards (although they are the same type).
If I reflash with the image it all works fine and carries on. Is there anyway to just do some sort of disk check?
What type of cards are you using?
Toshiba Exceria 64Gb U1 M302
I know someone said they were also having trouble with high capacity cards. I’m using the 32gb noobs one from RS components. I think the consensus seems to be to use the Samsung EVO cards.
I already had to replace two of those. 
LOL!! What size were they? What type of cards do you use? I also have a Sandisk but I seem to see bad things about them mostly in these forums as well.
What is the recommendation?
It’s funny as I was originally running the all-in-one version with Raspbian Jesse and never saw any lockups. However, with the 61.1 of hassio I haven’t had any lockups either.
Would be nice if there were some specific recommendations. Could also be power supply related but at least in my case I am using the Pi supplied official supply for the RPi3 and I don’t have anything else plugged in except ethernet cable.
Two Samsung EVOs, 32GB. So exactly the ones you are referring to. But I guess it really depends on the setup. I’m now using an external MariaDB database, so there’s a lot less load now on the SD. Seems to be working ok now.