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Laptop freezing to blank screen
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First, make sure your laptop bios is up to date. Updating should be a simple matter of downloading the naked bios file, put it on a fat32 stick, boot into bios and use the built-in flasher.
You could set up a winToUSB drive to run the WD firmware update tool.
Or, you could go through this. https://community.frame.work/t/western-digital-drive-update-guide-without-windows-wd-dashboard/20616
Thanks for this, I managed to get the firmware updated to 624361WD; hopefully it fixes the issue.