Razer blade 2022, 14" PI480 wont boot to OS, freezes

[theplop]

Razer blade 2022, 14" PI480, Ryzen 6900HX, 16gb ram

I picked up a Razer blade 14" (2022) from a friend who said it "overheated" and he replaced one of the fans. He gave up on it as windows wouldn't work/re-install. He gave it to me, and i've been working on getting linux on it. Installing Mint i was able to get about 1/4 through the installer before it froze. Now i can't even get the installer to boot. I am met with a kernel panic.... sometimes. Sometimes it just hangs on the boot sequence.

I've run memtest quite a few times, and more often then not i will get a PASS. Sometimes it will fail right away, and other time it will be 19 hours with no fails.

Since memory is soldered on, i can't really pull modules. I have tried pulling the NVME and wifi/bt card. This doesnt seem to change anything. Cold or warmed up, doesnt change anything.

I also did a full teardown, and didnt see anything burned, or bad traces, etc.


I just finished a 26 hour memetest, and its still as a "PASS"


Would love any ideas or input moving forward.

Thanks,

[pc_okay]

Hello,

You have your response, memory is most probably the culprit.
If you don’t know how to replace onboard ram, take your laptop to a competent Repair shop.
If you have stuff and skill it’s not a Big deal to replace it.

good luck!

[theplop]

>If you don't know how to replace onboard ram, take your laptop to a competent Repair shop.

Lol, i mean, fair enough. Granted this memory is soldered to the mainboard. As good as i am with soldering, i dont feel proficient enough to do BGA re-balling on memory modules.

Sounds like i have one of two choices

-scrap/sell
-pay to have repaired.