Hi,
My laptop recently started freezing randomly - it usually freezes after a few minutes, sometimes after 2, other times 10 minutes.
So far I kind of ruled out software problems, as the problem persists on live booted Linux, installed Windows and also while installing Windows. My first thought was that it was overheating, so I checked the temps and they are fine, as You can see on the screenshot, never the less I opened it up and reapplied LM on both cores, also using some more thermal putty on the VRM, obviously didn't help.
While live booting Linux it usually freezes somewhere on the GPU init, but not always - sometimes freezes before that, sometimes during driver init - when screen goes blank and doesn't come back on, sometimes it goes past that and still freezes later. I did some tests in Windows and the driver installs and there are no visual artifacts, Furmark screenshot confirms that, don't mind the low power usage, I used a USB-C charger, behaviour is the same on the original charger. While digging around I found that the early models of this laptop had a bad VBIOS flashed, but this one already had the newest one flashed, at least from what I could find in the TechPowerUp database.
What's weird is that memtest runs perfectly, as You can see it ran fine for over 3 hours when I stopped it. If that matters I swapped an AX210 in it half a year ago and it ran perfectly until last week.
Any ideas what could be wrong with it?
My laptop recently started freezing randomly - it usually freezes after a few minutes, sometimes after 2, other times 10 minutes.
So far I kind of ruled out software problems, as the problem persists on live booted Linux, installed Windows and also while installing Windows. My first thought was that it was overheating, so I checked the temps and they are fine, as You can see on the screenshot, never the less I opened it up and reapplied LM on both cores, also using some more thermal putty on the VRM, obviously didn't help.
While live booting Linux it usually freezes somewhere on the GPU init, but not always - sometimes freezes before that, sometimes during driver init - when screen goes blank and doesn't come back on, sometimes it goes past that and still freezes later. I did some tests in Windows and the driver installs and there are no visual artifacts, Furmark screenshot confirms that, don't mind the low power usage, I used a USB-C charger, behaviour is the same on the original charger. While digging around I found that the early models of this laptop had a bad VBIOS flashed, but this one already had the newest one flashed, at least from what I could find in the TechPowerUp database.
What's weird is that memtest runs perfectly, as You can see it ran fine for over 3 hours when I stopped it. If that matters I swapped an AX210 in it half a year ago and it ran perfectly until last week.
Any ideas what could be wrong with it?
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