32-bit Debian boots, runs great. It'll run for days on Debian.
Minimal system: mobo has PCIe cards pulled off. Just ssd, ram, keyboard, and display.
Any other OS, or even 64-bit Debian, starts to boot, then reboots the laptop just as the drivers load. It's not a specific driver that causes the reboot: sometimes one, sometimes another, but it is guaranteed to reboot before all the drivers are loaded. DRAM swap doesn't change it. CPU swap doesn't change it. And, I don't have a donor nVidia board.
BIOS doesn't provide for disabling SpeedStep.
No liquid damage. No heat issues. Swapped the 220uf tantalums because capacitors are evil and I have 4 whole tubes of these things. Plus my flux bottle was overfull.
The behavior implies a speedstep issue. I have confirmed that the 32-bit Debian does not enable SpeedStep by default. But that sounds like an unacceptably deep rabbit hole.
Ideas? Which capacitor causes this flakey behavior? Cuz it's always a cap.
Minimal system: mobo has PCIe cards pulled off. Just ssd, ram, keyboard, and display.
Any other OS, or even 64-bit Debian, starts to boot, then reboots the laptop just as the drivers load. It's not a specific driver that causes the reboot: sometimes one, sometimes another, but it is guaranteed to reboot before all the drivers are loaded. DRAM swap doesn't change it. CPU swap doesn't change it. And, I don't have a donor nVidia board.
BIOS doesn't provide for disabling SpeedStep.
No liquid damage. No heat issues. Swapped the 220uf tantalums because capacitors are evil and I have 4 whole tubes of these things. Plus my flux bottle was overfull.
The behavior implies a speedstep issue. I have confirmed that the 32-bit Debian does not enable SpeedStep by default. But that sounds like an unacceptably deep rabbit hole.
Ideas? Which capacitor causes this flakey behavior? Cuz it's always a cap.
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