The thing is it's very intermittent. It can happen twice in an hour, then not for a week.Can you test with a live distro??? Just to exclude a HW issue
I gave the box a dust and I'll see what happens next. I don't really have time to play with it and it does look very nice (way nicer than nouveau). I also realised I'd set firefox back to use hardware acceleration, and I suspect that was at the root of the most recent crash, which may have just been firefox sitting on the system like a giant 300 ton elephant. I'm ~fairly~ sure there's a lot less fan activity with the nVidia driver, but it wasn't reporting any overheating with nouveau...
Also, I was going to try onboard graphics, but the BIOS is set to use the nVidia PCI slot as first display. It doesn't seem to have an 'auto' setting and when I pulled the nVidia card, there were no graphics from the board, which has DVI and VGA out. (I don't currently have a second screen to test both at once.)
I was going to switch over to onboard graphics, then saw something online saying for that I'd need to enable 'compatibility mode' (CSM). It was for a different Gigabyte BIOS and seems odd, but I don't want to be stuck with no graphics at all. Is there a way to reset the BIOS to defaults, btw?
Anyway, if you know anything about these Gigabyte UEFIs I'll update here with some details.
Statistics: Posted by bitrat — 2024-04-16 05:17
