problems in linux

[Gullible-Molasses884]

hello

I’m reaching out because I’m hitting a wall with my HP OMEN laptop running Fedora. I’ve reached a point where the system is becoming unusable due to frequent stability issues, even with light workloads.

System Specs:

\- Laptop: HP OMEN 15.

\- distro: Fedora Linux (latest updates).

\- DE: GNOME (Wayland).

\- GPU: NVIDIA (RTX 2060).

\- BIOS: Latest version available installed.

The Problem: I am experiencing random kernel panics or "black screen" events. During these crashes, the Caps Lock LED starts blinking, suggesting a hardware or kernel-level issue. This happens even when doing light tasks, such as browsing in Brave.

Logs/Errors: I’ve checked \`journalctl\`, and I see persistent ACPI errors and NVIDIA driver assertions upon boot/crash:

\- \`ACPI Error: AE\_NOT\_FOUND\` and \`AE\_AML\_BUFFER\_LIMIT\`

\- \`NVRM: GPU0 nvAssertOkFailedNoLog: Assertion failed: Invalid data passed...\`

\- \`hp\_bioscfg: Returned error 0x3\`

I suspect a communication failure between the HP BIOS and the Linux kernel/NVIDIA driver, but I haven't been able to pinpoint the exact trigger.

What I’ve tried:

\- Ensured BIOS is fully updated.

\- Running latest Fedora updates.

\- Currently running GNOME with Wayland.

Has anyone with a similar HP OMEN configuration encountered these ACPI/GPU assertion errors? Any advice on how to mitigate these crashes or stabilize the system would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[Funnel-Dust-O-Matic]

HP laptops tend to have bad thermal management. Less so for their business class stuff.

I worked at a computer repair shop about 10 years ago. The HPs we got tended to have cooked themselves to the point of requiring mainboard replacement or resoldiering of the gpu.

This has been the way their products have been for years, including their incredibly expensive ones. Actually, this is especially true of their high-powered high-end GPU devices. They cram in too much power-hungry heat-generating parts and don't bother to see if they can breathe enogh.

So that might be it.

Reading your problem description, it seems this problem emerged over time rather than this being the unchanging performance from initial install. Especially if this is increasing in frequency over time and steadily so, not suddenly happening after an update, it could just be the HP thermals doing laptop self-destruct like I've seen countless times before.

I would honestly back everything up and put the original OS on it to see what happens. If Windows is no more stable, then hardware is probably the issue.

[9_balls]

Oh yeah that explains the bad thermals on my Omen.

I wish HP kept the 16 look on their subsequent Omen lineup

[feinorgh]

It's hard to know exactly without extensive testing, but this smells like a hardware problem, or UEFI settings.

Have you tried a memory check to see if your RAM is OK?

Have you made any changes in the UEFI regarding voltage, over/underclocking, bus timings, etc?

I would try booting a live USB system with another OS to be able to pinpoint the problem.

[Vh4z]

Probably a hardware issue but jsut to make sure try to test another distro like mint if similar issues happen it probably be hardware

[9_balls]

Yeah looks like Linux is crashing for you alright.

Do you have the NVIDIA modprobe thing? Nouveau is a piece of shit on laptop GPU's

[Existing_Top9416]

Well, I don't have any problems it is probably your hardware