2950x random gui crashes and reboot on Fedora and Manjaro

[Methylzero]

Please see my PSAs regarding issues I have encountered on AM4 Ryzen. I do not have any experience with TR, but maybe they are useful.

PSA: testing for and solving random freezes on Ryzen

So I have ran into some random freezing issues, when setting up a Ryzen 1700X system for server-like (headless, unattended, ECC RAM, no OC) 24/7/365 operation. Not good at all. I have written a small stress testing utility that can reproduce this issue quite reliably in less than 48 hours. It consists a copy of the Intel Linpack benchmark utility,…

PSA: The ASM1061 SATA controller on the x370 Taichi is probably garbage

On the X370 Taichi you have 10 SATA ports, 8 is presumably provided by the X470 chipset, and the remaining 2 by an ASMedia ASM1061 SATA controller. The 8 native ports seem to work fine, but the ASM1061 might be a complete heap of garbage. Still investigating, but the controller seems to randomly lock up or glitch out when under sustained heavy loa…

PSA: ASPM causes PCI-E bus errors under heavy SATA load on AM4

If you have an AM4 system and you are seeing errors in your kernel logs like this after an extended period of heavy SATA load : kernel: [323826.023666] pcieport 0000:00:03.2: AER: Multiple Corrected error received: id=0000 kernel: [323826.023680] pcieport 0000:00:03.2: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Data Link Layer, id=001a(Transmitter …