last night, i experienced something really weird, my PC would start to freeze at random, mostly trying to play a YT video… first i thought it was just my kernel being buggy, cuz im not running exactly the most recommended version.
So i rebooted to Win 10… which, to my surprice, also managed to go completelly BSOD from watching a youtube video, twice, with different errors.
So i booted into linux again and watched for system logs for errors (in “dmesg”) and it would start throwing random USB related errors and whatnot, which was really weird, because i did not plug anything new / weird into USB and this setup worked just fine for months if not years…
Also since it was doing in both systems (i have dualboot), i started to suspect motherboard, since it was on repair once, like a month after i got it (probably just cold contact somewhere)…
As a last decision before ordering a new one, i updated bios, from F10 to F31… all USB related errors/warnings gone… and system stayed stable. This morning at work, my Windows VM got “AMD” update, so i suspect they did roll out some microcode update, which is incompatible with older bios (at least on my board)…
Also i did CPU / RAM / GPU stress test, it was running just fine and i did not touch its clocks in like forever and everything was set as it should be
long story short:
Board: Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K5
Bios before: F10 (unstable)
Bios after: F31 (stable)
Issue: “brainfreezes” in Linux; BSODs in Windows
If this is the case and its on more boards, kinda pisses me off, imagine some newbie trying to figure thit out…