I have been trying for weeks to figure out why my system locks up solid running Linux while playing games. I’ve tested on Ubuntu 18.04 w updated kernel, Ubuntu 18.10 default kernel, and I’m on Antergos now on the latest kernel 4.20.1
PC specs
i7 4770
ASRock extreme 3
16 gb of gskill ddr3 memory
Samsung 850 evo 500gb SSD
RX 580
Seasonic 650 power supply.
Roughly after 5-30 minutes playing any game the system freezes solid, then after a minute or so it reboots. Pretty sure it’s kernel panicking but I can’t seem to get any logs as to what’s happening. I’ve even tried to output journald to tty2 and using ttylog to view it live as it crashes but that yeilds no information.
This PC works 100% fine on Windows. I’m really not sure what to do even after all the suggestions on the Arch wiki.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: On 4.20.8-arch1-1-ARCH kernel on Antergos
This has been added as kernel parameters to grub
Would it be possible for you to ssh into the machine? Then use the script utility to record the session and outputs it to a file. That way you can get it started and then run it in the back ground, after the crash, you read the log and it should reveal something.
Hmm, well if the kernel locks up it aint gonna dump any logs either… so there’s a tell-tail for you i guess.
No overclocking or nothing? I’d run a quick memcheck next, or let it run overnight.
Edit: had a similar issue years ago ; linux paniced but windows worked. Iirc a ucode update fixed it.
Hmm, well if the kernel locks up it aint gonna dump any logs either… so there’s a tell-tail for you i guess.
No overclocking or nothing? I’d run a quick memcheck next, or let it run overnight. Edit: had a similar issue years ago ; linux paniced but windows worked. Iirc a ucode update fixed it.
Yeah I ran memtest86 for an entire day and no errors =\
I know this might be a bit obvious, but have you checked CPU temperatures?
I have had a rash of friends/family reporting the same thing just recently with the heat wave we have been having in Australia. Even with properly setup water cooling they are just not up to the task.
Sorry for the late reply, been really busy with work etc the last few days. So I decided to do a stress test on my CPU/memory and within 5 minutes I was hitting the TJ max of 100c on my i7 4770 and the system locked up. So i think it might be a faulty cpu cooler. Its the original Intel heat sink that I got when i purchased this CPU back in 2014 so its time for a new one. I ordered a Cooler master hyper 212 evo for it and will retest once thats installed.
If you add the cpufreq gnome extension you can use it to quickly set the governor to performance when you play a game so you can keep turbo boost on for power/heat savings.