System Specs before starting:
Fedora 43
KDE Plasma
Wayland
i7-6700K
GeForce GTX 1660 super
32 GB memory (unsure if ddr3 or ddr4)
Hi! Recently I convinced my partner to make the switch to linux, specifically, Fedora. However, sometimes her computer will just completely freeze, and requires a hard reboot, I haven't gotten the chance to test if reisub works while it's frozen. Also, very, very rarely, it will come back to life, or show some signs of life; today, it froze, but I could still hear her over our call, and then it slowly advanced the display over the next couple minutes- as in the mouse was moving very slowly according to how she was moving her mouse when it froze- before stopping again and requiring a reboot.
I'm pretty sure this has been happening since day 1, fresh install, so I don't think it's anything we did/installed that broke things.
My gut tells me that it's an issue with her memory, but it seems like the majority of the time, it happens while using graphically intensive apps/games, but that's not always consistent. This leads me to think it's actually an nvidia issue, we've tried both the neuveau and proprietary drivers, but it happens on both.
Does anyone have any ideas about this?
You can try running any built in diagnostics or you could use memtest86+. It appears to work on UEFI systems.
https://www.memtest.org/
Probably is worth the piece of mind to let memtest86+ run for a few cycles overnight, so you can rule memory out. Memory issues are never fun. May also want to check out the BIOS and play with the XMP settings for memory, if you've got any. I had a bunch of weird freezing issues (though mostly related to sleep mode) that stopped once I set my memory to a different XMP profile
I second reviewing your XMP settings. I have seen instability with more aggressive profiles.