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SpinningDisc

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Registered: 2023-08-06

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Asus N53SV Locks Up in Intensive Tasks + Screen Glitching

I uninstalled Linux Mint in favor Arch and so far so good, except for intensive tasks such as compiling Emacs or playing Doom 2 (1994) with a lot of mods. The screen begins to (for lack of a better word) corrupt and everything except the power button stops working. I think it's worth noting that the little lock icon with an A on the laptop begins begins to flash its light on and off.

I installed pipewire and pipewire-pulse, the nvidia-390 proprietary drivers (the latest this Laptop supports) and picom for Vsync. I also have Windows installed on the machine and it handles these same tasks flawlessly, same went for Mint when I still had it a couple days ago.

Here is the output of journal -b -1: https://0x0.st/H_XO.txt

If you see mentions of Doomseeker or Zandronum, that is the software I'm using to play Doom 2 with a friend.

ewaller

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Re: Asus N53SV Locks Up in Intensive Tasks + Screen Glitching

The flashing keyboard light is indicative of a kernel panic.  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel#Kernel_panics

When performing intensive tasks, what are your processor core temperatures doing?

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SpinningDisc

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Re: Asus N53SV Locks Up in Intensive Tasks + Screen Glitching

Sorry for the late response. My temperatures got pretty high before all of this, but after setting iommu=soft in the kernel parameters they calmed down, the panic still happened though.

I've since installed linux-headers and got my nvidia drivers actually working, alongside thermald. I have done said intensive tasks and all seems good. I'm hesitant to mark this as solved though.