Greetings from East Vic Park! 1. Have you cleaned out the system? Start of summer i have to vacuum the dust bunnies to prevent overheating. 2. Check the power supply 3. Add a few more fans :)
BillK On 14 March 2022 12:55:07 am AWST, Andrew Lowe <[email protected]> wrote: >Dear all, > Back story, I'm in Perth Australia, hence summer has just finished. >Summer here means long runs of about 40ºC during the day and nights of >about 35ºC at midnight. > > 12 months ago, I started getting a dialogue popup that said: > >******** > >KWin Window Manager >Desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset > >******** > >This would pop up, particularly when doing "deep research" with Firefox >on Youtube. Firefox would freeze for a few seconds, but the audio would >continue, the screen would do a refresh/flash sort of thing and on goes >the "research". As the day would progress, and the home office would >heat up, 35ºC during the day, these popups would pop up more and more >and the machine would nearly become unusable. > > It was also accompanied by the following in dmesg: > >******** >... >... >[ 1473.478242] NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:0a:00: >GPU-810c3175-ac6b-0de3-ff85-dce410a501dc >[ 1473.478246] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID >00000020 intr0 00040000 >[ 1473.478530] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID >00000020 intr0 00040000 >[ 1480.030284] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID >00000020 intr0 00040000 >[ 1480.030618] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID >00000020 intr0 00040000 >[ 2093.087760] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID >00000020 intr0 00040000 >[ 2093.088145] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID >00000020 intr0 00040000 >[ 2126.588242] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0a:00): 32, pid=3087, Channel ID >00000020 intr0 00040000 >... >... > >******** > >This started last summer and then as things cooled down, occurred less >and eventually disappeared, winter time. This summer it's back and even >worse so I upgraded from an nVidia 1060 to a 3050 - the thinking being >the card was over heating. As you guessed the problem is still here. > > I've found the xid errors page on nVidia's site but was wondering if >anyone else had come across this error and has any advice? > > Thanks in advance for any thoughts, > > Andrew > > > > -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

