LegionGo freezes after updating to latest version
Hello there, I'm gonna add some photos to make sure to help describing the issue.
I would like to point out that until the last update everything was working perfectly.I'm experiencing a forced reboot with a black screen and total freeze. It happens when I start games like Elden Ring or emulators so I assume it could be the heavy load. I go into desktop mode And what I see is a warning that my SSD is about to fail. (Photos below)Am I gonna be screwed soon or there is something not going well on the legion go software itself?
Edit: the error seems to be pretty explanatory, just wanna make sure there is not something wrong with hardware or if there is, preparing to buy another one SSD or handheld. Tdp is set on performance and fan to Auto manage
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Update: bios is NCN35WW and device crashes INSTANTLY after the Elden Ring loading bar finishes, not even the time to get into world actually. Device isn't hot AT ALL to the touch. Tried going back to NCN32WW but same issue. Fan is at full speed too. If there's something else I can try let me know
Update 2: switched from STAPM mode to STT same result. After "update one" post there is no more message appearing (like the one in photo)
I would suspect the drive overheating based on tha error but it coiuld be a false alarm
im weirded out too as I have the same device, legion go, latest update provides no problem
by any chance of troubleshooting, you opted into the beta or alpha of the operating system or?
because it's posible it's also a false reading but consider my unit doesnt have problems with the ssd i can't think of much aside from the basics
It just started few hours ago, message is no more appearing, I will check out later. For now I'm playing "sky child of light" everything is maxed out and LegionGo is Definitely hot now, like normally used to be, and everything is working good, tdp is performance and fan on auto
I suspect a false reading too cause just the moment I start the game, not that it appears after a while (that could be normal overheat)
Maybe SSD is gonna die soon who knows, I already bought a new one from Amazon 1TB so when this dies I'm gonna replace it btw
No beta or alpha, everything on stable, just updated bios from 35 back to 32 as Lenovo replaced the driver to the old one yesterday (played after it for a couple of hr and no problem whatsoever) and latest bazzite update from desktop mode. that's it
Could the driver be overheating From one day to the next? The room is the same and so the outside
I know it's nothing but maybe this could help
I'm new to Linux sorry, still learning
This is after rebooting right after the crash
-273yup the drive is severely misreading it's temps here but it still PASSES the SMART test which is weird
It's not a false alarm
The legion go SSD overheats
knew as such, the smart properties seem to be false here though
You will only see the warning after rebooting. After that it cools down and the smart test passes
No it's not
You can see on the smart info on the bottom parameters
That his SSD has spent around 1 hour completely overheating
Actually not completely, but semi thermal throttling
I thought the time unit here is in seconds?
Yes and an hour has 3600 seconds
a combined warning and critical is around 46 seconds so it's not pretty long but it can be dangerous to the ssd
You are confusing transition count with time
On a normal system both times should sum up to less than 200
no? I said 46 at
Warning comp. temp + Critical Comp Temp = 46
45 is the transition count 1
1 total time is 337 and 2 total time is 2168
I have gotten freezes before when the SSD overheats
yeah if we also count that that's not great
Surprisingly I've yet to get anything related to overheating ssd
Then after rebooting I get the smart warning for around 2 minutes
And the smart test says fail
which is why I suspect it's a unit thing
It's all legion gos
but it probably isn't
considering the drive is the same as well
And it's only getting worse in summer months
which as I said
The fan does not touch the SSD so the fan speed does not matter
Much
Cleaning the fan might help a bit
though I only used it frequently for around 5 days at most with mostly light workload (2d games)
no heat issues so far
though it does get warm to hot where the SoC is on the screen 😬
I used my SSD very heavily and I can tell you that it's very easy to overheat it if you're doing a lot of writes
Switching the charging speed to slow in the bios helped with the screen temp
true though when powered off the charge limit doesn't apply iirc unless the charge limit hardcodes the bios and it's my mistake
It's written to the bios
The charge limit always works
And syncs between bazzite and windoes
That's what I'm doing right now
Mine is set on slow by default
Yeah
I had changed it
Why it overheats when opening a heavy game, but when I open a game heavier than that, the legion gets definitely more hot and still don't crash?
Has to do with reading the drive
Btw I'm opening the backplate, let's see if something isn't good by hardware side
Try avoiding downloading games while gaming
I'm not doing it
Same as always, nothing new
I bought an SSD that's gonna arrive here in a few hr or so. I will update you guys after cleaning
After opening back
I did a little clean up on the fan
And put back the SSD shield a little bit stronger to the body
gl
Okay so
The bad boy is up running
i will note that legion go ssd swaps are hit and miss
with the stock ssd behaving better usually
Im leaving it charging right here in this spot with game open (yes the towel is just for when I was cleaning it) and see how it goes
Mine is the stock one. The shield was a bit loose maybe due to temp rising
i thought you swapped it now
Now it's the same SSD, haven't swapped for now
ok
Amazon is still arriving lmao
hopefully this helps
if it dies its only 512gb who cases, is how i think about it
I bought that SSD now
EXACT
in case youre wondering how real overheating looks
Ive also used 2% of the spare already
DAMN
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must be new, when i was looking for ssds last year it wasnt there
It's quite new, bought some thermal pads too just to be sure
Legion is still running btw, so I think i can consider the issue fixed for now. Thank you!
Solution to the issue (apparently):
-Open LegionGo backplate
-Carefully remove power cable
-Proceed cleaning fan with a toothbrush
-reseated SSD shield
-reassembly everything
-profit
yes repasting and backplates help
np
Okay it crashed again, no error, after playing Elden ring for a couple of hr. Tdp performance, fan auto speed.
Definitely SSD is gonna die, Amazon is arrived And thermal paste too. Gonna replace it tomorrow, not sure about clone it or reset and reinstall everything just to make sure
I ordered this too, just to make sure everything is ok
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Repasted and still crashes, gonna open another issue
seems like there is an issue
with autovram on the latest ver
switch to 4gb
Oh
yeah i learnt of it yesterday
Let me try it out
4gb VRAM in uma buffer right?
Is there issues with bazzite or latest bios? Cause I always use Auto VRAM and never had issues before updating bios
latest bios is ok
latest kernel broke autovram
unsure if it was reversed yet
6.10, which i think made it to bazzite 1-3 days ago
Oh that's why, I'm gonna switch to 4gb right now and test this out, in reporting in a few
i run 35 bios myself
Me too
it was reverted because it broke the power light button in legion space
Maybe not only power button
thats what i heard at least
Lenovo stated that a few days ago
Okay I switched let's test that
well the power light button works in bazzite now
so
Yes I personally don't have issues on bazzite even with latest bios except that
i fixed it what are you talking about
Except SSD problem I mean
oh yeah
Sorry English is not main language
Helldivers is open and no crashes
Damn that AutoVram
if that kernel ver is not yanked yet it will be soon
until the issue is resolved
Thank you for the help
I will wait for a fix announcement then, for now I'm gonna stick with 4gb
It's smooth as butter right now btw
yeah i heard it also fixed vrr
Oh nice
4gb VRAM Elden ring runs so bad sadly
Tried 6gb and it's a lil bit better. Maybe I should try less than 4?
I'd advise to use the FSR 3 mod for elden ring btw
I will check it out, this issue is making almost every game in my library unplayable
I'm just sorry I'm so new to Linux that I don't know how I can help in any way, you guys are truly the best community I've been a part of and I would really like to be as helpful as possible. Let me know if I can do something to help