Gotcha. I’m also an engineer but tend to focus first on the issues that have the highest potential to be the problem. I’m not a hardware engineer though so it may just be a different mindset. But honestly this is such an easy check it would be good to test it regardless. So I did go back and test it but I didn’t see any change in behavior regardless if the monitor was plugged in or not.
I did however see a difference in behavior when the machine was opened vs closed in clamshell, running Windows vs Linux and when I switched out the SSD. I put a SK Hynix P31 and haven’t had issues yet. But it hasn’t been long enough I’ll keep running this for awhile with this CPU to see how it goes.
Yea this does seem to be potentially an issue. The drive may just be too hot in this laptop. I wonder how much testing the Framework guys did with this CPU and SSD combo. It’s rather disappointing but I suppose I can always through it into an enclosure or NAS.