There is a limit to how much a button that has a lid over it can blink. But it does not seem to be blinking now, and my laptop lid is closed. However . . (sarcastic drum-roll), I am unsure that laptop is sleeping. I could test that via battery drain. Actually: come to think of it, I wrote a script that reports upon sleeps. So . . the script reports that the computer was asleep. That is good. The reason I worried was that some days ago the lid had been closed for a long-ish time and suddently the fans started going loudly. (Since then, I’ve updated the Linux firmware. There’s no guarantee that that will have fixed the problem, though.)
EDIT: but the commonest problem-to-do-with-sleep that people report on this forum is, I think, not that the thing doesn’t sleep at all, but that it wakes up at the drop of a hat.
The side LEDs are for power indicators only it seems.
My understanding is that Windows does not update the Firmware. Given they wrecked everyone’s duel boot UEFI the other month when they tried, this is a good thing.
It’s safe to install the firmware upgrade. It’ll either upgrade or do nothing, either of which is OK
This link does not work on Chrome for some reason. I was able to download the .exe through Firefox, however I am unable to run it on my device (Framework 13 w/ the Ryzen 5 7640U). Windows throws an error saying “This app can’t run on your PC”.
I installed the Win11 partition after my normal Manjaro build though. I didn’t have any of these issues on my Manjaro install, so maybe that was the issue.
I wiped the drive and reinstalled Win11 alone and I’m still running into the same issues. Win11 complains that the driver bundle is from an “unknown publisher” and when I tell it to run anyway it says that “this app can’t run on your PC. To find a version for your PC, check with the software publisher.”
Before someone asks, I am using what Framework has marked for Win11 via the official link.
As far as I can see the file name should be: Framework_Laptop_13_and_16_AMD_Ryzen_7040_driver_bundle_W11_2024_10_02.exe
Size should be: 881,108,072 bytes
I think it’s most likely a problem with part of Cloudflare’s caches. The right person at Framework should be able to flush the Cloudflare cache to fix it, and also perhaps set Cloudflare not to cache for so long, so that any future problems will clear themselves in a reasonable time.
A workaround might be to use a VPN to download via somewhere quite far away from your real location, so that it comes from a different part of Cloudflare’s local caching.
There must be somebody who is paid to look after your website, and since they set it up to use Cloudflare they ought to be able to log in to the Cloudflare dashboard and flush the cache and/or change your cache rules.
