Well, didn’t have an issue under KDE Neon (Ubuntu stable 24.04 and latest plasma desktop stuff on top of it). No issues so far - except still the AMD bug when booting while connected to a Dock. The external screen will only work if I disconnect, wait 5 secs, and reconnect.
But I had that issue with the old releases too.
Its the same with windows, during a “Reboot” i can stay connected, but a full shutdown and restart needs the Dock/eGPU to be disconnected and reconnected.
@Gu_tally I did check back, now back on 23H2 my USB4 eGPU is much more stable.
But to mention the Bios 3.05 introduced my instability with 24H2
Actually, a BIOS solely initializes the hardware for the OS to take over. After that, it’s the OS’s job to handle the hardware. So IMHO driver issue here that does not take care of the parts causing the instability.
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This is the first I’m hearing of this charger, so thanks for sharing! That said, it seems like a lot has happened in the four days since yours wasn’t on backorder… lol.
Here’s the link for anyone curious.
I ordered on digikey and it was not on backorder. And Digikey says there are 110 Units orderable from the Manufacturer 
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I guess it depends which country you are in. Apparently the 240w adapter cannot be sold in some countries yet. I.e. not Germany.
I am from Germany and bought it on digikey.de it was 4 days from buying and shipped from the Us to my Doorstep. But thats not Part of that Thread here. There is a Thread about the 240w Wall Adapter.
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I noticed another Bug since 3.05 i didn’t notized earlier as i am using an eGPU normally.
I can not utilize my 240W charger anymore with the Device standalone.
I can run the System on best Performance with the Framework 180w Charger and the GPU is pulling about 100w and the System is slowly discharging.
When i plugin the 240w one the all System Wattage should be 145w as AMD Smartshift reports, but its hovering below 100W so the GPU is jumping between 30w and 69w depending on the CPU util and its really jumpy. When i switch to Best Battery Mode the GPU is getting alot more Juice as the CPU is throttled.
It doesn’t depend on the OS i tested with Bazzite and Windows.
Edit:
I did a Battery Disconnect and let the System sit overnight. Did a Reboot and now its working with the 240w charger. I have no Clue, maybe its not related to the Bios, that this happened. Did the EC get an Update through the Bios Update?
It’s a subtle thing, but I think it might help your understanding of this behavior. My understanding is that when Windows “shuts down” and the turns back on, it’s not actually a fresh session and there is some data/state that is retained from the previous boot. I do not believe this applies to the “restart” functionality, which performs a clean shutdown and boot without retaining that state data (whatever it is).
The Problem persisted even after i freshly installed bazzite OS on another Partition. I wanted to crosscheck my Windows Install I even did reset my Bios nothing. I observed the Behaviour for Days. Than i wrote my Post yesterday. And it just vanished overnight after, as i said, I did the battery disconnect and reinitialization with a Charger. Completly wierd. I did suspect the Bios or the EC but couldn’t figure it out, i even read the EC Code for the Charger, Battery and GPU Config. Just wild. There are hidden STT and Smartshift Settings in the Bios but they are overwritten by the EC as i tempered with them during my Fault Analyzes.
Ah, I see. My apologies, I did not read the full context.
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Also noticed that my system is blinking with some error code on this BIOS. Looks like the 6th light is red which points to a touchpad detection error. Touchpad works fine however.
We have decided to move this release to stable, and have updated the known issues.
Thanks to all!
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Neat! I’m still on 3.03 and don’t have a lot of time to debug issues, so I’ve been waiting for a stable release to update. I’ll give this one a shot! However, could someone elaborate on this issue:
I had not seen this one mentioned yet. Is this related to any particular OS? Excessive drain regardless of usage or only under load? Just wondering what to look out for as my usage varies so widely, I don’t have a good baseline for battery life so I might not know if I were experiencing this or not after upgrading.
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Can confirm that this fixes the issue with > 100w chargers with a third party dock. Thank you!
Will update if the occasional issue with flaky usb has also been solved.