Framework Laptop 16 Ryzen 7040 BIOS 3.05 Release

Framework Laptop 16
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Yup, disable safe boot and its good to go.

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Iā€™m 3.05 since Beta and noticed that periodically and suddenly at random times my computer slows down dramatically, i.e. imagine normal function of everything but at 200MHz instead of >2GHz - mouse movements are laggy, video starts chopping.
Iā€™m on Fedora 41 KDE. I thought it was GPU originally but there are no errors in the logs at all related to the GPU. The only error I could find in the last slowdown that happened was:

kwin_libinput: Libinput: event4  - PIXA3854:00 093A:0274 Touchpad: client bug: event processing lagging behind by 247ms, your system is too slow

Anybody experienced anything like this?

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Iā€™ve had that happen once. CPU wouldnā€™t go above 500MHz on any core (noticed it being laggy then confirmed via /proc/cpuinfo). For me what fixed it was unplugging and then replugging the charging cable.
Hasnā€™t happened since, even on the same charger (I was/am using the 70W(?) or so Apple MacBook brick I got laying around)

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I have seen it also on my FW16, but not often.
I have not tracked down the source but I have not discounted the following yet:

  1. IRQ storm. Maybe some GPE interrupt being kicked off unnecessarily.
  2. USB storm. I.e. one device on the USB bus that is preventing others from working. This might be one of the chips on the mainboard misbehaving, so not necessarily an external device. I donā€™t know which.
  3. All CPUs kept at 500Mhz.
  4. Some bug on the EC somehow affecting performance.
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That exact problem, at least when caused by disconnecting TB docks, is one of the fixes in this BIOS release.

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For me this problem appeared only after installing this BIOS patch and never before. My problem also started at random, not associated with TB dock disconnect.

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I had that happen once pre 3.05. Unplugging and then plugging in the charger seemed to fix it. Iā€™m using Windows 11 Pro though. And itā€™s never been a reproducible behavior.

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Cross-posting here.

Canā€™t roll back to 3.04 to testā€¦ but it seems that the dGPU is having some issues when the 240w power supply is being used.

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I updated the GitHub issue this morning, the issue is present while running the system in performance mode while connected to the 240W charger.

I switched my system to balanced and it seems to give a more normal power usage.

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Another thing I started noticing thatā€™s definitely new as of 3.0.5: Often after a wake from hibernate, the USB-C PD sensors (via Linux sensors / lm-sensors) all report 0 V / 0 A, even if a power adapter is plugged in and the laptop reports being charged (and the LED next to the port is on).
Unplugging and plugging it back in makes the Voltage / Current show up correctly.
Not sure if this is connected in any way to the other power issues people have been seeing, and just a minor symptom of it?

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Flaky usb issue continue (ports 3,6 with usb A modules)

Charging through dock with the pd 3.1 chargers remains fixed.