I just received my laptop and the same thing is happening to me. It only happens during boot (once an os is loaded, even live ones, it goes away), and it happened before I even installed anything. I updated the BIOS to 3.03 and the kernel to 6.8.7 (using fedora 40) it still persist.
Edit: it doesn’t always happen, about half of the time
That is indeed surprising. Nevertheless, if I see screen flicker like this in bootloader and bios, I would suspect hardware, either broken or poorly connected. With a FW laptop this shouldn’t take too much time, right?
In other words, if it was my laptop, I would try it.
I’ve been talking to support trying to diagnose the issue. It doesn’t seem to be a hardware issue since once the laptop is booted it works perfectly and there is no hint of a flicker. From looking at a verbose boot the point where it’s resolved is when the amdgpu driver is loaded. Up until now I did many things and none of them resolved it for now:
Update to the latest BIOS and AMD drivers
Download the drivers from the AMD website
Reattach the display cable and look for issues
Opened the mainboard and reseat the RAM and SSD
Tried to boot without any expansion card
Resetted the BIOS
Reinstalled the OS multiple times, it happens even without one installed
The last step was sending support a bunch of logs, but this was yesterday so I don’t expect to hear anything until next week. I have to say that support was very responsive and through, even if we didn’t find the issue yet, it was a very nice experience.
One question if you don’t mind, are you using the RAM/SSD bought from framework or a third party one? Also, you don’t have a dGPU either, right?
Ok, I asked because I am using ram from Crucial and I was worried that was the issue (it’s on the supported list but still), but if you are using the one from framework it makes it less likely. I also have no dGPU.
And mine come and goes, sometimes it boots 5 times without issue and then others it happens every time.