System Freezes randomly

Although I might be talking to myself here is another update:

My system is running stable now for 9 days without any freeze.

The changes I did:

remove the following boot parameters:

  • amd_iommu=on
  • iommu=pt

Reason I had set them were severe problems with horizontal glitches/flickering lines six month+ ago.
These problems went away after setting the boot parameters so I left them in until now. As the problems did not appear again after removing, the underlying problem seems to be solved.

I added the following boot parameter:

  • amdgpu.noretry=0

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-APU-noretry

In addition I reset BIOS to default settings and explicitly disabled IOMMU afterwards (switch from AUTO to DISABLED).

Not sure if the BIOS reset is required.

Fingers crossed that the system remains stable.

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