09-11-2021 08:19 PM
12-10-2021 04:33 AM
12-10-2021 02:06 PM
12-15-2021 05:50 PM
samipietila wrote:
After the BIOS (316) upgrade, the laptop worked fine about 5 days, but then a shutdown/reboot occurred. However, I am running on Ubuntu 21.10 Linux.
12-16-2021 01:01 PM
Blake@ROG wrote:
Hi samipietila,
Can you describe more?
Which program are you using when the reboot happened? in games?
Thank you.
12-16-2021 07:36 PM
samipietila wrote:
I think I have not used any particular program when the reboots have occurred. Once I was browsing web with the Chrome browser when the reboot occurred and one time I was using spreadsheet (Libreoffice). I don't think my laptop has ever rebooted in games, but I haven't played games that much.
Have there been any windows patches related to this problem? What do they exactly do? Could it be that Linux is missing some of the needed patches? If so, can Asus provide details for Linux developers what kind of patching is needed?
Once, after a random reboot I did look at kernel messages and saw these messages with included errors. Perhaps this is related to what is going on?
[ 15.809037] [drm] free PSP TMR buffer
[ 16.121709] [drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x0000008000000000).
[ 16.121729] [drm] PSP is resuming...
[ 16.153821] [drm] reserve 0xa00000 from 0x82fe000000 for PSP TMR
[ 16.253273] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: RAS: optional ras ta ucode is not
available
[ 16.268898] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: SECUREDISPLAY: securedisplay ta
ucode is not available
[ 16.268902] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: SMU is resuming...
[ 19.519967] audit: type=1326 audit(1639494466.472:89): auid=1000 uid=1000
gid=1000 ses=2 subj=snap.snap-store.ubuntu-software pid=1816 comm="pool-
org.gnome." exe="/snap/snap-store/558/usr/bin/snap-store" sig=0
arch=c000003e syscall=93 compat=0 ip=0x7fd422bc74fb code=0x50000
[ 20.963115] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: Failed to setup smc hw!
[ 20.963121] [drm:amdgpu_device_ip_resume_phase2 [amdgpu]] *ERROR* resume
of IP blockfailed -62
[ 20.963191] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: amdgpu_device_ip_resume failed
(-62).
12-17-2021 10:03 AM
Blake@ROG wrote:
Hi there,
Can you try to update VBIOS 86018 ? but you might need to install it under Windows OS.
https://rog.asus.com/laptops/rog-strix/2021-rog-strix-g15-advantage-edition-series/helpdesk_download
Let us know if you still experience reboot after this update.
Thank you.
12-19-2021 09:57 PM
samipietila wrote:
Hi,
Do you mean this package: AMD_VBIOS_86018_9011_G513QY_G713QY? It is labeled as hotfix in Asus download page?
How to use this utility?
Installer.exe does not seem to do anything and running amdvbflash.exe gives "can not load driver".
Here I opened cmd as administrator and typed following commands:
C:\Users\sampi\Downloads\AMD_VBIOS_86018_9011_G513QY_G713QY>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CA86-A90F
Directory of C:\Users\sampi\Downloads\AMD_VBIOS_86018_9011_G513QY_G713QY
17/12/2021 17.25.
17/12/2021 17.49..
17/12/2021 17.25 2 905 832 Installer.exe
17/12/2021 17.25packages
1 File(s) 2 905 832 bytes
3 Dir(s) 854 349 959 168 bytes free
C:\Users\sampi\Downloads\AMD_VBIOS_86018_9011_G513QY_G713QY>cd packages
C:\Users\sampi\Downloads\AMD_VBIOS_86018_9011_G513QY_G713QY\packages>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is CA86-A90F
Directory of C:\Users\sampi\Downloads\AMD_VBIOS_86018_9011_G513QY_G713QY\packages
17/12/2021 17.25.
17/12/2021 17.25..
17/12/2021 17.25 10 186 AmdTools.cat
17/12/2021 17.25 2 408 amdtools.inf
17/12/2021 17.25 53 608 amdtools.sys
17/12/2021 17.25 63 392 AmdTools64.sys
17/12/2021 17.25 488 304 amdvbflash.exe
17/12/2021 17.25 720 896 BRT86018.001
17/12/2021 17.25 282 configs.txt
17/12/2021 17.25 65 536 devcon64.exe
17/12/2021 17.25 239 472 ULPSCtrl.dll
9 File(s) 1 644 084 bytes
2 Dir(s) 854 349 946 880 bytes free
C:\Users\sampi\Downloads\AMD_VBIOS_86018_9011_G513QY_G713QY\packages>amdvbflash.exe --help
cannot load driver
12-23-2021 01:29 PM
Blake@ROG wrote:
Hi samipietila,
The new VBIOS installer has been released.
Please kindly update the VBIOS and let me know if you still experience reboot.
Thank you.
12-28-2021 05:19 AM
samipietila wrote:
Hi,
The new installer works. vBIOS reports now amdgpu: ATOM BIOS: SWBRT86018.001.
Unfortunately, I just experienced a reboot with the new vBIOS.