[Trismegisto] [VWS03] Cooling fan replaced

 Due to high temps and horrible noise, I have replaced the cooling fans in both Skull Canyon NUCs.

[Melchoir]

 Melchoir frozen with all monitors in standby but the machine is still running.

The description for Event ID 153 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event: 

\Device\0000007c

Reset TDR occurred on GPUID:1100

The message resource is present but the message was not found in the message table

Current display driver is 581.29 installed on 12/11/2025

Attempting reinstall of same driver.

[Patizithes] Boot Issue

 Booted into black screen after several days offline.

 Initiated boot repair via USB boot

 boot-repair-4ppa2075                                              [20251229_0816]

============================= Boot Repair Summary ==============================





modprobe: FATAL: Module efivars not found in directory /lib/modules/6.14.0-29-generic

Recommended repair: ____________________________________________________________

The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility will reinstall the grub-efi of
nvme0n1p2,
using the following options:  nvme0n1p1/boot/efi
Additional repair will be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s use-standard-efi-file


Mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 on /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2/boot/efi

Unhide GRUB boot menu in nvme0n1p2/etc/default/grub

=================== Reinstall the grub-efi of /dev/nvme0n1p2 ===================

chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 grub-install --version
grub-install (GRUB) 2.06-2ubuntu7.2
modprobe: FATAL: Module efivars not found in directory /lib/modules/6.14.0-29-generic
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 modprobe efivars

chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 efibootmgr -v before grub install
EFI variables are not supported on this system.


chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 uname -r
6.14.0-29-generic

chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --target=x86_64-efi
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: warning: EFI variables cannot be set on this system.
grub-install: warning: You will have to complete the GRUB setup manually.
Installation finished. No error reported.
df /dev/nvme0n1p1
mv /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bkpbootx64.efi
cp /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2/boot/efi/efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi

chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --target=x86_64-efi
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: warning: EFI variables cannot be set on this system.
grub-install: warning: You will have to complete the GRUB setup manually.
Installation finished. No error reported.

chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 efibootmgr -v after grub install
EFI variables are not supported on this system.

Warning: NVram is locked (Linuxmint not found in efibootmgr).

chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2 update-grub
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/50_linuxmint.cfg'
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/init-select.cfg'
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-164-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-164-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-130-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-130-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-91-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-91-generic
The ZFS modules are not loaded.
Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them.
Some pools couldn't be imported and will be ignored:
The ZFS modules are not loaded.
Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them.
The ZFS modules are not loaded.
Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them.
The ZFS modules are not loaded.
Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1.  Check your device.map.

Unhide GRUB boot menu in nvme0n1p2/boot/grub/grub.cfg

Boot successfully repaired.

Locked-NVram detected. Please do not forget to make your UEFI firmware boot on the Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia (21.3) entry (nvme0n1p1/efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi file) !


============================ Boot Info After Repair ============================

 => No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/nvme0n1.

nvme0n1p1: _____________________________________________________________________

    File system:       vfat
    Boot sector type:  FAT32
    Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
    Operating System:  
    Boot files:        /efi/BOOT/bkpbootx64.efi /efi/BOOT/bootx64.efi 
                       /efi/BOOT/fbx64.efi /efi/BOOT/mmx64.efi 
                       /efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/mmx64.efi 
                       /efi/ubuntu/shimx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg

nvme0n1p2: _____________________________________________________________________

    File system:       ext4
    Boot sector type:  -
    Boot sector info: 
    Operating System:  Linux Mint 21.3
    Boot files:        /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /etc/default/grub

sda: ___________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       iso9660
    Boot sector type:  Unknown
    Boot sector info: 
    Mounting failed:   mount: /mnt/BootInfo/FD/sda: /dev/sda already mounted or mount point busy.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.


================================ 1 OS detected =================================

OS#1:   Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia (21.3) on nvme0n1p2

================================ Host/Hardware =================================

CPU architecture: 64-bit
Video: Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
Live-session OS is Linuxmint 64-bit (Linux Mint 22.2, zara, x86_64)

===================================== UEFI =====================================

BIOS/UEFI firmware: 5.19(5.19) from American Megatrends International, LLC.
The firmware is EFI-compatible, and is set in EFI-mode for this live-session.
SecureBoot disabled (confirmed by mokutil).
BootCurrent: 0003
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0002,0003,0004,0000
Boot0000  Windows Boot Manager    VenHw(99e275e7-75a0-4b37-a2e6-c5385e6c00cb)57494e444f5753000100000088000000780000004200430044004f0042004a004500430054003d007b00390064006500610038003600320063002d0035006300640064002d0034006500370030002d0061006300630031002d006600330032006200330034003400640034003700390035007d00000061000100000010000000040000007fff0400
      dp: 01 04 14 00 e7 75 e2 99 a0 75 37 4b a2 e6 c5 38 5e 6c 00 cb / 7f ff 04 00
    data: 57 49 4e 44 4f 57 53 00 01 00 00 00 88 00 00 00 78 00 00 00 42 00 43 00 44 00 4f 00 42 00 4a 00 45 00 43 00 54 00 3d 00 7b 00 39 00 64 00 65 00 61 00 38 00 36 00 32 00 63 00 2d 00 35 00 63 00 64 00 64 00 2d 00 34 00 65 00 37 00 30 00 2d 00 61 00 63 00 63 00 31 00 2d 00 66 00 33 00 32 00 62 00 33 00 34 00 34 00 64 00 34 00 37 00 39 00 35 00 7d 00 00 00 61 00 01 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00
Boot0002* ubuntu    HD(1,GPT,de407c15-1ad9-4a73-baa3-590ed9f02c98,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\UBUNTU\SHIMX64.EFI)
      dp: 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 15 7c 40 de d9 1a 73 4a ba a3 59 0e d9 f0 2c 98 02 02 / 04 04 34 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 55 00 42 00 55 00 4e 00 54 00 55 00 5c 00 53 00 48 00 49 00 4d 00 58 00 36 00 34 00 2e 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
Boot0003* UEFI: SanDisk    PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x3)/USB(1,0)/USB(2,0)/CDROM(1,0x2104,0xa000)0000424f
      dp: 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 / 01 01 06 00 01 08 / 01 01 06 00 03 00 / 03 05 06 00 01 00 / 03 05 06 00 02 00 / 04 02 18 00 01 00 00 00 04 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
    data: 00 00 42 4f
Boot0004* UEFI: SanDisk, Partition 2    PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x3)/USB(1,0)/USB(2,0)/HD(2,MBR,0xd94bd83b,0x2104,0x2800)0000424f
      dp: 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 / 01 01 06 00 01 08 / 01 01 06 00 03 00 / 03 05 06 00 01 00 / 03 05 06 00 02 00 / 04 01 2a 00 02 00 00 00 04 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 3b d8 4b d9 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 / 7f ff 04 00
    data: 00 00 42 4f

07e25dcaf57c776875f78fa36827c58e   nvme0n1p1/BOOT/bkpbootx64.efi
07e25dcaf57c776875f78fa36827c58e   nvme0n1p1/BOOT/bootx64.efi
1d43d986c265d8c455d020e4a1f28c52   nvme0n1p1/BOOT/fbx64.efi
1d260ff1255f189ab621209796ee2fed   nvme0n1p1/BOOT/mmx64.efi
1535d97a530fe1aa6f0d87717547d309   nvme0n1p1/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
1d260ff1255f189ab621209796ee2fed   nvme0n1p1/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
07e25dcaf57c776875f78fa36827c58e   nvme0n1p1/ubuntu/shimx64.efi

============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================

Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________

nvme0n1    : is-GPT,    no-BIOSboot,    has---ESP,     not-usb,    not-mmc, has-os,    no-wind,    2048 sectors * 512 bytes

Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________

nvme0n1p1    : no-os,    64, nopakmgr,    no-docgrub,    nogrub,    nogrubinstall,    no-grubenv,    noupdategrub,    not-far
nvme0n1p2    : is-os,    64, apt-get,    signed grub-pc grub-efi ,    grub2,    grub-install,    grubenv-ok,    update-grub,    end-after-100GB

Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________

nvme0n1p1    : is---ESP,    part-has-no-fstab,    no-nt,    no-winload,    no-recov-nor-hid,    no-bmgr,    notwinboot
nvme0n1p2    : isnotESP,    fstab-has-goodEFI,    no-nt,    no-winload,    no-recov-nor-hid,    no-bmgr,    notwinboot

Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________

nvme0n1p1    : not--sepboot,    no---boot,    part-has-no-fstab,    not-sep-usr,    no---usr,    part-has-no-fstab,    no--grub.d,    nvme0n1
nvme0n1p2    : not--sepboot,    with-boot,    fstab-without-boot,    not-sep-usr,    with--usr,    fstab-without-usr,    std-grub.d,    nvme0n1

fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________

Disk nvme0n1: 476.94 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors
Disk identifier: 58402A87-7E10-480F-879C-5FBD6EA6FB9B
           Start        End   Sectors   Size Type
nvme0n1p1    2048    1050623   1048576   512M EFI System
nvme0n1p2 1050624 1000214527 999163904 476.4G Linux filesystem
Disk sda: 7.45 GiB, 8004304896 bytes, 15633408 sectors
Disk identifier: 0xd94bd83b
     Boot   Start      End Sectors  Size Id Type
sda1  *         64  5967263 5967200  2.8G  0 Empty
sda2          8452    18691   10240    5M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
sda3       5967872 15633407 9665536  4.6G 83 Linux

parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________

sda:8004MB:scsi:512:512:unknown:SanDisk Cruzer:;
nvme0n1:512GB:nvme:512:512:gpt:ESO512GYLCT-EP3-2L:;
1:1049kB:538MB:537MB:fat32:EFI System Partition:boot, esp;
2:538MB:512GB:512GB:ext4::;

blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________

NAME        FSTYPE   UUID                                 PARTUUID                             LABEL                           PARTLABEL
sda         iso9660  2025-08-28-08-52-38-00                                                    Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon 64-bit 
├─sda1      iso9660  2025-08-28-08-52-38-00               d94bd83b-01                          Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon 64-bit 
├─sda2      vfat     68B0-18D6                            d94bd83b-02                                                          
└─sda3      ext4     24b03f62-5501-436b-b598-25455941ebb5 d94bd83b-03                          writable                        
nvme0n1                                                                                                                        
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat     2DE8-74E5                            de407c15-1ad9-4a73-baa3-590ed9f02c98                                 EFI System Partition
└─nvme0n1p2 ext4     c7f638fb-fb13-4df2-89ee-26e0c5bc5ec3 e6d472d5-6a61-4dcb-8d48-de3230be68d5                                 

Mount points (filtered): _______________________________________________________

                                                             Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p1                                                504M   1% /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p1
/dev/nvme0n1p2                                              166.4G  59% /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p2
/dev/sda1                                                        0 100% /cdrom
efivarfs                                                    108.9K  11% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

Mount options (filtered): ______________________________________________________

/dev/nvme0n1p1                                              vfat            rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro
/dev/nvme0n1p2                                              ext4            rw,relatime
/dev/sda1                                                   iso9660         ro,noatime,nojoliet,check=s,map=n,blocksize=2048,iocharset=utf8

=================== nvme0n1p1/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg (filtered) ===================

search.fs_uuid c7f638fb-fb13-4df2-89ee-26e0c5bc5ec3 root 
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg

=================== nvme0n1p2/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ====================

Ubuntu   c7f638fb-fb13-4df2-89ee-26e0c5bc5ec3
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###

======================== nvme0n1p2/etc/fstab (filtered) ========================

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/nvme0n1p2 during installation
UUID=c7f638fb-fb13-4df2-89ee-26e0c5bc5ec3 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
UUID=2DE8-74E5  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
/swapfile                                 none            swap    sw              0       0

==================== nvme0n1p2/etc/default/grub (filtered) =====================

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

================= nvme0n1p2: Location of files loaded by Grub ==================

           GiB - GB             File                                 Fragment(s)
            ?? = ??             boot/grub/grub.cfg                             1
 397.511886597 = 426.825138176  boot/vmlinuz                                   2
 363.261882782 = 390.049476608  boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-130-generic                2
 397.511886597 = 426.825138176  boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-164-generic                2
 233.121166229 = 250.311946240  boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-91-generic                 1
 363.261882782 = 390.049476608  boot/vmlinuz.old                               2
 416.500972748 = 447.214514176  boot/initrd.img                                9
 218.475448608 = 234.586226688  boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-130-generic             9
 416.500972748 = 447.214514176  boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-164-generic             9
 252.750972748 = 271.389290496  boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-91-generic              8
 218.475448608 = 234.586226688  boot/initrd.img.old                            9

=================== nvme0n1p2: ls -l /etc/grub.d/ (filtered) ===================

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18683 Dec 18  2022 10_linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43031 Dec 18  2022 10_linux_zfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14387 Dec 18  2022 20_linux_xen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13369 Dec 18  2022 30_os-prober
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1372 Dec 18  2022 30_uefi-firmware
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   700 May 17  2023 35_fwupd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   214 Dec 18  2022 40_custom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   215 Dec 18  2022 41_custom

[Melchior second 1050TI not working]

 Only the first 1050TI is working. The second states and error in windows device manager

1. Downgrading to Nvidia Studio Driver 581.29

[Melchoir] dxgkrnl.sys BSOD

 dxgkrnl.sys BSOD. Running VLC on all four monitors.

1. Upgrading Nvidia drivers from 461.72 to 581.57

[BARDIS] Astroneer not loading.

 Tried chkdsk, sfc, restart.

Upgrading from Nvidia Drivers 546.01 to 566.14

[Bardis] BSOD Driver state power failure