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by Joel_Mckay 704 days ago
People use special x-ray machines to inspect the BGA solder bonds to the PCB underneath chips. These chips may also be additionally glued down to the PCB on higher end equipment (impossible to visually inspect.)

Note BGA chips were never initially intended to be larger than 20mm wide, and can still put enormous shear forces on the contact bonds as the solder solidifies post re-flow (and the bimetallic cantilever PCBs form start to pop-back.) A certain percentage of products will thus fail when they warm up as the PCB will locally heat/warp the area again, and foobar a few random connections in the process. A low-heat paint-stripper heat-blower might be able to replicate the crash to eliminate this theory, and you might be able to RMA the board/chips if you are still under warrantee.

Could indeed also just be software as some suspect, but that is a lot harder to find in kernel drivers.

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No, it's not a solder/BGA issue because RAM/CPU/GPU stress benchmarks would cause some instabilities but that's never the case. The instability only manifests when running video decode tasks(watching youtube) in the browser and browsing websites in paralel, meaning it's 99% sure a iGPU driver issue.
Have you tried h264ify and blocked 60fps video?

Might be interesting if the bug is codec dependent, as YT can stress some browsers configs (software codecs etc.)

Does it do this with the windows 11 driver set as well? =)