Random system freeze on PN51-E1

If I may ask, which Intel NUC did you go with? I understand no issues at all with that Intel NUC? I am considering buying one myself so that's why I am asking.
I went with the Intel NUC 12 Pro Kit - NUC12WSHi5. And yes, no issues so far - Proxmox is running smoothly with this machine. Same memory sticks and SSD drives which I used in the PN51-E1..
 
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Thank you for your reply, I think I will go with that NUC as well then. I like the "running smoothly" part!
 
Hey guys, I have the same issue with my asus PN51-E1. I do own a PN50 and it works flawlessly. I don't believe it's a software issue as I have tried different OS mainly linux based on both my PN50 and PN51-E1. But no luck with my PN51-E1 it run will for some times and then crashes. Has anybody tried to reach out to Asus support? I'm seeing similar issues in other forums as well.
 
Hey guys, I have the same issue with my asus PN51-E1. I do own a PN50 and it works flawlessly. I don't believe it's a software issue as I have tried different OS mainly linux based on both my PN50 and PN51-E1. But no luck with my PN51-E1 it run will for some times and then crashes. Has anybody tried to reach out to Asus support? I'm seeing similar issues in other forums as well.
I tried that, didn't work.

Sent my unit back to the ASUS repair center, and tell them the device suffres from unexpected freezes when running Linux.
After a month of waiting, the result is inconclusive.
ASUS said that they can't replica the issue, and it passes all the tests under Windows environment.
 
I've got the same issue on my Morefine S500+ (same CPU family, AMD 5900HX). It freezes using Proxmox, but not when running Ubuntu 23.10.
 
WIth my system i have also freeze problems.
I mitigated them by using the watchdog. Since my system is a headless server, with the watchdog it does reboot automatically.

On the Asus website I found a new BIOS version. Just installed it. Hopefully it helps.

PN51-E1 BIOS V0508
Version 0508
6.7 MB
2023/12/12
1. Optimized power setting to improve system stability.


After the update the cpuidle driver was shown. Before it was saying there is none available.
CPUidle-Treiber: none

Bash:
sudo cpupower -c all idle-info
CPUidle-Treiber: acpi_idle
CPUidle-Regler: menu
CPU 0 wird analysiert:

Anzahl der Ruhezustände: 4
Verfügbare Ruhezustände: POLL C1 C2 C3
POLL:
Merker/Beschreibung: CPUIDLE CORE POLL IDLE
Latenz: 0
Aufruf: 854
Dauer: 27846
C1:
Merker/Beschreibung: ACPI FFH MWAIT 0x0
Latenz: 1
Aufruf: 8509
Dauer: 606498
C2:
Merker/Beschreibung: ACPI IOPORT 0x414
Latenz: 18
Aufruf: 5723
Dauer: 2252344
C3:
Merker/Beschreibung: ACPI IOPORT 0x415
Latenz: 350
Aufruf: 8769
Dauer: 115199355

My best uptime with this issue is 11days and 10h.
So far the system is running for 26 days, 18:54:52 after the bios update. Hopefully this will solve the freezes.


getting close to the top. Some of the higher uptimes where reached before with load on the system like video encoding. For the actual run there was no heavy load on the system. I'm getting hope that this issue is really fixed.
Bash:
uprecords
     #               Uptime | System                                     Boot up
----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
->   1    26 days, 18:54:52 | Linux 6.1.0-17-amd64      Sun Jan 14 22:36:35 2024
     2    11 days, 10:22:37 | Linux 6.1.0-11-amd64      Fri Sep  1 08:15:35 2023
     3     8 days, 09:26:35 | Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64       Tue Jul  4 05:03:58 2023
     4     8 days, 00:01:40 | Linux 6.1.0-15-amd64      Tue Dec 12 21:05:17 2023
     5     7 days, 12:01:14 | Linux 6.1.0-0.deb11.7-am  Wed May 24 16:48:46 2023
     6     6 days, 11:44:54 | Linux 6.1.0-11-amd64      Mon Aug 21 19:39:15 2023
     7     5 days, 23:01:41 | Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64      Thu Nov  2 07:55:32 2023
     8     5 days, 20:08:50 | Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64      Wed Jul 12 15:25:14 2023
     9     5 days, 00:01:40 | Linux 6.1.0-12-amd64      Wed Sep 27 08:03:26 2023
    10     4 days, 16:01:40 | Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64      Thu Aug 10 15:30:08 2023
----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
NewRec    15 days, 08:32:14 | since                     Fri Jan 26 08:59:13 2024
    up   266 days, 12:40:20 | since                     Sat May 13 06:53:21 2023
  down     6 days, 22:57:46 | since                     Sat May 13 06:53:21 2023
   %up               97.456 | since                     Sat May 13 06:53:21 2023

update: I considered this bug fixed. my server is running and running. There are no special cmd line params for the kernel in place.
 
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WIth my system i have also freeze problems.
I mitigated them by using the watchdog. Since my system is a headless server, with the watchdog it does reboot automatically.

On the Asus website I found a new BIOS version. Just installed it. Hopefully it helps.




After the update the cpuidle driver was shown. Before it was saying there is none available.


Bash:
sudo cpupower -c all idle-info
CPUidle-Treiber: acpi_idle
CPUidle-Regler: menu
CPU 0 wird analysiert:

Anzahl der Ruhezustände: 4
Verfügbare Ruhezustände: POLL C1 C2 C3
POLL:
Merker/Beschreibung: CPUIDLE CORE POLL IDLE
Latenz: 0
Aufruf: 854
Dauer: 27846
C1:
Merker/Beschreibung: ACPI FFH MWAIT 0x0
Latenz: 1
Aufruf: 8509
Dauer: 606498
C2:
Merker/Beschreibung: ACPI IOPORT 0x414
Latenz: 18
Aufruf: 5723
Dauer: 2252344
C3:
Merker/Beschreibung: ACPI IOPORT 0x415
Latenz: 350
Aufruf: 8769
Dauer: 115199355

My best uptime with this issue is 11days and 10h.
So far the system is running for 12 days, 18:44:18 after the bios update. Hopefully this will solve the freezes.


getting close to the top. Some of the higher uptimes where reached before with load on the system like video encoding. For the actual run there was no heavy load on the system. I'm getting hope that this issue is really fixed.
Bash:
uprecords
     #               Uptime | System                                     Boot up
----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
->   1    12 days, 18:44:18 | Linux 6.1.0-17-amd64      Sun Jan 14 22:36:35 2024
     2    11 days, 10:22:37 | Linux 6.1.0-11-amd64      Fri Sep  1 08:15:35 2023
     3     8 days, 09:26:35 | Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64       Tue Jul  4 05:03:58 2023
     4     8 days, 00:01:40 | Linux 6.1.0-15-amd64      Tue Dec 12 21:05:17 2023
     5     7 days, 12:01:14 | Linux 6.1.0-0.deb11.7-am  Wed May 24 16:48:46 2023
     6     6 days, 11:44:54 | Linux 6.1.0-11-amd64      Mon Aug 21 19:39:15 2023
     7     5 days, 23:01:41 | Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64      Thu Nov  2 07:55:32 2023
     8     5 days, 20:08:50 | Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64      Wed Jul 12 15:25:14 2023
     9     5 days, 00:01:40 | Linux 6.1.0-12-amd64      Wed Sep 27 08:03:26 2023
    10     4 days, 16:01:40 | Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64      Thu Aug 10 15:30:08 2023
----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
NewRec     1 day , 08:21:40 | since                     Fri Jan 26 08:59:13 2024
    up   252 days, 12:29:46 | since                     Sat May 13 06:53:21 2023
  down     6 days, 22:57:46 | since                     Sat May 13 06:53:21 2023
   %up               97.319 | since                     Sat May 13 06:53:21 2023
Wow, this looks promising
Will try switching back to proxmox this weekend.





--- Update 02/19/2024 ---
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Also managed to get an 11-day uptime without encountering any random system freeze.
Looks like the BIOS update really did something to improve the situation.
 
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@cpc0307 Is it still running?

Did just remembered this thread the other day, and figured I will test the same, after a year or something with the PN51-E1 on the shelf collecting dust. Did a new install (and updated to the newest bios) and it have been running for the last 24h, and no freeze yet :-D
 
@cpc0307 Is it still running?

Did just remembered this thread the other day, and figured I will test the same, after a year or something with the PN51-E1 on the shelf collecting dust. Did a new install (and updated to the newest bios) and it have been running for the last 24h, and no freeze yet :-D
Yes, I got it running after the BIOS update in January, and it has been running without any freezes.
That was until I decided to swap it for an Minisforum MS-01 in mid-July.
 

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