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Well my Ubuntu has been stable for 3 days straight! That's far longer that it has been before so I think the issue has been solved, Disabling CStates did it! I'm going go go ahead and mark the solution. @CaptainRye I really appreciate the help. After tons of time and money being super frustrated and lost with how to figure this out you came in and solved my issue in a day. I can't thank you enough.

I do have the latest Ubuntu patches and Kernel. I'll give disabling Cstates a shot and do some more googling on that error code.

Okay I'll give that a try to get more accurate logs next time I have a power crash. Here is another error I have found in the logs: 9 May 20 19:07:37 Ubuntu kernel: [ 317.028952] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged 17500 May 20 19:07:37 Ubuntu kernel: [ 317.028955] [Hardware Error]: Corrected error, no action required. 17501 May 20 19:07:37 Ubuntu kernel: [ 317.028961] [Hardware Error]: CPU:0 (17:71:0) MC25_STATUS[-|CE|MiscV|-|-|-|-|CECC|-|-|-]: 0x98004000003e0000 17502 May 20 19:07:37 Ubuntu kernel: [ 317.028964] [Hardware Error]: IPID: 0x000100ff03830400 17503 May 20 19:07:37 Ubuntu kernel: [ 317.028966] [Hardware Error]: Platform Security Processor Ext. Error Code: 62 17504 May 20 19:07:37 Ubuntu kernel: [ 317.028967] [Hardware Error]: cache level: RESV, tx: INSN And lastly here is my /etc/fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> # / was on /dev/nvme1n1p5 during installation UUID=db48e6b0-c5a6-4efe-ae0d-7f9d2d2f47e5 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme1n1p1 during installation UUID=E8B1-5646 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1 # /home was on /dev/sdb1 during installation UUID=e525a565-6644-4c9f-9dbd-8ec493f4e01b /home ext4 defaults 0 2 /swapfile none swap sw 0 0 /swapfile none swap sw 0 0 /swapfile none swap sw 0 0

I had the same thought, maybe something wrong with my house and I'd need an electrician. I've tried multiple outlets though, and it's also running through a UPS so if the power in the wall fails the computer should run through the UPS battery. Still haven't completely ruled this one out though. There are some errors here for today, but I really have no idea which of them (if any) would be the problem. Failed to initiate AP scan. JavaScript error: https://www.nzxt.com/products/kraken-x72, line 18: ReferenceError: fbq is not defined /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-fstab-generator failed with exit status 1. [ 503.781642] systemd-fstab-generator[12307]: Failed to create unit file /run/systemd/generator/swapfile.swap, as it already exists. Duplicate entry in /etc/fstab? There are more, the logs are pretty huge. Not really sure what I should look for.

Hello, I'm having a crazy issue that I can't seem to fix and I'm at my wit's end here. Hopefully ya'll can help me out. I have a Computer with a dual-boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 installation. About once per day, sometimes back to back, and sometimes skipping a day, the computer will instantly lose power as if there was a power outage. No OS crash, nothing, just the power gone and then it reboots. The weird thing is I have so far only observed this behavior on Ubuntu. I have ran Windows only for about 2 weeks and it was fine. The next day I logged onto Ubuntu to do some coding, and it was fine for about 6 hours, then lost power at the end of the day. I am not confident this behavior only happens on Ubuntu, but I have yet to see it lose power on Windows 10. I have tried: Resetting my CMOS and running factory defaults. Tried multiple BIOS versions, including the most recent release for my motherboard. Changing my Power Supply to a brand new one. Running the Computer through a UPS. Fresh installing both Windows 10 AND Ubuntu. I've taken the computer into a repair shop. They ran it for 10 days and couldn't replicate the issue. Could this be a Linux software problem? Does anybody here have the knowledge to help my look through the logs and see if something is going wrong there? Is my motherboard dying? I've already spent tons of time, effort, and money trying to diagnose this and I haven't had any luck, it's still happening at least once per day and is greatly impeding my from getting work done. My Specs: Dual Boot Ubuntu/Windows 10 running on Corsair MP600 Ryzen 9 3900x Asus Crosshair VIII Heri (Wi-fi) on BIOS version 3501 Beta G.Skill Trident 2x16Gb @ 3600Mhz on XMP Profile Nvidia RTX 3080 - MSI Gaming X Trio -------- Seasonic Focus PX 850 Watt Platinum - and also tried: Seasonic Prime 1000W Titanium -------- All this has been running through a Cyberpower CP1500O 1500VA UPS. I have also tried running it through the wall outlet directly. Thank you in advance for any help! I'm at a loss here.

Thanks, that really helps a lot! I appreciate all the help and detail you've put into explaining, I think you've given me the perfect solution for my setup. Time to play with the settings a bit now that I understand a bit more what I'm aiming for

@RejZoR Alright. So today I went out and grabbed myself a shiny new WD Black SN750 1 TB SSD and a license for PrimoCache. I have set everything up and it seems to work amazing. Now I'm a little hazy on some of these settings and how they will be affecting performance. I figure since you've used it before I would ask for your input on some settings :D. So it's a 1TB SSD and a 6TB Hard drive that I am accelerating, with 32GB of System RAM. I've currently set it up to improve Read/Write, with Defer-Write off (as in the research I've done it seems unsafe for my data without a fail safe on my power supply). How does the level-1 Cache setting using system RAM affect performance? What would be an optimal settings for 32GB of RAM? I'm unsure as to what will change if I use 4GB of my RAM for Caching vs something much higher like 16GB. Furthermore, how does the Block Size affect the cache? It defaulted to 128KB and I've left it as such, but I'm wondering if a lower or higher setting may be better. I've tried to do some reading to figure out what I should be setting these at but I'm a little out of my depth here.

According to their webpage: "No need to reinstall Windows or applications, no need to migrate documents or data, no need to change computer infrastructure..." Haven't started using it yet, but it appears it will work without needing to move or re-install stuff!

That sounds like the exact solution I need! I love that you mention texture caching, because some of my Hard Drive games are 100 GB+ specifically because of high res texture mods. I'm definitely going to look into PrimoCache. Thanks!

I have the same question now

Ah I see. The reason I thought to get a smaller SSD as a cache drive instead of another full size SSD was I have some games on the mechanical drive that are very large (100+ GB for a single game) and that even though I don't play them often, when I do play them I will play them for a couple of weeks at a time. In this way I thought getting a cache will make more sense because I can keep my large amount of storage and get a reasonable SSD for about $80.00 to $100.00 rather than paying a couple of hundred for more space. I do use the drive frequently, I tend to just not put my "high importance" games on there to not waste my main SSD space if that makes sense. Does this line of thinking make sense? Or is it still better to just fork more money out for another 1 or 2 TB NVMe drive.

Hey all, So I've got a 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD as my main boot drive, as well as a 6TB Western Digital Black for all my mechanical storage needs (mostly backlog games). Just now have I considered the possibility of getting another SSD to use as a cache for this mechanical drive, but I've never done this before, so I'm wondering the best way to go about this. I've got a Ryzen 9 3900x on the x570 platform so my understanding is I can use StoreMI to use a new SSD I purchase as the cache for my Western Digital drive. My main questions are: Does it matter how big the SSD is? Will a 250 GB SSD be enough to cache a 6TB hard drive or will I need something bigger? Will there be any appreciable performance difference between a 2.5 inch SATA SSD and an NVMe SSD being used as the cache?