I’m running Qubes OS on an Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU and an RTX 5070 GPU (2025 model), installed on a external USB drive.
I’m experiencing two separate issues:
1. Random complete freeze during normal use
After a few hours of just working normally, the entire system suddenly hard-freezes no lag beforehand, no warning, it just locks up instantly. The screen freezes, the keyboard becomes completely unresponsive, and the only way out is a forced power-off. Nothing in my usage triggers it consistently it just happens randomly.
2. Sleep/wake causes a reboot
When the laptop goes into sleep mode and I open it back up, it seems to resume for about a minute and then spontaneously reboots itself.
I never had either of these issues on my older laptop or desktop PC running Qubes.
What I’ve already tried:
- Installed the newest available kernel via
sudo qubes-dom0-update kernel-latest kernel-latest-qubes-vmand set it as the global default no change to the freezing behavior - I can’t use the new kernel on sys-net specifically, because on any kernel newer than the oldest one, the WiFi connections don’t show up in Network Manager at all. So sys-net stays pinned to the old kernel while all other VMs use the new one.
Has anyone with the same or similar hardware (especially Intel Ultra / Meteor Lake + Nvidia RTX) found a working fix? Any help appreciated.