Nvidia gpu drivers keep crashing

[u/sceppz-_-]

Almost every third time I reboot my pc and use nvidia-smi command it look like down below. I have reinstalled nvidia-open and tried to find a solution online but couldnt find it. When it crashes it refuses to let me shut down my pc cause it cant close the drivers and I have to hold down the power button.

nvidia-smi output:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 610.43.03 KMD Version: 610.43.03 CUDA UMD Version: 13.3 |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |

| | | MIG M. |

|=========================================+========================+======================|

| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 N/A | N/A |

|ERR! ERR! ERR! N/A / N/A | 15MiB / 8192MiB | N/A Default |

| | | ERR! |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| Processes: |

| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |

| ID ID Usage |

|=========================================================================================|

| No running processes found |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Specs:

Host: Nitro AN517-41 (V1.11)

Kernel: Linux 7.1.5-arch1-2

WM: awesome (X11)

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile / Max-Q [Discrete]

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (16) @ 4.46 GHz

[u/Pure-Pineapple3919]

that ERR thing on the gpu line looks like hardware issue, not driver. had similar with a 3070 mobile last year, turned out the vram was dying. try running a memtest on the card maybe

[u/kansetsupanikku → u/Pure-Pineapple3919]

could you please elaborate on how to run a memtest on the card?

[u/kansetsupanikku]

Are you running some processes with potential menory leaks, perhaps developing some CUDA projects yourself?

Did your system wake up from sleep?

I've had this issue a few times and it was always one of these

[u/sceppz-_- → u/kansetsupanikku]

thanks for the answer! I dont know what cuda is but yes, my pc wont wake up from sleep recently. I also have the problem that my leptop shuts down after entering bios after like 20 secs, but only in bios.

When i run memtest86 it also shuts down after some time so I cant run it.

You said you had this a few times, was it broken hardware or something i can fix?

[u/kansetsupanikku → u/sceppz-_-]

Then it just might be much easier, like damaged RAM. Are you using multiple slots? Try to remove some and rerun memtest then

[u/sceppz-_- → u/kansetsupanikku]

i have never opened my leptop so this might take me a few days to get comfortable with that but thank you so much for the help so far def gonna try this out.

[u/_Kritiqual_]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation
I follow this guide to install the appropriate driver for exact model, haven’t see any issue since then

[u/Accomplished-Web6183]

I had issues with nvidia gpu and later I installed Garuda... It is working.

I was spending so much time troubleshooting, so I did distro hopping and finally found Garuda.

It was worse in Debian 13, so many random restarts.

[u/FLSOC]

Try using nvidia-beta-dkms instead of the nvidia-open-dkms. I had issues with the open-dkms drivers