The screen completely freezes, but the computer as a whole does not. If a video is playing, I can still hear it’s audio going on.
Logging in from a remote machine, this is what the Linux kernel prints:
[ 2434.575193] NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:01:00: GPU-11d3516a-065c-f341-452b-55043e080074
[ 2434.575196] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 79, pid=0, GPU has fallen off the bus.
[ 2434.575198] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: GPU has fallen off the bus.
[ 2434.575209] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: GPU serial number is .
[ 2434.575216] NVRM: A GPU crash dump has been created. If possible, please run
NVRM: nvidia-bug-report.sh as root to collect this data before
NVRM: the NVIDIA kernel module is unloaded.
[ 2434.783134] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the “irqpoll” option)
[ 2434.783138] CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Tainted: P O 5.15.16-gentoo #2
[ 2434.783139] Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z370 AORUS ULTRA GAMING 2.0/Z370 AORUS ULTRA GAMING
[ 2434.783140] Call Trace:
[ 2434.783142]
[ 2434.783143] dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
[ 2434.783147] __report_bad_irq+0x30/0xa2
[ 2434.783149] note_interrupt.cold+0xb/0x61
[ 2434.783150] handle_irq_event+0x95/0xa0
[ 2434.783153] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x6e/0x1b0
[ 2434.783155] __common_interrupt+0x39/0x90
[ 2434.783158] common_interrupt+0x7b/0xa0
[ 2434.783161]
[ 2434.783161]
[ 2434.783161] asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40
[ 2434.783164] RIP: 0010:cpuidle_enter_state+0xc5/0x310
[ 2434.783166] Code: 49 89 c5 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 ff e8 96 22 75 ff 45 84 ff 74 12 9c 58 f6 c4 02 0f 85 2e 02 00 0
[ 2434.783168] RSP: 0018:ffffa393800d3ea8 EFLAGS: 00000202
[ 2434.783169] RAX: ffff99c5eeca9840 RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: 000000000000001f
[ 2434.783170] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000002d958513 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 2434.783171] RBP: ffff99c5eecb2070 R08: 00000236e4623845 R09: 00000237ae88fc15
[ 2434.783172] R10: 0000000000000002 R11: ffff99c5eeca8864 R12: ffffffffb89c9b00
[ 2434.783173] R13: 00000236e4623845 R14: 0000000000000008 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 2434.783174] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0xaa/0x310
[ 2434.783175] cpuidle_enter+0x24/0x40
[ 2434.783177] do_idle+0x1c6/0x250
[ 2434.783179] cpu_startup_entry+0x14/0x20
[ 2434.783180] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb0/0xbb
[ 2434.783182]
[ 2434.783182] handlers:
[ 2434.783183] [<00000000ffb4f5a5>] i801_isr
[ 2434.783186] Disabling IRQ #16