Librem 13 crashing repeatedly

Hardware Librem 13/15
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I heard back from customer support after a rep named Goran escalated this … here is what they emailed me!

"We have discovered a regression in the latest coreboot BIOS that was installed on your laptop. This regression causes the CPU to heat up faster and higher than it should and under high load it can cause the system to spontaneously power off. To fix this issue will require that you flash your BIOS with our latest version of coreboot. All of these steps will require that you run commands in a terminal.

Here’s what you need to do:

First, temporarily disable the TurboBoost feature in your CPU. This will
prevent the laptop from shutting down while it is building the coreboot
BIOS:

sudo bash -c “echo -n 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo”

Next, update coreboot:

  1. Download the build script
    mkdir building-coreboot && cd building-coreboot && wget https://code.puri.sm/kakaroto/coreboot-files/raw/master/build_coreboot.sh

  2. Install the required dependencies:
    sudo apt-get install git build-essential bison flex m4 zlib1g-dev gnat libpci-dev libusb-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev dmidecode bsdiff python2.7

  3. Run the script on your Librem machine:
    chmod +x build_coreboot.sh && ./build_coreboot.sh

  4. Follow the instructions on the screen, and BE SURE to select your
    correct Librem laptop revision (Librem 13v2 or Librem 15v3, select Librem
    13v2 if you have a Librem 13v3), and give it time to build the image.
    Beyond selecting your specific laptop revision you can select the default
    choices for the rest of the script.

  5. Once done, if everything went according to plan, it will ask you if you
    want to flash the newly built image.

  6. Make sure you are not running on low battery and select Yes.

  7. Reboot your machine once the flashing process is done.

Once your machine is rebooted, you should no longer have any spontaneous
power off issues."

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