I’m following this thread because I’m investigating similar WHEA-Logger Event ID 17 behaviour on a Pro Max 16 Plus.
One question I have for people who have had Dell work on affected systems: were the removable PCIe devices ever physically isolated or substituted during troubleshooting?
In particular:
was the NVIDIA DGFF module ever replaced with a known-good module, rather than only changing drivers/settings or replacing the system board?
was the Intel BE200 ever physically removed/replaced, rather than only disabled in Windows or BIOS?
I’m asking because I’ve seen reports involving the same BE200 PCI ID (8086:272B) on some other recent systems, including Alienware and Acer machines, and I’m interested in whether anyone has compared those cases or performed a true hardware swap test. I’m not suggesting the BE200 is necessarily responsible.
For context, Dell has already replaced the system board and NVMe SSD in my system and the behaviour remains.
I also ran an Ubuntu Live comparison. Linux enabled PCIe AER and the BE200, NVMe and Intel graphics were present, but I did not observe the same Windows-style AER burst during that session. The NVIDIA GPU was detected but was not fully exercised under the Linux live environment, so I don’t regard that test as proving or excluding any particular component.
I’d be interested to hear specifically from anyone who has had either the BE200 or DGFF GPU physically swapped or removed and whether that changed the WHEA behaviour or the intermittent stuttering.
