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I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 1st 2026 (Hard), in less than 15 minutes
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I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jan 31st 2026 (Hard), in less than 16 minutes
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I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jan 29th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 11 minutes
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I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jan 28th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 14 minutes
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Both Tyler, our paid test solver, and Kelsey, my wife, our unpaid test solver, read PUTTING as PUTTING and not PUTTING. Odds are you did too. Just remember: PUTTING can be pronounced PUTTING or PUTTING.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jan 26th 2026 (Easy), in 03:41
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I got Hexcodle #899 in 4! Score: 69%

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Toyota Supra

Thanks for the help. If it's the hardware then it's the hardware. I will try a few more things like booting from the drive in a different PC, but I may have to spend some money.

Checked the logs in Windows, you're right! A corrected hardware error has occurred from PCI Express Root Port. I reseated the drive with no change.

I should mention that this laptop has always had issues with what I assumed to be thermal throttling. It would play games fine for 10-15 minutes before becoming a slideshow. I eventually stopped trying.

I have set that option and I am currently downloading a GPU benchmark. Is that an appropriate test? What should I be looking for in dmesg?

Installed Linux Mint on my old personal laptop (Dell XPS 9560) and unfortunately ran into some issues that made me switch back to Windows. I really want to make it work

It seems to have revealed either a hardware bug or failing hardware in the NVMe drive.

First problem was log spam that filled up the partition:

2025-12-29T12:15:46.439880-05:00 redacted kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Correctable error message received from 0000:04:00.0
2025-12-29T12:15:46.439934-05:00 redacted kernel: nvme 0000:04:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Correctable, type=Physical Layer, (Receiver ID)
2025-12-29T12:15:46.439936-05:00 redacted kernel: nvme 0000:04:00.0:   device [126f:2262] error status/mask=00000001/0000e000
2025-12-29T12:15:46.439938-05:00 redacted kernel: nvme 0000:04:00.0:    [ 0] RxErr                  (First)
2025-12-29T12:15:46.439939-05:00 redacted kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Multiple Correctable error message received from 0000:04:00.0
2025-12-29T12:15:46.439940-05:00 redacted kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Correctable, type=Data Link Layer, (Transmitter ID)
2025-12-29T12:15:46.439941-05:00 redacted kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1d.0:   device [8086:a118] error status/mask=00001000/00000000
2025-12-29T12:15:46.439943-05:00 redacted kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1d.0:    [12] Timeout               
2025-12-29T12:15:46.439944-05:00 redacted kernel: nvme 0000:04:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Correctable, type=Physical Layer, (Receiver ID)
2025-12-29T12:15:46.439945-05:00 redacted kernel: nvme 0000:04:00.0:   device [126f:2262] error status/mask=00000001/0000e000
2025-12-29T12:15:46.439946-05:00 redacted kernel: nvme 0000:04:00.0:    [ 0] RxErr                  (First)

Some forum posts I found (example) suggested that this was a hardware bug and I could set pcie_aspm=off in grub to work around it. This stopped the log spam and everything seemed to be working fine.

Later while I was doing some programming, everything froze for a while. When it came back, the partition was set to readonly. It wouldn't boot on restart and loaded up busybox instead. I was able to set it to writable, but it happened again soon after.

I decided to switch back to Windows where there doesn't seem to be any issues.

I really want to make it work. If it's failing hardware then I have no choice but to replace the drive, but if it's just a bug then I want to find a fix without buying new hardware. That would kind of defeat the point for me and I don't want to spend the money.

I would appreciate any help. I booted into Mint again to grab the logs and I really want to keep using it.

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