Hi, how did you do the firmware upgrade? Does it appear as an option in the control center? I don't see anything about the firmware but I assume it's because it's on the latest. Mine seems to make unnecessarily loud pump sounds whenever it starts up but then settles down to a more reasonable...
It has been completely stable for me also (on Fedora). Same thing with having to smash F12 on boot but the boot cycle is literally just a few seconds if you miss it.
The nvidia drivers have been fine with kernel updates (using kmod package).
The "workarounds" were all for getting the...