System freeze / kernel panic on Ubuntu & Arch (RTX 3060 server machine)

Hi everyone,

I’m facing a serious stability issue on a server machine with an RTX 3060.

The system either:

• Completely freezes (no SSH, no response), OR
• Shows a kernel panic like:

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Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task
RIP: enqueue_entity+0x15a/0x3b0
spi_intel_pci spi_intel idma64 wmi

Important detail:
This happens on both Ubuntu 24.04 and Arch Linux, fresh installs.

Machine details:

• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3060
• CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KS
• RAM: 128.0 GiB (4200 MT/s)
• Kernel version: (6.8.0-101-generic, linux-zen)
• NVIDIA driver version: (tried diff versions like [535, 550, 580, 590]
• No overclock

Context:
This machine is used for GPU workloads (CUDA / DeepStream / AI inference).
The crash/freezing sometimes happens under load, sometimes randomly.