Haines Brown via Dng said on Fri, 6 Feb 2026 10:14:29 -0500

>I continue an earlier question under a new subject because my
>initial efforts ended in disastor (unconfigured
>nvidia-persistenced) and I will have to start from scratch. The
>problem was that the GPU chip on my motherboard died and I had to
>substitute for it a Gigabyte FeForce 1030 vidia card.

Bad choice of substitutes. See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4SWxWIOVBM

>I thank Bill for his recommendation that in BIOS I tell NVRAM to
>use my added card as the first or only option. But my F4 BIOS has
>no such option to set NVRM. It does see that a PCIe 3.0X4@1.0X4
>device is in the PCIeX4 slot. I hope this suffices to have BIOS
>ignore the dead GPU chip on the MB.

I've had built-in video go bad, and disabling in the BIOS always opened
the door for the video card I installed to work properly.

>In re-reading the upgrrade directions for Excalibur, I now think
>my best scenario is to do as follows. I'd really appreciate
>criticism.

[snip a 9 step rain dance to work around nvidia nonsense]

>Are any of these reboots superfluous?

I think the odds are greater than 50/50 that when all is said and done,
you'll believe your entire attempt to get nvidia video to work with
Linux was both superfluous and a massive waste of your time. A similar
stupid and irreparable nvidia problem almost cost me a $2700 USD
contract in late 2020, and only replacement with a Radeon with a
massive next day shipping charge saved the contract.

This is the point at which 100 of you will say that nvidia video cards
(or the new word, GPUs) work perfectly on your Linux system. True
enough. Probably only 1% of Linux+nvidia users have serious nvidia
troubles. But Haines is already in that 1%, so now the question is, is
he in the 50% of that 1% who will eventually work around the mess after
hours, days or weeks of experimentation, or is he in the 50% of the 1%
who will NEVER get his nvidia card to work?

I'll end this post with a little poem...

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Nvidia is nonsense.
Radeon to the rescue!
======================

SteveT

Steve Litt

http://444domains.com