No signal on Nvidia 560+ drivers

[crude geyser]

Any drivers that are above the closed source 550 make my operating system completely unusable. After passing the bootloader menu it simply gives no signal. Any tty shortcut also doesnt do anything. This happens in any distro, so far i've tried linux mint, NixOS, EndeavourOS and CachyOS. All of them exhibit the same behavior when using the latest 565 drivers. I can confirm this because I managed to downgrade the drivers to 550 on CachyOS through chroot and it booted fine. I've attached my computer specs, maybe there's something exotic about them? Fastfetch doesn't show motherboard, it is ASUS PRIME B660-PLUS D4.

[mighty mountain]

the neofetch is pretty useless, post inxi -Fxxxz if you want to post system info.
I never encountered such issue, it's pretty specific.
Can you though describe how you are installing the driver step by step?

[crude geyser]

On linux mint i used a third party PPA and used the driver manager then. On endeavour and cachy the default drivers are 565, so no need to install anything there. Nixos by default uses nouveau i believe, but i changed it to 565 drivers with guidance from my friend who daily drives nixos

inxi -Fxxxz output

[mighty mountain]

nothing looks explicitly wrong to me. perhaps @peak spruce can know, even though Nvidia issue
can the 13th gen intel cpu be a problem?

actually this bit may be interesting

    loaded: N/A failed: nvidia gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0
    screens: 1```
notice loaded: N/A

[peak spruce]

And failed: nvidia.
Since this is the working configuration, I would argue to keep it and just not upgrade drivers. To be honest, this smells like pre-fail GPU.

[mighty mountain]

a possibly silmar issue: https://discord.com/channels/628978428019736619/1320376549639323730

@crude geyser is fast boot and secure boot in UEFI disabled, and fast startup in windows (if dualboot) disabled? if no then disable all, else linux won't work properly

[crude geyser]

all those things are disabled, and i wiped windows a while ago

well i guess i do have a broken copy of windows laying around on another drive but i doubt thats the cause

[crude geyser]

what's a pre-fail gpu?

is it actually what the internet says

that its dying

[peak spruce]

Yes, that is pre-fail. Still doing things, but on the fast track to the great scrapyard in the sky. The newer driver probably just triggers the issue harder. You can try undervolting/underclocking to prolong its suffering lifetime.

[crude geyser]

damn

any way i could check that to confirm? I personally haven't seen any other issues, all games and blender rendering work flawlessly

[crude geyser]

well there is one thing, during very high load the gpu starts to sort of whine? I dont know if thats bad or not, the internet reports that its just coil whine and isnt bad

[peak spruce]

That is coil whine, and normal for high-power cards (yes, 100+W is high power). If I were you, I would just leave it as is and get as much use out of it as you can.

[crude geyser]

Alright then, thanks

[hidden steeple]

Please note that according to the nvidia ppa 560 or higher seem to be beta drivers. 550 is production branch. I had lot of issues with the beta drivers

[mighty mountain]

good observation, however they said they tried it on other distributions that ship newest drivers by default, so this doesn't apply here

[crude geyser]

Managed to fix it, for some reason switching to DisplayPort did the trick

no idea how but it did