Manjaro Not booting using Nvidia gforce 310

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 01

During installation I had to boot using proprietary drivers to boot to live USB as computer was not able to boot using open source drivers .Now after installation system not booting again.please help

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From the output provided there is only Intel and no Nvidia.

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It may be that the video card is not correctly seated in the slot. Additionally, GF310 might no longer be supported (in general).

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Hi @asifnaz, and welcome!

Sounds like an old installation media, since it did work using the proprietary drivers. And this :point_down:

Makes it sound like the card might be disabled in the BIOS/UEFI. So check that.

And note that, if it, indeed, is the 310 card, as the title says, it will not work OOB and you’ll have to search around here on the forum for instructions on how to get it working. (Based on my knowledge from a quick search.)

But we can’t say any more t6o confirm/dispell the theories without any more information. To that end, please see:

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Hope you manage!

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Because I had to unplug Nvidia geforce 310 and use integrated GPU . As it was not booting as I mention in orignal post .

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What is the problem then?

The open source Nouveau driver is opensource and quite functional when it comes to old Nvidia cards.

Since this topic is your first I am guessing you are not familiar with Arch Linux and Manjaro.

latest gforce driver supporting 3xx series is 340.x - effectively making your device unsupported on Archbased distributions.

You may however succeed if you use a custom package build using AUR buildscript.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

For this to work you need to use manjaro unstable branch, possibly dkms and kernel headers.

sudo pacman-mirrors -aS unstable

Check your running kernel

 $ mhwd-kernel -li
Currently running: 6.1.55-1-MANJARO (linux61)
The following kernels are installed in your system:
   * linux61

Install kernel headers matching the last word - in this example linux61 - important to run a full system update as well

sudo pacman -Syyu linux61-headers dkms

Then build the 340xx drivers

pamac build nvidia-340xx-dkms

You may want to build other 340xx related packages as well

pamac search 340xx
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More information may be found at the following link NVIDIA ArchWiki.

Be mindful that even if successful in using the unsupported GF310 (using the guidelines outlined at the above link), you will likely be plagued with poor performance (unavoidable) and ongoing maintenance issues.

The better solution is to buy a compatible graphics card. Not being a fan of Nvidia, I would suggest an AMD Radeon RX 580 / RX 590 for general affordability, availability, reliability and support. Cheers.

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