the infernal machine now freezes a few seconds after booting. nothing works to try to recover it not even ctrl+alt+f2. booting in recovery mode does the same thing, i get a few seconds into what i'm doing and then it dies. maybe the new gpu is bad? it wasn't doing this with the amd card.

maybe getting left outside overnight killed it somehow

@earthling@lab.nyanide.com how cold was it? I've had machines left out in sub zero temperatures to seemingly no ill effect

@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co not cold at all probably about 50

@earthling@lab.nyanide.com try reseating both the GPU and the ram. Both can cause mysterious problems if they're even minorly off

@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co i moved the gpu to another pcie slot and it's doing the same thing, i'll try reseating the ram

@earthling@lab.nyanide.com if that doesn't work you might also check if there's overclock or xmp enabled in bios if you can get to it in time

@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co i can get to the bios just fine it just dies when it tries to actually boot

@earthling@lab.nyanide.com oh. Have you tried safe mode? I think that turns off all custom drivers right? If your video out is going through the GPU and BIOS works fine, that at least means it should be working to some degree without the driver loaded

@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co it dies in rescue mode

@earthling@lab.nyanide.com oh, I thought you were still on windows. Are you able to test if it works without the GPU entirely?

@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co unfortunately there is no video out on the motherboard. but it was working fine before with the previous gpu that was in there so i'm inclined to believe the new one is causing the issue.

@earthling@lab.nyanide.com probably. It's just fairly unusual for a device to arrive defective like that.

@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co it is a 5070 if that means anything, so it might be that it's just not playing nice with the linux kernel for some reason. i'll see if i can get windows 11 working.

@earthling@lab.nyanide.com are you using an m2 ssd by any chance?

@Inginsub@clubcyberia.co yeah but again it was working fine for years before with the previous gpu and it only started this up after i put the 5070 in

@gray@clubcyberia.co @earthling@lab.nyanide.com @Inginsub@clubcyberia.co probably not but I didn't consider maybe the power supply isn't strong enough for the new cards? 50 series is insanely high wattage, but I'd think the whole system would just black screen if that was the case

@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co @Inginsub@clubcyberia.co @earthling@lab.nyanide.com i was thinking maybe it can't handle the initial load of booting the OS with the new card.

@gray@clubcyberia.co @Inginsub@clubcyberia.co @earthling@lab.nyanide.com possibly. I don't know exactly how power management works in pre boot state but I do notice my CPU tends to be significantly hotter during POST

@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co @Inginsub@clubcyberia.co @gray@clubcyberia.co i have a 1000w power supply is that not enough for a 5070?

@earthling@lab.nyanide.com @Inginsub@clubcyberia.co @gray@clubcyberia.co probably depends on your CPU but that's likely sufficient. Do you have a kill-a-watt meter that can measure the draw from the wall?

@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co @earthling@lab.nyanide.com @Inginsub@clubcyberia.co yeah 1000W should be enough as long as the rails that supply the GPU are rated enough. is it a decent PSU brand?

@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co @Inginsub@clubcyberia.co @gray@clubcyberia.co

@gray@clubcyberia.co @Inginsub@clubcyberia.co @RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co it's seasonic