Nvidia headaches or bad motherboard?

[Karl Larsen]

Young wrote:
> I can't make the Nvidia drivers active, and can't detect the graphics
> hardware or the monitor.
>
> I just built a new system, and Ubuntu is giving me fits because of
> Nvidia. I wanted to avoid Nvidia, but when you try to find a good
> low/medium cost system with decent performance it seems to be the only
> choice.
>
> 	Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200 Allendale 2.2GHz 1MB L2 Cache
>
> 	ECS GF7100PVT-M3  Motherboard with onboard graphics.
> 	North Bridge  	NVIDIA GeForce 7100
> 	South Bridge 	nForce 630i
> 	http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135066
>
> Ubuntu 8.04.01-alternate-amd64 has problems which I described in the
> thread "New System Problem", and couldn't solve.
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> I've backed off to 32 bit and installed Ubuntu 8.04.1-desktop-i386.
> Still having problems.
> First its stuck at 800x600 max.
>
> I tried the "System > Administration > Hardware Drivers" method from
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
> and tried using Envy.
>
> Both resulted in a message at the first stage of the boot process:
>
> 	Ubuntu is running in low-graphic mode.
> 	Your screen and graphics card could not
> 	be detected correctly. To use....
>
> This gives choices of monitors and graphics cards and drivers to choose
> from. But, the only thing that mattered is choosing a monitor. Any
> choice larger than 1280x1024, or any choice of a graphics card or
> driver will result in 800x600 graphics. And better than 800x600 will
> then only appear after a second restart, after choosing 1280x1024 and 
> nothing else.
>
> I have a second machine, a KVM switch and second LCD panel, so I've
> swapped out just about everything. The only thing I haven't done is put
> the new 1680x1050 LCD on the old machine.
>
> I installed read-edid on both machines. Only the old machine could read 
> the edid info from the old monitor.
> ***Does this mean the new motherboard is bad?
>
> The new LCD has been connected to the new machine with both the analog
> and DVI connectors.
>
> I couldn't get the Nvidia manual installation method to work. Its 
> outside my skills, and I don't really think it will work, anyway.
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> Any ideas?
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    What can I say? When I loaded Hardy it asked if I wanted the good 
nVidia driver and I said yes. I got it and my computer has been just 
great since. It works.

Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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