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Ubuntu wont load on my nvidia pci video card

Asked by 0smokey0

I have an PNY Verto Nvidia FX5200 pci video card, i recently installed Ubuntu on my computer using the onboard video card because it wouldn't load on my pci. now i want to use pci card because the onboard one is kinda crappy. when i try loading it on my pci it loads the splash screen then at the 2nd bar it stays still for a couple of seconds and it goes to a DOS looking screen. shows stuff like rc-default main process(3747) terminated with status 135 and etc... every time i load it on pci. i tried installing the driver for it on Ubuntu but it still does nothing... and now the only time my onboard video card will load is if i remove the pci card.. so what do i do to fix this???

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0smokey0 (rambo2400) said : 		#1

Oh and im currently on ubuntu 8.10...

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#2

did you add the 173 nvidia drivers? i dont think your card is supported by the 177 ones.

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-173 nvidia-settings

then the drivers will be installed. ubuntu *should* boot up. if not, when the grub menu appears press ESC then run XFIX.

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#3

oh yeah dont forget to run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

to make sure you have the latest kernel and video driver too.

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0smokey0 (rambo2400) said : 		#4

ok i did all that, but now a blue screen pops up telling x server something....and tells me to restart. after i restarted it it showed me this:

Segmentation fault
Segmentation fault
*checking file systems...
fsck 1.41.3(12-oct-2008)

*mounting local file systems... [OK]
Activating Swap file swap [Fail]
Segmentation fault
* skipping firewall: ufw(not enabled).... [OK]
*configurating Network interfaces [OK]

Init:rc Default main process (3659) term with status 139

So what do i do now that this happened?

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#5

according to wikipedia:

A segmentation fault (often shortened to segfault) is a particular error condition that can occur during the operation of computer software. A segmentation fault occurs when a program attempts to access a memory location that it is not allowed to access, or attempts to access a memory location in a way that is not allowed (for example, attempting to write to a read-only location, or to overwrite part of the operating system).

so your having some kind of memory problem? video cards have memory on them. do the errors go away when you take the nvidia card out? is the fan on the nvidia card working good or does it have heating issues?

Also when you plug the nvidia adaptor in your motherboard, do you disable the onboard video in the bios?

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