Installed Nvidia GT630 and S server fails to boot up.

[Christopher Barry]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:16:35 +0900
aki <fnaito at gmail.com> wrote:

>I have a mother board with an intel graphics card, and add a GeForce
>GT 630 to the expansion slot. Windows recognized it and installed
>proper drivers but Mint gives me an error and stalls.
>Error mess. said " FAILED TO START THE X SERVER (YOUR GRAPHICAL 
>INTERFACE). IT IS LIKELY THAT IT IS NOT SET CORRECTLY." it asks too to 
>view the server output choosing NO, next appear "THE X SERVER IS NOW 
>DISABLED. RESTART MDM WHEN IT IS CONFIGURED CORRECTLY" after that a 
>black screen. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del Mint logo seems on screen and 
>restart, i think, because i heard the "Beep" alarm when yo put the
>power on, but after that only black screen, nor windows nor mint boots
>up. Try to boot mint from live DVD, and after the same errors, it 
>stops(Loops) at the User and passwor request onthe command promt.
>By the way, the GeForce is not recognized by my BIOS/UEFI and by GRUB, 
>For access Bios/UEFI settings i must to remove the GeForce and go back 
>to the intel card.
>
>I tried NOMODESET, and do not work. "nomodeset" i read somewhere
>bypass graphics card's driver and use bios settings, that is the
>problem my bios not recognized the graphic card (May be there are some
>hidden bios settings i did not found yet), reading some cases in
>Asus/nvidia forums, there are a lot of cases of Asus firmware
>incompatibility with other graphics card than the onboard one, but
>this cases are all worst than mine at least i have error messages.
>With nomodeset i have black screen from start to end, but i think boot
>process are going because, there are some i/o to the hard disk, but
>not sure of what was going on. I am watching if force install device
>drivers without the card physicaly installed is possible, or a way to
>bypass the open source drivers and directly install the propietary
>drivers on first bootup. My graphic card(All my hardware) is, i think,
>old enough to be supported by the standard open source drivers (Bought
>it more than 3 years ago), and neither the live/installation DVD are
>working. Where is the problem? I have no idea. May be the Bios/Uefi
>firmware, i have a very bad experience with it, I was trying to setup
>Linux/Win doble boot, once Grub is installed all boot procs
>disappeared. Linux standalone, do not work, reinstalled win stand
>alone and worked. Then flashed the firmware and all goes like the
>tutorials: install, select OS, press enter and go. But on the other
>side, Windows graphics drivers are doing fine, they installed
>automatically, and for now nothing of troubling. This is the boot
>log(Xorg.0.log):
>
>http://pastebin.com/pMzJgs2S
>

Is there an option in the BIOS to disable or deprioritize the builtin
gpu?

Write down the keys required to reverse that action, (you may be
able to reset defaults with a single F-key or key combo) then
deprioritize or disable the builtin gpu and power-cycle it - not just
reboot. If it still has no video, you'll need to enter the BIOS blind
and reset it with the keys you wrote down. 

I have had to do a similar thing before myself to get an add in
PCIE card to work correctly. It's a bit hairy, but doable. :)

Good luck!

-C



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Regards,
Christopher Barry