I've been trying to setup my GeForce GTX 970 on my desktop. It used to work, and then I messed up something (unrelated issue) and decided I should start from scratch since the computer was still new so I re-installed Ubuntu 16.04. All I meant with this is that I have no hardware problem.
Everytime I plug in my GPU on my motherboard and turn my computer on, my screen stays entirely black during the whole process ; I do not get any kind of image during POST, boot, login, etc. This is particularly annoying since it prevents me from installing the drivers (I am assuming the graphic card has to be plugged in the computer for the drivers to be installed?). I've also been experiencing issues installing the drivers, but if my screen is on with the graphic card plugged in I assume I can figure my way back to a fully working computer.
I tried a lot of things up to now, but I'm still open to suggestions.
EDIT : Ok I feel really stupid not noticing before. My problem is not solved, but my screen is not actually black, there's just no video output. for some reason I thought there was output before but there never was. The monitor is plugged in the motherboard, not the graphic card (although both give me no output).
ADDED : if a solution involves re-installing Ubuntu, I'm okay with that. It's been re-installed several times today.
EDIT 2 : Attempted multiple solutions today, always after a fresh re-install. I am out of ideas. Googled everything I could google, tried mixing different solutions to adapt to my computer (most solutions out there do not match my exact computer specs), no success. I am posting my specs hoping that someone knows what to do.
Motherboard : GIGABYTE z170a CPU : i7 6700k GPU : NVIDIA GTX 970 (the one I am trying to install) Ubuntu 16.04
Please also add the part which confuses me a lot since the beginning : at what point during the installation of the drivers should I plug in my graphic card into my desktop, and is it normal that without a successful driver installation that my monitor gets no video output (I still get an audio output and manage to blindly activate commands from terminal such as shutdown
). I am wondering since nvidia-installer
tells me it can't detect modules, I thought maybe these are in the graphic card and cannot be detected because I didn't plug it in. But I am not sure.
nomodeset
and re-install the driver. And make sure that SecureBoot is disabled in BIOS.