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brout

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Registered: 2026-01-22

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Re: [SOLVED] legacy nvidia drivers not working for me (keeps rebooting)

But if I were to look at a new PSU, what would be the thing to look for, if output is pretty irrelevant?

The crashes kept occuring on windows after I removed the "nvidia graphics driver" & "nvidia hd audio driver" in control panel, and plugged in the hdmi to the motherboard instead of the gpu, and set primary display to IGFX instead of PEG in bios

Can you trigger it w/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Stress_testing#stress ?
Or the script in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p2260219 ?

I ran "sudo stress --cpu 8" for a couple of minutes and it went perfectly fine.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] legacy nvidia drivers not working for me (keeps rebooting)

yeah the gpu is connected with power & is properly seated. I checked earlier.

Check that again - gut-feeling-wise the GPU draws too much from the bus and the most likely cause is that the dedicated power supply does not properly work.
You can try to boot w/ "maxcpus=1" or "maxcpus=0" (the latter one is nosmp, you still get a core) but 700W should™ be plenty enough unless there's some surprise draw (blinding led lightshow or whatever)

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brout

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Registered: 2026-01-22

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] legacy nvidia drivers not working for me (keeps rebooting)

yeah the gpu is connected with power & is properly seated. I checked earlier.

Check that again - gut-feeling-wise the GPU draws too much from the bus and the most likely cause is that the dedicated power supply does not properly work.
You can try to boot w/ "maxcpus=1" or "maxcpus=0" (the latter one is nosmp, you still get a core) but 700W should™ be plenty enough unless there's some surprise draw (blinding led lightshow or whatever)

I ordered a new 650W one from corsair. Will post an update here in a few days. Thank you for the help

brout

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Registered: 2026-01-22

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] legacy nvidia drivers not working for me (keeps rebooting)

Yep it was the PSU as seth said