<![CDATA[Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load.]]>Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. Logged in, got to a browser, and there was no internet. Checked the cable, rebooted and now it's not even showing anything on the monitor. Super. I'm wondering if I might need to change the PSU from the 750W one to the 1,000W one, but I doubt that would cause issues unless it was under load. Mobo ded?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/84498481-191a-444e-af8a-42d58f1976a3/wonderful.-switched-on-my-dual-gpu-ubuntu-machine-earlier-and-it-seemed-to-take-quite-a-bit-of-time-to-load.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 04:21:08 GMTThu, 23 Apr 2026 14:48:57 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:13:15 GMT]]>@davep I once had a bios update that killed my mobo. I'm never ever gonna try to fix stuffs again.
Oh, and once an update for a newly installed GPU that killed the mobo.
Never again!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.derg.nz/users/VickForcella/statuses/116455610488858068https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.derg.nz/users/VickForcella/statuses/116455610488858068Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:13:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:10:09 GMT]]>@VickForcella I basically ended up going through the same process I went through nearly a decade ago, which I'd obviously forgotten.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116455598298409541https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116455598298409541Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:10:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:07:52 GMT]]>@davep Axe or chainsaw. Always works. Or the pond.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.derg.nz/users/VickForcella/statuses/116455589300647029https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.derg.nz/users/VickForcella/statuses/116455589300647029Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:07:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:48:31 GMT]]>@vonxylofon @woe2you
I changed that the other day. Ended up disabling secure boot and the Nvidia drivers are working fine now.

For now...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116455277327302526https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116455277327302526Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:48:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:35:42 GMT]]>@davep @woe2you Completely a shot in the dark, but try replacing the CMOS battery. It caused all sorts of weird power- and boot-related fuckery for me, and was a $1 fix.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://witter.cz/users/vonxylofon/statuses/116455226868873391https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://witter.cz/users/vonxylofon/statuses/116455226868873391Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:35:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:32:04 GMT]]>@woe2you Finally got it doing a net install. I'm worried there's something else up at the BIOS level though, or it's being finicky about which GPU port I'm using.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116454976672010614https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116454976672010614Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:32:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:16:05 GMT]]>@woe2you Even in recovery mode it can't start networking. Nvidia drivers I had specifically installed for these Pascal cards isn't installed. Currently letting it sit and think about its life choices without power before reinstalling Ubuntu.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116454913839006150https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116454913839006150Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:16:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:01:52 GMT]]>@davep Fractally fucked? Keep us posted. I like haunted computer stories.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/116454857927945867https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/116454857927945867Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:01:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:55:38 GMT]]>@woe2you Changed the PSU, reset the CMOS, got into Ubuntu and removed stuff like docker that might be messing with my network settings (I think I installed it last night and it's been playing up since the next reboot). Only problem is, it still seems to randomly not start properly. 100% reboots fail, random hard boots succeed. Noticed that docker decided to modify my Nvidia drivers too, which isn't optimal. What a pain in the bum.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116454833434371178https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116454833434371178Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:55:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:26:04 GMT]]>@davep Hopefully that fixes it. I had a PSU crap out on me a couple of years back, it was very annoying. I'd just bought Helldivers 2 because everyone I knew was raving about it. I got halfway through the tutorial, to the bit where you learn how to drop a tactical nuke on something (my terminology may be off, the experience plus UI niggles put me off the game so much I never played it again) and right at that moment it let the magic smoke out.

Luckily a mate had a spare one NIB he let me have for a song. It even had the same pinout so I didn't have to junk all my custom cables.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/116454717148970087https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/116454717148970087Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:26:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:22:11 GMT]]>@woe2you Yup, arrived the other day. 🤞

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116454701870253847https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116454701870253847Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:22:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:19:21 GMT]]>@davep Fingers crossed for you. At least it sounds like you already have the 1kw PSU to hand?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/116454690767748064https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/116454690767748064Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:19:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:17:28 GMT]]>Bugger, it's not responding. No motherboard lights indicating anything untoward. Guess I'll change the PSU, try again, if that fails check with a USB stick and if that works go for a reinstall.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116454683313011277https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116454683313011277Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:17:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wonderful. Switched on my dual-GPU Ubuntu machine earlier and it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:09:52 GMT]]>Managed to get into the BIOS and to the slow networkless boot by a mixture of a hard reboot and power cycling the monitor (which is a first). Messed around in the BIOS PCIe stuff just to feel like it was a worthwhile endeavour and it's still not working without a full power off. Hmm.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116454653465006508https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/davep/statuses/116454653465006508Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:09:52 GMT