Trying to install on Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero/Ryzen 9500x/RTX 5070 and after booting from USB drive and selecting start live option, the screen turns off, fans on GPU start whining at max and that’s it - nothing else happens. Tried proposed solutions from the web but to no avail. Anyone has a solution?
You don’t state what you have already tried, but have you tried booting the live ISO with the nomodeset kernel parameter set?
Boot Live USB and at the grub menu press e, add nomodeset to the kernel parameters on the after rhgb and quiet and hit Ctrl-X to boot that kernel.
Apologies for not stating it, yes I tried using nouveau.modset=0 as suggested in this thread. Unfortunately did not for me.
Reading that there are known issues with Nvidia’s drivers, I’m kinda puzzled for Nvidia are by far the most popular GPUs out there. Another observation, after booting the USB it goes to the Grub screen where the only selection is to start desktop live, and it goes downhill after that - screen gets turned off, fans on the GPU go into overdrive and that’s it. So it seems the Grub screen is fine with the GPU, what goes wrong after that?
Did you mix the 5 and 9?
If so, please edit the opening post.
You don’t have integrated graphics, so you can’t do the simple trick of using them instead of the Nvidia GPU.
That said, this issue is too complex for me to help right now (I am ill) so I hope you’ll get someone who can actually help here.
That said, I don’t know if the Live Image can run with Software LLVMpipe (stuck at 480p or not) so maybe that could be tried.
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Can you try a different installer, such as the Fedora Everything Netinstaller version 42?
I assume you are using Workstation installer.
You can still install Workstation or your desired desktop via Netinstaller.
I tried Workstation as well as Plasma, also different USB drives including Micro SD, and I tried the Netinstaller too with the same result - screen turns off, GPU fans go nuts and nothing else happens. With the Netinstaller there was a delay before the GPU’s fan ramped up after the screen turns off, like a minute or so, where with other installers it took 5-10 seconds which I guess is because it pulls the executables online rather than reading them from the drive. That sucks as I wanted to try Fedora, and thx a lot for replying.
This person had a similar problem with a 5070 Ti which was resolved by booting in UEFI mode (i.e. disabling Compatibility Support Mode):
Might be worth disabling CSM if it’s enabled in your BIOS at present.
Tried disabling CSM, same result. And to see if this is a Fedora specific issue, I tried installing Ubuntu and got the same exact result 
which kinda makes sense, right - the core kernel is basically the same.
So I went searching for issues with Nvidia’s RTX 50xx series GPU to find that the web is just littered with such, all across the board. There are posts about installing drivers but that needs the distro installed in the first place. I guess I have to resign to the fact that at least for the time being, I can’t have Linux on my hardware.
You could
- Install onto a hard drive on another computer and then move the hard drive
- Do a remote install
- Borrow a different graphics card and install
On Windows, Nvidia GPUs aren’t half bad, though IMO they have abused their performance advantage to ask absurd prices. But just because they sell a lot doesn’t mean that they work well with Linux.
There are people around here who use Nvidia GPUs, but it is more work than one of their competitors. You will have to decide if this is something you want to do. Personally, I have decided around 10 years ago that I don’t want to invest the time into Nvidia proprietary drivers and have happily used AMD Radeon cards ever since.
try to boot one of the updated respins
Or less hassle, the nvidia version of Bazzite, which is based on fedora is available via Download Link https://download.bazzite.gg/bazzite-nvidia-open-stable-amd64.iso
Is reported to work, as it already has nvidia drivers configured.
Maybe Fedora 43 or Fedora Rawhile (development version) will work too.
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Nobara could be an option too, for the same reason.
Speaking of which, is there any detriment to using Bazzite as a daily driver?
Why would I not want to use it over a “vanilla” installation of .
It’s not Fedora, and it is Atomic.
Neither of which I would recommend unless it was an extreme case of not being able to have Linux otherwise.
However, I’m sure its still a great system and has access to all the world if Flatpak.
I looked it up and Nobara, while non-atomic, uses AppArmor instead of SELinux. Sounds wierd to me.
It also has some different ways of updating and more differences.
But I have seen enough users to know it does what it does very well.
Bazzite’s driver-bundled installation worked, thx for suggesting it.
First thing I did was mapping a drive on my network with Dolphin file manager, it connected the first time but then shortly after the app crushed. And now crashes every time I try to connect again, right after I enter the credentials. I’ll look into that, the important thing is the distro is running.
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