Black Screen after boot with GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

I have a desktop with GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

After Ubuntu 20.04 Installation it loads straight onto a blank screen with a blinking cursor. I get a terminal on the system using Ctrl + Alt + F1.

I first tried all the suggestions mentioned below

• - sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 followed by sudo service gdm3 restart
• - add nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. Tried rebooting and still got the same blank screen.

I read in some forums that the graphics card maybe the root cause of the issue. So I tried checking the compatible versions on NVidia's website as well as tried running ubuntu-drivers devices

== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 == modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001E04sv000010DEsd000012AEbc03sc00i00 vendor : NVIDIA Corporation model : TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti] driver : nvidia-driver-465 - third-party non-free driver : nvidia-driver-418-server - distro non-free driver : nvidia-driver-450-server - distro non-free driver : nvidia-driver-460-server - distro non-free driver : nvidia-driver-460 - third-party non-free recommended driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin 

I went with nvidia-driver-460. Tried rebooting after that and still booted up into the same blank screen. I tried running nvidia-smi and then something happened to the display. It showed multiple purple glitches across the screen and returned No devices were found

I tried purging and reinstalling the drivers as per this answer - The output for some of the commonly requested commands across the forum in similar scenarios have been highlighted

lspci -vvv

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at a3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 3: Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Region 5: I/O ports at 3000 [size=128] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia 

dmesg | grep NVRM

[ 2.758029] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 460.84 Wed May 26 20:14:59 UTC 2021 [ 4.073016] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1290) [ 4.073070] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0 [ 4.507083] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1290) [ 4.507166] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0 [ 5.189855] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1290) [ 5.189875] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0 [ 5.623500] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1290) [ 5.623520] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0 [ 1165.397831] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1290) [ 1165.397902] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0 [ 1165.830240] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1290) [ 1165.830257] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0 [ 1179.773513] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1290) [ 1179.773531] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0 [ 1180.202302] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1290) [ 1180.202325] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0 [ 1416.634313] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1290) [ 1416.634352] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0 [ 1417.063089] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffff:1290) [ 1417.063107] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0 

dmesg | grep nvidia

[ 2.621823] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. [ 2.758029] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 460.84 Wed May 26 20:14:59 UTC 2021 [ 2.774304] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 460.84 Wed May 26 20:01:59 UTC 2021 

1 Answer

Try adding pcie_aspm=off and rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1 to kernel cmdline.

You could also try installing the latest drivers from the Nvidia website. I know this isn't ideal, but it might be an informative test:

However, this looks like a hardware failure. Take a look at and to test your GPU memory.