intel DQ965GF and nVidia PCI woes

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 8/1/07, michael <cs at networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote:
> Folks, I'm new to Fedora so please excuse anything I'm ignorant about!
> Having said that, I've been Googling about and trying different things
> for a couple of days so I think it's now time to ask the experts (you!).
>
> I've got a new box, it's got a intel DQ965GF mobo, with 2 SATA disks
> (LVM) and came with Fedora 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 running on it. I wanted to
> put my old nVidia geForce fx 5200 (PCI card) into it to allow me to use
> both my TFTs. However, when I do this it gets to the GRUB menu, starts
> to load a kernel (is that the right phrase) and then falls over. If I
> leave the card in but tell the BIOS to use the internal graphics it
> boots okay. But when return BIOS to auto detect or explicitly use the
> nVidia card it falls over during boot. I've tried appending
>  acpi=off
>  pci=nommconf
> at the end of the GRUB boot command but with no success. Generally the
> failure messages say (at about the time there's agpgart messages):
>   general protection fault 0000[1] SMP
>
> I'm at a loss as to why it's not working!

Most likely the motherboard was never meant to boot with an external
graphics card.