cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/825621

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Hey friends, I just bought a ASUS Nvidia 5060 ti prime at a store closing sale. I have bazzite installed on my gaming PC and switching out it's old nvidia gpu with the 5060 worked out mostly fine but I seem to have the blank screens on reboot problem that requires a VBIOS/firmware update. Issue is I cannot run the tool or ASUS's tool because both are made for windows. Is there a recommended way to fix this issue in linux? I found some references to a tool called "nvflash" but there's many sources with that name and I am not confident to just try one. Also I'm not sure which VBIOS/firmware version I need. I spent hours at this point trying to find a way to temporarily have windows (windows live usb?) just to run one of these tools but I cannot find a way that works for that either, outside of installing windows over my bazzite install. Any suggestions welcome.

I spent about 2 days and all night with Google AI trying to get this highly recommended NVIDIA RTX 5050 card installed so I could use it with Blender and it finally gave up on me.
I have a Gateway PC.

It said that the card is "So new that the manufacturer hasn't come up with a working driver yet" and to check back in a few weeks maybe. Surely it can't be serious? How can NVIDIA sell graphics cards without a working driver. I spent over $200 on this card :(. Thank god I managed to get my system working again, it almost broke my Blender installation but found a workaround to get it back, but its as slow as ever. I'm stuck with this card and it refuses to run.

The Catch-22 is that it apparently will only run on the latest graphics driver that "just came out this week" but you can't install it with the graphics card inserted, and you can't install it with it not inserted. It freezes forever at loading Ramdisk. All the earlier drivers won't run it either. Wondering if anyone else has bought this card and if it worked.

Of course I have a older system, not incredibly old but dated. I wanted to upgrade my graphics card instead of buying a whole new PC. Thats where spending $200 sounded smart to avoid spending a lot more on a new PC right. Its hugely disappointing. Thanks for any help or experiences.