I can't be sure that buying a new GPU will solve the problem so that is at your own risk and expense... But such a new(er) GPU does support Nvidia's latest drivers. In fact I've been using a GT 1030 in recent months for my own Nvidia-related work in Ubuntu 20.10. And that card is roughly 7x more powerful than your current one. But I can't predict the future and can't guarantee you won't face new problems or the same problems.
I've just logged on again (it's Friday night here) to see what recent Ubuntu updates might have caused this issue... It can't be nvidia- graphics-drivers-340 because that's never changed. So perhaps it was a kernel update or xorg-server update. To test this properly, without buying anything, I suggest reinstalling Ubuntu with networking *disabled*, but the 3rd part components option *enabled*. That will give you a fresh Ubuntu system without any updates installed, and hopefully with nvidia-340 installed right from the beginning (it's included in the Ubuntu installer). If that works then we can figure out more easily what software updates (if any) have caused the problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1889541 Title: Booting Ubuntu with Nvidia-340 gets stuck on a plain purple screen To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-340/+bug/1889541/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
