EndeavourOS fails to boot - Stuck at blinking cursor

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You need to have nvidia-installer-dkms installed first if it’s not to install nvidia. So if it’s not installed then.

sudo pacman -S nvidia-installer-dkms

Then what i would do is install the nvidia drivers with the installer.

sudo nvidia-installer-dkms

Once the install is completely finished don’t reboot.

Now you want to add all the enhancements as per the wiki.

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

add this to the default grub command line

nvidia-drm.modeset=1

Looks like this as an example:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nvidia-drm.modeset=1 resume=UUID=...

Then save the file

ctrl + o then enter to save
ctrl + x to exit nano

Then run

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Then

sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

add this to MODULES =

MODULES="nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm"

ctrl + o then enter to save
ctrl + x to exit nano

Then run

sudo mkinitcpio -P

Then

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

add this to the file so it is the same

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Nvidia Card"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "NoLogo" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "nvidia"
        Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"
        Option          "TripleBuffer"                  "on"
        Option          "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol"      "off"
EndSection

ctrl + o then enter to save
ctrl + x to exit nano

Then install the hooks package

sudo pacman -S nvidia-hook

reboot

Edit Your card should be supported by the current nvidia drivers.

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