Machine pauses on reboot after installing nvidia 1060

[strider3700]

My machine seems to freeze on reboot for about 25 seconds ever since I installed a 1060 and the proprietary drivers. checking dmesg I see

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[    3.485546] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card2/input22
[    3.659872] NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
[    3.659874] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
[    3.659875] NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
[    3.659876] NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
[    3.659877] NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
[   28.106118] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [nvidia-smi:669]
[   28.106147] Modules linked in: nvidia_uvm(POE) mxm_wmi nvidia_drm(POE) nvidia_modeset(POE) intel_rapl x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp nvidia(POE) crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul joydev input_leds ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel aes_x86_64 lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd serio_raw snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic lpc_ich mei_me snd_soc_rt5640 mei snd_soc_ssm4567 snd_soc_rl6231 shpchp snd_hda_intel snd_soc_core snd_hda_codec snd_compress snd_hda_core ac97_bus snd_hwdep snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_timer snd elan_i2c soundcore wmi i2c_designware_platform i2c_designware_core snd_soc_sst_acpi dw_dmac 8250_dw dw_dmac_core acpi_pad spi_pxa2xx_platform mac_hid kvm_intel kvm irqbypass

google suggested that the initial message about your system is not currently configured to drive a vga console isn't a serious issue. The soft lockup is likely to be the issue but I can't figure out what actually causes it or how to fix it. I had been running the nvidia-367 drivers but recently updated to nvidia-370. That made no difference. Beyond that I'm running 18.1 completely up to date. The machine seems to run fine other than this pause at reboot.

Any assistance would be appreciated.