Wednesday, February 26th 2025
NVIDIA Ready with GeForce RTX 50-series Black Screen Issue Fix
Late last week, we reported that NVIDIA is investigating a software-level bug with certain GeForce RTX 50-series "Blackwell" graphics cards exhibiting black screen and BSOD errors. The black screens appear at random, there's no set way to reproduce to cause for the bug. The display head goes black, and sometimes the OS could even run into a bluescreen of death (BSOD) halt. NVIDIA earlier this week released a video BIOS update through its add-in card (AIC) partners, which should be distributed in the support sections of the brand websites. For those without such a VBIOS update, NVIDIA says that later this week, the company will release a GeForce Game Ready driver update that applies the same VBIOS update.
Sources:
GeForce (Reddit Community), VideoCardz
13 Comments on NVIDIA Ready with GeForce RTX 50-series Black Screen Issue Fix
I also don't really see them being specific what really caused the issue to begin with? :S
@W1zzard
Will TechPowerup have these updated VBIOS files that fix our "mysterious" issue?
And kudos to the customers and media that reported the black screens so a fix could come so fast.
When BSOD happens the Windows operating system creates a Minidump file before shutting down the system.
Next, a Software Engineer could use a very simple utility BlueScreenView ( I use v1.55 ) to analyze what DLL was the last one that caused BSOD.
If NVIDIA software engineers did not request Minidump files from users, this is absolutely irresponsible and, of course, it is not possible to do anything to resolve the problem.