NVIDIA Ready with GeForce RTX 50-series Black Screen Issue Fix

btarunr · 2025-02-26T11:09:00+0000

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.

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Legacy-ZA · 2025-02-26T11:22:37+0000

Ehehehe; do we trust them with doing a VBIOS update for us via their drivers?

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?

Daven · 2025-02-26T11:46:57+0000

It’s good to see Nvidia react so quickly to driver/vbios issues. Like AMD and Intel, all GPU providers have good drivers that occasionally need bug fixes. Nvidia and AMD have had good drivers for over a decade. Intel had massive problems at launch but fixed the issues for the most part.

And kudos to the customers and media that reported the black screens so a fix could come so fast.

mb194dc · 2025-02-26T11:47:57+0000

Another day on the unpaid QA team for early adopters...

Am* · 2025-02-26T12:04:06+0000

At this point, I don't trust Ngreedia not to cut corners and try to scam people again -- especially after knowingly shipping defective GPUs with missing ROPs. I'm curious if this VBIOS update or a future one will re-enable the missing ROPs to show up again in GPU-Z on those "defective" variants, but simply stop them from working? Tonnes of scammers on Chinese sites will fake or mask the specs of the old repurposed GPUs by messing with the VBIOS and Nvidia definitely has the means to do the same thing.

azrael · 2025-02-26T12:07:43+0000

Legacy-ZA said:
Ehehehe; do we trust them with doing a VBIOS update for us via their drivers?
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 of course the ever lingering question: Will it affect performance?

DeathtoGnomes · 2025-02-26T12:29:55+0000

"Lets use some glue and throw it at the wall and see what sticks".

If they cant reproduce the error, this is what is said.

tpa-pr · 2025-02-26T12:31:48+0000

Could someone with Nvidia knowledge explain how the driver-level vBIOS update works? Is it similar to CPU microcode delivered through the kernel in that it monkey patches every time the card is powered on or does it actually flash the onboard (I presume) ROM?

Visible Noise · 2025-02-26T13:06:44+0000

Nothing burger as expected.

sethmatrix7 · 2025-02-26T13:09:49+0000

azrael said:
And of course the ever lingering question: Will it affect performance?

Maybe they'll hide how many ROPs are detected

ScaLibBDP · 2025-02-26T13:31:55+0000

>>...The black screens appear at random, there's no set way to reproduce to cause for the bug...

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.

Mr. Perfect · 2025-02-26T14:20:53+0000

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.

Wait, does the driver update the card's BIOS? Or does it apply a similar fix at the driver level? I can't remember the last time a driver updated a BIOS.

Vayra86 · 2025-02-26T14:54:01+0000

mb194dc said:
Another day on the unpaid QA team for early adopters...

Unpaid? The QA team's definitely paying! :roll:

Solaris17 · 2025-02-26T15:28:32+0000

Mr. Perfect said:
Wait, does the driver update the card's BIOS? Or does it apply a similar fix at the driver level? I can't remember the last time a driver updated a BIOS.

Arc cards do this with every driver. Nvidia has traditionally like OEMs provided a standalone exe though. I imagine it isn’t difficult to add it to the driver. Even if they wanted to do it the basic way like including said stand alone executable and just making it a new phase in the installer.

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NVIDIA Ready with GeForce RTX 50-series Black Screen Issue Fix

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