- NVIDIA GPUs face another bug causing black screen accidents
- This affects RTX 5060 and 5060 GPUs and will not let you start on the desktop
- Nvidia has a hand correction, but applying it could be a somewhat delicate question for some people – although the impact of this bug is not widespread, apparently
NVIDIA has published a corrective for owners of RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 graphics cards who see their PC Start on a black screen.
This is an unpleasant problem, of course, letting people affected unable to use their PC unless they have a way to move around the black screen that arises and put the start -up process to an emergency stop, instead of allowing people to go to their desk.
Videocardz highlighted NVIDIA confirmation of this problem in an assistance document which also provides a tool to cure the bug showstopping, namely the UEFI V2.0 firmware update.
NVIDIA very clearly indicates that this correction – which is an update for the bios of the motherboard – should only be installed by those who encounter black screen problems. If you are not affected by this problem, do not take this tool.
Of course, there is a slight problem in terms of download and use of the tool on a PC with this bug, since, as mentioned, you cannot go to the office in the first place.
Not with a normal boot, in any case, which is why Nvidia provides a list of bypass to start your PC in its support equipment. This includes heading to the BIOS (which you can do before your PC starts to start, following the instructions provided with your computer or motherboard) and make sure you are in UEFI start -up mode and not in heritage / CSM mode.
Indeed, the latter can cause the problem of the black screen, but note that some PCs (older) may not have an UEFI option, in which case, NVIDIA advises you to “contact the customer service of your graphics card manufacturer for an inherited VBIOS update”. (Do not signify Nvidia herself, of course, but the manufacturer of your board of directors, like Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and so on).
The other main tip that should work to access the office is that if you have integrated graphics (on your processor), you can change to use it (in the BIOS graphic settings) instead of your NVIDIA GPU. Or if your CPU has no integrated graphics, you can use another NVIDIA GPU (old or borrowed) in your PC temporarily.
Analysis: a frustrating problem with a limited impact
It is therefore a knotty problem, or it could be in certain scenarios, which potentially requires a little fiddling to reach a place where you can install the patch to solve it.
It is far from ideal, but the good news is that there do not seem to be many players affected by this bug, as Videocardz points out. It is comforting to hear in some respects – even if it can be partly reflecting the lack of popularity of RTX 5060 in particular for various reasons – but clearly some GPU owners will be struck by this problem, otherwise Nvidia would not care about a patch to cure it.
Unfortunately, the owners of NVIDIA graphics cards have been faced with black boot screen problems, or black screen locking during use or daily game, since new GeForce pilots have been published with the support for Blackwell GPUs. And that does not only extend to these RTX 5000 graphics cards, but the RTX 4000 models have also been assigned (or even the generation before that in a dissemination of the reported cases).
In short, there was a general Wonkiness with Nvidia’s graphic pilots when the RTX 5000 series arrived, and this is the last episode. Overall, it’s not a good look for Team Green.
