- Nvidia’s GPUs are going through one other bug inflicting black display screen crashes
- This impacts RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs and received’t allow you to boot to the desktop
- Nvidia has a repair handy, however making use of it could possibly be a considerably tough matter for some people – although the affect of this bug isn’t widespread, apparently
Nvidia has launched a repair for house owners of RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti graphics playing cards who’re seeing their PC boot to a black display screen.
This can be a nasty drawback, after all, leaving these affected unable to make use of their PC except they’ve a way of getting across the black display screen that’s presenting itself and bringing the boot course of to a screeching halt, as a substitute of permitting folks to get to their desktop.
VideoCardz highlighted Nvidia’s affirmation of this drawback in a assist doc which additionally offers a device to treatment the showstopping bug, particularly the Nvidia GPU UEFI Firmware Replace Device v2.0.
Nvidia makes it very clear that this patch – which is an replace for the motherboard BIOS – ought to solely be put in by those that are encountering black display screen woes. In the event you aren’t affected by this problem, don’t seize this device.
In fact, there’s a slight drawback when it comes to downloading and utilizing the device on a PC with this bug, provided that as talked about, you seemingly can’t get to the desktop within the first place.
Not with a standard boot, anyway, which is why Nvidia offers a listing of workarounds to get your PC booted in its assist materials. That features heading into the BIOS (which you are able to do earlier than your PC begins in addition, following the directions offered along with your laptop or motherboard) and guaranteeing you might be in UEFI boot mode and never Legacy/CSM mode.
That’s as a result of the latter may cause the black display screen drawback, however do word that some (older) PCs might not have a UEFI possibility, by which case, Nvidia advises you to “contact customer support of your graphics card producer for a legacy VBIOS replace.” (Not that means Nvidia itself, after all, however the maker of your board, equivalent to Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and so forth).
The opposite fundamental trick that ought to work to get to the desktop is in case you have built-in graphics (in your processor), you could possibly swap to make use of that (within the BIOS graphics settings) as a substitute of your Nvidia GPU. Or in case your CPU doesn’t have built-in graphics, you could possibly use an one other (outdated or borrowed) Nvidia GPU in your PC quickly.
Evaluation: A irritating problem with restricted affect
This can be a knotty drawback, then, or it could possibly be in some situations, probably requiring a little bit of fiddling round to get to a spot the place you may set up the patch to resolve it.
That’s removed from preferrred, however the excellent news is that there don’t appear to be many avid gamers affected by this bug, as VideoCardz factors out. That’s comforting to listen to in some methods – even when it might partially be a mirrored image of the dearth of recognition of the RTX 5060 specifically for varied causes – however clearly some GPU house owners will likely be hit by this snag, in any other case Nvidia wouldn’t be bothering with a patch to treatment it.
Sadly, Nvidia graphics card house owners have been going through black display screen points from boot, or black display screen lock-ups throughout on a regular basis use or gaming, ever since new GeForce drivers had been launched with assist for Blackwell GPUs. And that doesn’t simply lengthen to these RTX 5000 graphics playing cards, both, however RTX 4000 fashions have been affected too (and even the era earlier than that in a scattering of reported instances).
In brief, there’s been a normal wonkiness with Nvidia’s graphics drivers for the reason that RTX 5000 sequence arrived, and that is the newest episode. All in all, it’s not search for Group Inexperienced.