Not lengthy after the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 hit the cabinets (and swiftly departed from them) quite a few discussion board and on-line group stories of black display screen points began showing. Fortunately, it appears like there’ll quickly be an official repair rolling out from Nvidia.
An Nvidia rep on Reddit says (through Videocardz): “For customers whose graphics card hasn’t acquired a VBIOS replace, they will set up the motive force that will likely be releasing later this week that applies the identical repair.”
The vBIOS replace in query, in the event you weren’t conscious, is one thing that may be already out there from totally different AIB producers. MSI, for example, has launched a vBIOS repair for the RTX 50-series black display screen downside which will be put in from the MSI Middle app. A vBIOS replace fiddles with the GPU firmware, which makes it a lower-level repair than a driver replace that makes adjustments on the software program stage.
It is due to this fact a little bit unusual that Nvidia suggests the motive force and vBIOS replace “applies the identical repair”, but it surely’s doable the identical repair will be tackled on totally different ranges or through totally different angles.
Regardless of the case, it’s going to hopefully make for a greater repair than the one our Dave found for the MSI RTX 5090 Suprim: to restrict the monitor refresh fee to 60 Hz and sport prefer it’s 2007 (sorry, 60 Hz avid gamers).
We now have flashed one of many BIOS chips on our Suprim card, and after a number of makes an attempt at getting the present launch drivers to recognise the cardboard, it’s now booting accurately and never displaying any of the earlier black display screen points we have been having. So, hooray, the nigh-on $3,000 card is useful nearly a month after launch.
There are nonetheless some funky issues occurring, comparable to 3DMark not with the ability to recognise the system, although that doubtless simply wants a post-vBIOS flash replace in order that it’s recognised by the software program.
To be clear, we nonetheless do not know what the underlying concern is that triggered all these black display screen points. There’s been stories of points being attributable to refresh fee, heavy GPU load, and multi-monitor setups (a typical trigger for points like these), however nothing confirmed. Hopefully Nvidia will provide some readability over what this repair is definitely doing over the approaching days and weeks.
Any repair is healthier than no repair, however (to state the plain) what’s higher than that will be no points to start with. That is very true for this RTX 50-series era which has to this point been mild (weightless, maybe) on inventory, seemingly beset by melting energy connectors, and in some instances even lacking ROPs.
I do know if I have been hitting refresh on almost-always-stockless retailer pages, getting fortunate and nabbing an RTX 5090 for doubtless properly over $2,000, having it delivered solely to find it has much less juice in it than marketed, after which worrying about its cable going up in flames, the least I would need is for it to truly work and never flip my monitor right into a pictureless void. I do not assume that is too choosy.
So hey, higher late than by no means. Hold a watch out for the most recent Nvidia drivers you probably have a 50-series card and do not have already got a vBIOS repair put in
