NVIDIA Examines Black Screen and BSOD Problems with the GeForce RTX 50 Series “Blackwell”
The issues with NVIDIA’s most recent flagship RTX 50 series “Blackwell” GPUs are still present. Melting power cables were the first problem, followed by stability problems and, most recently, the instance of missing ROPs. We received confirmation today that NVIDIA is looking into users who have been having serious stability difficulties. Since the release of the dedicated 572 driver branch, there have been numerous reports of system crashes and black screen problems. Users of the RTX 50 series are especially impacted because there are no alternate drivers for their hardware, unlike owners of cards from earlier generations who can revert to reliable drivers. The issues affect all models in the RTX 50 series, including the 5090, 5080, and the recently revealed 5070 Ti. Some users have encountered blue screen of death (BSOD) faults during regular usage, while others have reported problems ranging from display flickering to total system failures.
When utilizing sophisticated features like DLSS 4 frame creation, the situation becomes very troublesome. Manuel, an NVIDIA employee, recently responded to similar worries on the GeForce Forums, stating that the company is looking into the issues. According to preliminary research, the problems may go beyond driver software and may necessitate VBIOS updates in order to completely fix the stability concerns. Reducing PCIe speeds below Gen 5 or display refresh rates to 60 Hz has provided some users with short-term respite, which may indicate firmware-level compatibility problems. Nevertheless, not all impacted users will find these workarounds to be effective. Despite adding support for the RTX 5070 Ti, the most recent driver version (572.47) did not resolve these serious stability problems, and it only fixed one bug pertaining to monitor wake-up from sleep mode. Many RTX 50 series early adopters are now dissatisfied with their expensive hardware purchases as a result of this.
