News Nvidia confirms it is investigating RTX 50-series BSOD and black screen troubles, no timeline for a fix

[Admin]

An Nvidia staff member confirmed the company is still investigating RTX 50 series crashes and black screens. The staff member clarified fixes might come in the form of driver updates or VBIOS updates.

Nvidia confirms it is investigating RTX 50-series BSOD and black screen troubles, no timeline for a fix : Read more

 

[thisisaname]

Given the low stock available at launch there will not be very many to replace.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

For $2000 MSRP, I would expect any piece of computer hardware to be rock solid and problem free.

Crashing, burning, and missing pieces is unbelievable.

 

[Kentmos]

They look into only this?? What about the shitty 12VHPWR connector that keeps burning (and will continue to do so!), and the missing ROPs??

CALS should be in order here..

 

[Amdlova]

For $2000 MSRP, I would expect any piece of computer hardware to be rock solid and problem free.

Crashing, burning, and missing pieces is unbelievable.

It's a gaming card who brought first is only a beta tester. If you want a trusted device and drivers you need to get workstation graphics.
Certified hardware is expansive as hell...

 

[txfeinbergs]

For $2000 MSRP, I would expect any piece of computer hardware to be rock solid and problem free.

Crashing, burning, and missing pieces is unbelievable.

If you expect that, then you shouldn't buy cutting edge HW when it first comes out. Probably stay away from games too when they first release. That said, yes, you shouldn't expect a product that is completely unusable, missing components, and catches on fire.

 

[Devoteicon]

I feel bad for the tens of people this is effecting.

 

[Alex/AT]

It's a gaming card who brought first is only a beta tester. If you want a trusted device and drivers you need to get workstation graphics.
Certified hardware is expansive as hell...

Yeah, or just an AMD card. Yes, it would be a bit lower in performance, sadly AMD stopped releasing top grade cards. I got lucky with 4090 last time - and had just mere tolerable issues of terrible drivers (which never was the case with AMD) and lacky multi-monitor support (which is always never the case with AMD), but no, my next one would be lower grade but AMD card again. From nV, I touched 5200, GTX 570 and now 4090. All cards were good for times, but everytime the drivers were absolute mess. On the contrary, no one AMD card - and I had many - had that number of driver/stability issues. Yes, there were numerous (not overwhelming number) major bugs in beta and not driver releases, but they got fixed rather quickly. Yes, they all were slower than top nV cards of the time. But they were totally usable. I still can't call 4090 totally usable as it has numerous FPS loss issues, some browser rendering issues requiring restart of video driver, huge multimonitor issues (yeah it can't do 8K + 3x4K which AMD did just great), DSC disables DLDSR, DSC disables ability of tweaking EDID, some games have weird shadowing issues in the latest drivers (year old 537.58 is still the most solid one), and so on. Should be renamed to BetaForce 4090. In the end, for this card I'm satisfied with the performance, but totally not satisfied with the product, and that matters.

 

[CaptRiker]

it's things like these why I switched over to studio drivers years ago. studio drivers do not get updated alot and also get all the bug fixes from the game rdy drivers. studio drivers are usually WAY more stable then game ready.

 

[jkhoward]

Hmm.. and here I am thinking my 4060M GPU was dying on me. Mad stutters every 30s or so, then back to normal. I’ll try downgrading.

 

[VizzieTheViz]

Yeah but you have to get a NVidia card because AMD driver are always so horrible. Just goes to show issues with drivers can happen with whatever brand you pick.

 

[Notton]

I highly doubt a VBIOS or driver update would fix the missing ROPs because nvidia fuses off hardware at the silicon level. The card would have to be clocked higher to make up the difference, but the silicon isn't a golden sample and less likely to OC as well.

What I find weird is why only the ROPs. Usually more parts are fused off.
If I were to give nvidia the benefit of the doubt, it seems like someone accidentally mixed the bins of good and intermediate parts.
If I were less generous, I'd say they have some serious yield issues and hoped no one would notice.

 

[Amdlova]

I think it's not a driver problem anymore... It's a windows problem from W7 to W10 some problems but W10 to W11 the mess started.
Every time I have installed windows W11 on my machine I got some weird problem.
One I have IT's my monitor can't go back from energy save state. Need to Unplug the power or the displayport to get the monitor working again.
It happens with Nvidia, Amd or Intel graphics.
Maybe it's my Asrock monitor, But happens on W11

 

[tamalero]

If you expect that, then you shouldn't buy cutting edge HW when it first comes out. Probably stay away from games too when they first release. That said, yes, you shouldn't expect a product that is completely unusable, missing components, and catches on fire.

It's a gaming card who brought first is only a beta tester. If you want a trusted device and drivers you need to get workstation graphics.
Certified hardware is expansive as hell...

It's impressive how some individuals just outright blame the customer instead of the company delivering the shoddy and failing product.

 

[bolweval]

Kinda hard to update the BIOS if you can't see the screen...

 

[ezst036]

An Nvidia staff member confirmed the company is still investigating RTX 50 series crashes and black screens.

Why aren't they investigating melting cables?

 

[txfeinbergs]

It's impressive how some individuals just outright blame the customer instead of the company delivering the shoddy and failing product.

Except I didn't blame the customer at all other than having unrealistic expectations.

 

[SSGBryan]

If you expect that, then you shouldn't buy cutting edge HW when it first comes out. Probably stay away from games too when they first release. That said, yes, you shouldn't expect a product that is completely unusable, missing components, and catches on fire.

That is really good advice. I am still on AM4 because the platform upgrade cost is still over $750 - assuming I can find the equivalent motherboard, which still hasn't shown up yet (WS X570-ACE).

Always stay 1 generation behind & wait for the "game of the year" version of games.

Save a lot of money, and let other people be the beta testers.

 

[systemBuilder_49]

This time around I'm buying the card that has stable drivers for Valorant and other popular titles and doesnt catch fire and this time around, its AMD, not NVidia ... AMD = Absolutely Magnificent Drivers ...

 

[tamalero]

Except I didn't blame the customer at all other than having unrealistic expectations.

having a product work with no issues is having unrealistic expectations?

 

[txfeinbergs]

Yers, i

having a product work with no issues is having unrealistic expectations?

Yes it is.

 

[tamalero]

Yers, i

Yes it is.

I see someone who likes to clean boots.

 

[txfeinbergs]

I see someone who likes to clean boots.

I see someone that lives in a world of unicorns and rainbows.

 

[mgaissert]

An Nvidia staff member confirmed the company is still investigating RTX 50 series crashes and black screens. The staff member clarified fixes might come in the form of driver updates or VBIOS updates.

Nvidia confirms it is investigating RTX 50-series BSOD and black screen troubles, no timeline for a fix : Read more

Heck! I have been having blue screen crashes since I bought my Dell Inspiron 7610 laptop with a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU a couple years ago. Now I finally know what is the problem. How do I turn the damn thing off until there is fix? This week it crashed so badly that even Dell's special software could not repair it. I had to use a back up image that I had made last year...