Not long after the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 hit the shelves (and swiftly departed from them) numerous forum and online community reports of black screen issues started appearing.
Thankfully, it looks like there will soon be an official fix rolling out from Nvidia. An Nvidia rep on Reddit says (via Videocardz): «For users whose graphics card hasn't received a VBIOS update, they can install the driver that will be releasing later this week that applies the same fix.» The vBIOS update in question, if you weren't aware, is something that might be already available from different AIB manufacturers.
MSI, for instance, has released a vBIOS fix for the RTX 50-series black screen problem which can be installed from the MSI Center app.
A vBIOS update fiddles with the GPU firmware, which makes it a lower-level fix than a driver update that makes changes on the software level.
It's therefore a little strange that Nvidia suggests the driver and vBIOS update «applies the same fix», but it's possible the same fix can be tackled on different levels or via different angles.