Nvidia is 'investigating the reported issues with the RTX 50-series' cards after RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 owners (and some RTX 40-series folk) report black screen problems

pcgamer.com:

We've been tracking reports of problems with Nvidia's new RTX 50-series GPUs for a little while, but they now seem to be hitting critical mass. It seems numerous owners of the new RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 cards are suffering crashes and particularly black screens, with a few arguably less substantiated reports of «bricked» cards, too. We've asked Nvidia about the problems and have been told that it is currently «investigating the reported issues with the RTX 50-series.»

As ever with an emerging issue, the current situation looks complex. Most commonly, RTX 50-series owners are reporting black screen problems. The scenarios under which this occurs vary. Some say it's happening when switching resolutions or refresh rates. Others are finding the black screen hits under heavy load, while yet others associate it with multi-monitor setups.

Some users then find the problem persists on hard reboot, with the card not detected in device manager or system BIOS, while for others it's seeming more intermittent with a reboot restoring functionality for a time before the black screen hits again. Like we said, it's complicated.

Now, we should presage all this by saying that we've had very few issues with our RTX 5080 and 5090 boards thus far. We've experienced a couple of crashes when alt-tabbing in and out of games to access various benchmark and capture tools, but nothing at all persistent that remained after rebooting. Essentially, we have no direct experience of these reported black screen problems even when overclocking the RTX 5080 to within an inch of its silicon life.

However, we've been fastidious about full driver cleans before installation. Hold that thought, it's important. Anyway, as we write these words, the number of users reporting problems across platforms including Nvidia's own forum (one example of many here) and Reddit (ditto, here) has gone well beyond a few isolated and anecdotal incidents.

Likewise, numerous YouTube videos either reporting or having directly