Blackscreens in general

[jollyjack]

A friend and i had blackscreens on PC startup.  Not always. 

Both have NVIDIA RTX GPUs with 2 or more monitors attached. 

My friend has a big TV screen, and two small 8 inch ones, and blames it the little ones cannot run at 60 Hz refresh rate, but some where about 60.8 Hz (higher). The fix seems to set all monitors at the same refresh rate (60Hz)

 

I had those blackscreens for a bout 3 seconds a few times but only after bootup.

In my case i think it now was a loose connector inside my 10 years old second monitor: took it apart and cleaned all with some contact spray.

All seemed to work OK since, but i already bought an other monitor and now also swapped my NVIDIA RTX for a 9070 XT Radeon.

 

However there also seems to be a general NVIDIA RTX only issue with blackscreens and windows 11. 

The weird thing is that only a few have them, all over the RTX range, and seemingly not related to other hardware like a motherboards, DIMMs etc.

NVIDIA forums are all over with tips and tricks, but every one i tried did not work. 

 

Games like IL2 and DCS use quite some GPU power, make sure your Power supply van handle the top range CPUs.

Dust in your PCI slot for the GPU ? 

Edited November 5 by jollyjack

[dryheat94]

There are a lot of issues with the Nvidia drivers since the 50 series came out. If you're running anything less than a 50 series you should stick with driver version 566.36 until Nvidia solves all these issues. Use DDU to uninstall current driver in safe mode, then install 566.36. 

 

You can read more about the many issues here.
 

Nvidia 566.36

 

DDU

 

How to start in safe mode

 

 

Edited November 5 by dryheat94

[jollyjack]

Thanks, tried all that, my personal fix was for a 4080s RTX setup fixing a flatcable conector in one monitor internally, and setting both to 60Hz refresh rate.

A pal with a 5090 bought new 8 inch side kick monitors and set all to 60hz.

Edited November 9 by jollyjack