NVIDIA Issues vBIOS Update to Fix RTX 5060 (Ti) Reboot Black Screens

[AleksandarK]

NVIDIA has quietly released a firmware patch for its GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards to fix a frustrating blank-screen issue that appears when users restart their systems. Interestingly, this reboot glitch affects only the RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti models built on NVIDIA's GB206 silicon. Other RTX 50-series cards and the older RTX 20, RTX 30, and RTX 40 generations do not show this behavior. While NVIDIA has not revealed exactly what went wrong, providing a vBIOS patch suggests the issue lies in its own firmware code. This update is delivered as a vBIOS upgrade rather than a traditional driver, and it must be applied manually using NVIDIA's new GPU UEFI Firmware Update Tool v2.0. The problem seems to come from the way the RTX 5060 series vBIOS communicates with certain motherboard BIOS or UEFI implementations.

On systems booting in Legacy (CSM) mode or those lacking full UEFI support, users sometimes encounter a black screen on reboot even if the operating system and drivers are correctly installed. NVIDIA's utility first checks if you need the update, then walks you through the flashing process step by step. Because flashing firmware always carries some risk, especially if your power goes out mid-update, NVIDIA recommends that only those experiencing blank screens should proceed. Before you start, power down your PC completely, make sure you have the latest BIOS from your motherboard maker and switch to UEFI boot mode. If you still cannot get any display, try plugging it into your integrated graphics or a second GPU so you can run the update tool. After closing all your applications and pausing any pending OS updates, follow the on-screen prompts to apply the vBIOS fix. If your motherboard does not support UEFI mode, contact your graphics card vendor for a legacy firmware version.



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[Rightness_1]

Looks like the search for greed has finally caught up with nGreedia, I've never seen such incompetence from them before. They really couldn't care less about this market anymore.

1.) Unstable drivers since the launch, and there are still issues.
2.) Nvidia App also causing issues and crashing
3.) Display connectivity problems
4.) 12VHP burning up and nearly the whole tech sphere and nVidia is gaslighting customers about it to this day
5.) Missing ROPs across multiple SKU's.
6.) Market manipulation

 

[Space Lynx]

all that AI money and still can't have a decent quality control department, capitalism is neat.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Yes, this is their most disastrous video card launch from their history by far. They failed completelly with the drivers, BIOSes, and I wonder if even there isn't an underlying hardware issues with those cards.
Is ridiculous how I can only use drivers from December last year that are not crashing the games as often as the newest ones. If AMD was atrocious with their drivers a decade ago, now this changed, and changed by a lot. I never seen video drivers so bad in my entire life, and I'm gaming since S3 Trio 64 V+ times.

 

[wolf]

I feel so lucky to have escaped literally every single issue this gen so far except one bug related to overclocking which was fixed in about a week.

Either I'm extremely lucky or the issues are overblown and exaggerated... I wonder which one it could be.

 

[cyberloner]

they really don't care about gamer now xD

 

[Prima.Vera]

I feel so lucky to have escaped literally every single issue this gen so far except one bug related to overclocking which was fixed in about a week.

Either I'm extremely lucky or the issues are overblown and exaggerated... I wonder which one it could be.

Which games are you playing that you have no issues??

 

[Rightness_1]

Which games are you playing that you have no issues??

It's all made up, apparently...

 

[wolf]

Which games are you playing that you have no issues??

I don't play any that have had issues at all.

The single oc issue I had was on reboot it seemed to subtract my +350 oc rather than add it, and that was fixed months ago. Hard to be annoyed given I was using 3rd party tools to do it, but nonetheless a driver fixed it.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

I feel so lucky to have escaped literally every single issue this gen so far except one bug related to overclocking which was fixed in about a week.

Either I'm extremely lucky or the issues are overblown and exaggerated... I wonder which one it could be.

I have had a very few issues myself, and they were game related/latency/stutter. I think it has a lot to do with that I am still running on the old AM4 architecture and the fact that I chose the 5070Ti for the reason, that it uses 300W or below, no fires for me. Sure, I can get a easy +20-25FPS (game depending) if I upgrade my CPU, but it still has enough left in the tank.

Lot of people having issues are those on newer architecture (ironic) or multi/new-monitor setups. I also think a lot of people don't know that, if their monitors fall out of the their refresh rate range with g-sync enabled, that their displays will flicker/turn black etc.

nGreedia has their hands full.

 

[wolf]

It's all made up, apparently...

I never said it was all made up, I said I didn't have those issues and that (by nature of the way compalints work) they could be exaggerated and overblown. Does every driver issue we've heard of affect ever user? Of course not, in fact statistically far from it.

 

[nguyen]

I have had my 5090 for a few days now and must say it's even more stable than my old 4090, particularly with media playback (viewing multiple video with ICAT to compare image quality was always sluggish with 4090).

Never experienced any black screen, stutter, power cable issue (even got per-pin power display on Afterburner OSD to look like a Pro ).

Only took me a few hours to set up the undervolt because Blackwell clock gen is weird, other than that I can enjoy this card for the next 2 year without the need to tinker with anything.

 

[wolf]

nGreedia

You had me right up till that word haha. Sucks to hear you had issues though, I moved to AM5 / 9800X3D before I received the new card as a gift.

 

[RejZoR]

Lol, even GeForce FX disaster seems timid compared to this trainwreck. GeForce FX just had the wrong kind of design for how games were developed and performed poorly in games at that time. This here for RTX 5000 series is just pure incompetence and giving zero F's all in one because they are oozing Ai money out of their wazoo. I'm also glad I bought Radeon RX 9000 series this time around. Great card.

 

[Quicks]

Meh, another day, another Nvidia failure. Becoming so common now it not even news worthy anymore.

They really need to overall their driver, firmware and App department.

 

[Rightness_1]

Meh, another day, another Nvidia failure. Becoming so common now it not even news worthy anymore.

They really need to overall their driver, firmware and App department.

Do you remeber about 3 years ago that NV said that A.I. would write their driver better than they could, and that they would start making the driver using A.I.?

Yep, another lie.

 

[docnorth]

I'll just repeat my comment, business as usual...

 

[RejZoR]

Do you remeber about 3 years ago that NV said that A.I. would write their driver better than they could, and that they would start making the driver using A.I.?

Yep, another lie.

Maybe it wasn't a lie and Ai is writing drivers, it's why they are so broken...

 

[_roman_]

My second hand MSI 960 GTX something bought second hand and sold second hand in year 2023 had also massive display re-initialisation issues in windows. Long term problem and not a short term nvidia and windows only problem.

Note: 2023 this was a supported card by the last drivers. I tested such card on purpose to see if it fits my needs for several months. I doubt this has improved since 2023 with windows and nvidia based graphic cards.

Sometimes it was smarter to buy a nvidia 4090 early at release. For driver quality even 1.5 year later it was a mess for several products these days, e.g. ASUS x670-am5.

#7) Marketing - and all it promises. Regardless if they exists or not. E.g. raytracing, no lag, and so on - feel free to get your own opinion. Cards beeing 5 times faster as nvidia 4090 something, ...

#8) Silent release of bugfixes / Be-Quiet about issues and problems

I saw it ages later that my nvidia 960 had a firmware tool. But the bug with windows was there, even after the firmware update with the nvidia itself downloaded from nvidia.com windows only firmware tool.

The windows and gnu userspace nvidia binary driver did not tell me / notify me / inform me that there is a newer firmware available for any of those 900 and 1000 graphic cards from nivdia itself.

This update is delivered as a vBIOS upgrade rather than a traditional driver, and it must be applied manually using NVIDIA's new GPU UEFI Firmware Update Tool v2.0. T

 

[vnl7]

I feel so lucky to have escaped literally every single issue this gen so far except one bug related to overclocking which was fixed in about a week.

Either I'm extremely lucky or the issues are overblown and exaggerated... I wonder which one it could be.

Me too. The only issues I have had are with USB on the AM5 platform. It continuously disconnects and reconnects my external Blu-ray drive.

 

[AGlezB]

It's all made up, apparently...

It can happen. Using a 5060 as a constant think about how many MB/RAM/CPU/monitor/res/refresh/OS/configuration combinations are out there. When you take everything into account every PC is unique and that's before even considering variations resulting of the manufacturing process, a.k.a. not every chip is made equal. Just by pure probabilities there should be a PC levitating somewhere.

 

[Prima.Vera]

I also think a lot of people don't know that, if their monitors fall out of the their refresh rate range with g-sync enabled, that their displays will flicker/turn black etc.

A lot of crashes are happening when I alt-tab to desktop. I tried to disabled G-Sync, but the micro-stuttering is too annoying, even on 100fps.
Disabling Resizable BAR also works in some games that are constant crashing.
All and all it seems that the main culprit are the drivers. Each version adds more and more issues than fixing them.

Just by pure probabilities there should be a PC levitating somewhere.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/15q01dn/worlds_first_levitating_pc_case_mod_part_31

 

[AGlezB]

A lot of crashes are happening when I alt-tab to desktop.

Are you playing borderless or exclusive full screen?
Exclusive doesn't like alt-tab when the rendering resolution is different from the desktop resolution. It's usually more a problem of the graphics engine than the driver, especially in non-UE games.

 

[Chrispy_]

Just when you think Nvidia couldn't screw up the 50 series more than they already have, there's some even worse news. I've lost track of how many insane blunders and bad PR moments they've had this year, and I'm sure we're not finished yet, either!

How this company can hold a majority of the marketshare is mind-boggling, it borders on corruption and manipulation when you consider the consoles that dominate the attention of game-developers have been running on AMD graphics since 2013.

 

[Rightness_1]

Maybe it wasn't a lie and Ai is writing drivers, it's why they are so broken...

I know NV. Jensen would have made a HUGE meal out of it to help sell even more of their A.I. crap.