“Bricked” GeForce RTX 5090 (D): PCIe 5.0 Black screen triggered on driver installation 41 Comments
Over the weekend, users reported that the GEFORCE RTX 5090 (or D for China) was no longer recognized by the system after initial driver installation. The screen remained black, neither BIOS nor windows would have recognized the Blackwell GPU when accessed via an IGPU. PCI 5.0 is believed to be the cause.
Error reporting with focus on Asia
For the first time, error reports occurring in Asian forums had highlighted. The symptoms were still the same: even when first installing the driver, the image failed and this was the case even after a PC reset. If the computer was then booted into Windows or the BIOS via the IGPU, the NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 5090 (D) was not managed as a graphics card.
One anomaly: all affected systems should have PCI Express 5.0 for the X16 slot. Because there were reports previously about stability issues when using this new standard, the suspicion was that PCI Express 5.0 is or at least a cause. The GeForce-RTX-5000 series supports PCIe 5.0 for the first time from NVIDIA. So far, however, problems have been reported by Founders Edition, whose 3 PCB layout relies on internal riser cables; Custom designs with conventional PCBs are now also affected.
PCIe 4.0 instead of 5.0 helps
As a workaround, changing the PCI Express standard of the X16 slot, in which the Geforce sits, was proposed from PCIe 5.0 to PCIe 4.0 via bios-ets using the IGPU or another DGPU.
And this step would have been crowned with success by users. After the modification, the graphics card was recognized again and was able to boot into Windows with screen output. The driver installation was also completed successfully.
No statement from Nvidia yet
So far, Nvidia has not commented on the issue. To date, the forum issue on geforce.com has not been a striking topic.
The base of computers has not yet fallen during testing, but so far only AM5 boards with PCIe 5.0, although with various sets of chips (X670E, B650E, X870E) and CPU (Ryzen 7 9800x3d , Ryzen 7 7800x3d). Systems with an Intel platform have not yet been used in the editorial team.
Topics: GeForce GeForce RTX 50 GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia Nvidia Blackwell Graphics Cards Source: WCCFTech
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