Facepalm: The black screen and system instability woes have been raging for some time now not just on the RTX 50 series, but also on some 40- and 30-series cards. Nvidia first acknowledged the problems over a week ago following the 572.16 driver release, but a fix is still nowhere in sight. The latest statement on the issue came from an Nvidia staff member named Manuel in the GeForce driver feedback thread. Manuel says that they're still investigating whether the issues will require a driver update or a straight VBIOS flash for the RTX 50 cards.The problems appear to have started when Nvidia's latest 570 driver branch first launched. Issues range from minor stuttering and crashes in games to full-blown blue screens of death. While the RTX 50 series seems to be bearing the brunt, a few 40- and 30-series owners are reporting similar woes after updating.Adding to frustrations, the latest 572.47 drivers that added support for the RTX 5070 Ti arrived with a paltry set of bug fixes. It contained only a single fix relating to display stability after waking from sleep mode.Some users have managed to temporarily work around the problem by capping the display refresh rate to a lowly 60Hz, which is just sad for these monstrous GPUs. Others have reported that downgrading to PCIe 4.0 has also helped.As for the cause, the jury is still out, but it likely boils down to a combination of shoddy drivers and potential firmware bugs in the new RTX 50 silicon. Some have theorized that the PCIe 5.0 implementation could be the culprit, which would necessitate a VBIOS update from Nvidia. // Related StoriesAll this is far from ideal considering the ongoing price and availability situation surrounding these GPUs. Finding the cards in stock continues to be a battle.This isn't the sole problem affecting the new lineup either. Team Green has had a bit of a rocky road with Blackwell so far, with problems ranging from melting power connectors to GPUs shipping with fewer ROP units than advertised.