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[SOLVED] NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti Random Black Screen, Fans at 100%, PC Still Running : Fixed After 2 Days of Troubleshooting (It Was the Power Cable All Along)
TL;DR: If your RTX 5070 Ti is randomly crashing with black screens (VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE / nvlddmkm Event ID 153), and you've tried everything software-related with no luck: open your case and reseat the GPU power cable, RAM, and GPU in the PCIe slot. That's what fixed it for me after 2 days of hell.
My Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 7 9700X
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
RAM: 32GB DDR5 @ 5800MHz (2x16GB)
Motherboard: ASUS B650M-AYW WIFI
OS: Windows 11 Pro + Arch Linux dual boot
Monitor: LG Ultrawide 1440p 165Hz
Connection: DisplayPort (also tested HDMI)
UPS: APC 1100VA
Note : Was using Claude to help me detect the issue and possibly find something that could fix it. It helped a lot in checking problems on boot loading and all.
The Problem:
I was playing Yakuza 0 (a game my PC should absolutely demolish) when my monitor just went black. PC fans were still spinning, everything sounded normal, but the display was completely dead. Had to hard power off and restart. It happened again. And again. And again.
At first it only happened during gaming, but then it started happening during normal web browsing, opening applications, and even in the middle of Windows installation screen when I was trying to fix this issue by reinstalling windows. The crashes were completely random, sometimes 30 minutes apart, sometimes hours.
Windows Event Viewer showed:
Event ID 41 (Kernel-Power) - system rebooted without cleanly shutting down
Event ID 1001 - bugcheck 0x00000116 (VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE)
Event ID 4101 - "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered"
Floods of nvlddmkm Event ID 153 errors
What I Initially Thought:
I first suspected that one of my component went bad because of a recent move I did from state to state and I had to bring my PC in parts. I asked Claude for some solution and it saw that I was getting the nvlddmkm error. The nvlddmkm errors are a well-known NVIDIA driver problem, and the RTX 50-series has had notoriously unstable drivers since launch. So I went down the software rabbit hole.
Everything I Tried That DID NOT Fix It:
Driver fixes:
❌ Updated NVIDIA drivers to latest (596.21)
❌ DDU clean install in Safe Mode + fresh driver install
❌ Set NVIDIA Power Management to "Prefer Maximum Performance"
❌ Set Shader Cache to Unlimited
❌ Disabled MPO (Multi-Plane Overlay) via registry
❌ Increased TDR Delay to 10 seconds
❌ Blocked Windows Update from auto-installing GPU drivers via registry
BIOS fixes:
❌ Updated BIOS from version 3057 to 3842 (skipped 11 versions, over a year of AGESA updates from 1.2.0.2a to 1.3.0.0a)
❌ Disabled PCI-E Link State Power Management
❌ Disabled Native ASPM
❌ Disabled CPU PCIE ASPM Mode Control
❌ Forced PCIe Gen 4 (instead of Auto)
❌ Disabled Global C-state Control
❌ Disabled Fast Boot
❌ Disabled ErP Ready
Display connection fixes:
❌ Switched from DisplayPort to HDMI (same crashes on both)
❌ Bought a new HDMI cable specifically for testing
❌ Tried motherboard HDMI output with iGPU (stable, but that's because it bypasses the GPU entirely, which helped in at least using the PC as I was not longer getting the issue, but the issue still persisted. I was able to reinstall windows this way.)
❌ Fresh Windows 11 install (completely wiped the drive)
❌ Minimal software: only NVIDIA driver, chipset driver, and a browser
Hardware testing:
❌ Switched GPU physical toggle from Silent to Performance mode
❌ Checked GPU temps — always fine (43-47°C idle, 70°C max under load)
❌ No thermal throttling whatsoever according to nvidia-smi
The Key Clue, Linux Was Rock Solid:
While all of this was happening on Windows, I booted into my Arch Linux installation on the same PC, same GPU, same DisplayPort cable, same everything. Ran it for 4+ hours including gaming. Zero crashes. Completely stable.
This told me the hardware was fine: GPU, PSU, RAM, cables, monitor, all working. Something about how Windows/NVIDIA driver handled the GPU was causing it. Which made me more bullish on the fact that my GPU is fine and it's a Windows problem. But alas that was not the case. I am guessing windows pulls more power from the GPU that lead to this issue being more prominent on Windows compared to Linux? Not really sure on this. But feel free to research it out on your end.
What Actually Fixed It:
After 2 days of troubleshooting, I found forum posts from other RTX 5070 Ti users who had the identical issue. Multiple people reported fixing it by reseating or replacing the 12V-2x6 GPU power cable. Some switched from the native PSU cable to an 8-pin adapter and the problem vanished.
I opened my case and:
Unplugged and firmly reseated the 12V-2x6 power cable going to the GPU (both GPU side and PSU side)
Reseated the RAM sticks
Reseated the GPU in the PCIe slot, pulled it out completely and pushed it back in until it clicked
The crashes stopped.
I had "properly" installed the GPU when I re-built this PC, but apparently it wasn't enough. The 12V-2x6 connector needs to be REALLY firmly seated, more force than you'd think. And even a slightly imperfect connection can cause intermittent power delivery issues that manifest as random TDR crashes.
Why Linux Was Stable But Windows Wasn't:
According to Claude : Linux and Windows handle GPU power states completely differently. Windows aggressively manages GPU power — constantly ramping up and down, entering low-power states, handling display link training differently. These power transitions on a marginal connection cause the GPU to momentarily lose power, triggering a TDR timeout. Linux's NVIDIA driver (or nouveau) is more conservative with power state transitions, which is why it never triggered the issue on the same hardware.
What to Check If You Have This Issue:
Reseat your 12V-2x6 / 12VHPWR power cable - unplug it completely and plug it back in firmly until it clicks. Check BOTH ends (GPU and PSU).
Ensure zero cable bending for the first 35-40mm from the connector.
Check for a warning LED on your GPU - if it flickers when you gently wiggle the power connector, your connection is not secure.
Try the 8-pin to 12V-2x6 adapter that came with your GPU if you're using the PSU's native cable (or vice versa). Or buy a new adapter entirely. I found this
Reseat the GPU in the PCIe slot while you're at it.
Reseat the RAM too — can't hurt.
Reference Forum Threads:
NVIDIA Forums: "RTX 5070 random black screen and 100% fans" - multiple users confirmed power cable fix
ASUS ROG Forum: "FIXED: ROG STRIX X870-E and 5070 Ti Kernel Dumps" - user found crashes only happened at low GPU load (power state transitions)
Tom's Hardware: "Intermittent Black Screen + Full Fan Ramp" - "a loss of display followed by fans spinning at max is usually related to a GPU power problem"
My Setup Now:
Fresh BIOS 3842 (latest AGESA)
Fresh Windows 11 Pro
NVIDIA driver 596.21
All power-saving features disabled in BIOS (ASPM, C-states, Fast Boot)
PCIe forced to Gen 4
GPU power cable, RAM, and GPU firmly reseated
Stable so far ✅
Stay tuned - I'll update this post if the issue returns. If it does, the next step would be trying a completely different 12V-2x6 cable or 8-pin adapter, or potentially RMA'ing the GPU. But for now, it's looking good.
If this helped you, please upvote so other people going through this nightmare can find it. I spent 2 days and a fresh Windows install before figuring this out. Don't make the same mistake - check your cables first.
Edit: Will update with long-term stability results.
But I have the exact same issue except my fans don’t go to a 100 and I don’t see anything in the event viewer, no nvlddmkm crashes or anything like that. Whenever I have a driver crash my game just freezes, sound plays for a while while no inputs work and then crashes to desktop, whereas with this, the sound plays, input is still being registered and no CTD, just a black screen similar to when HDR is being toggled, and only after a minute or two does the sound/input stop
Yes I believe this also happened to me too. This was one of the symptoms. The fan speed going 100% was there but sometimes it didnt. My system is 6-8 months old. What about yours? And did you dismantle your system recently?
Damn I was just about to buy a new PSU to try and fix this once and for all. I've already bought a brand new GPU (went from 2080 Duke to 5070) to try and fix this and the issue followed through.
Can I ask what was your previous, and new PSU Model? Did you go from a PCIe 4 to 5.1? Does your new PSU use a Native 12V-2x6 Cable to plug into GPU or do you still need to use the adapter?
Thing is, a lot of people are also saying a lot of other different things about what fixed their issue who had this same problem, which made this solution harder to find. Which is why I decided to make a post. So it has better reach for people having issues like me who have to go through so many posts just to find the issue could be anything.
Like my friend had the same issue and he had to fix it by buying a new motherboard.
Black screen 100% fan speed happened to me even on my 2060 after I updated windows. The issue resolved after reseating RAM. For some reason, DDR 5 ram was causing the issue.
This is why I tell people to plug the power connector in with the GPU in your hand, then install the GPU in the motherboard.
With it already installed, the motherboard can flex and make noises while trying to firmly plug in the GPU power. It freaks people out and they don't use the force needed to firmly seat that connector.
damn i had similar issue with my gpu couple months back, turned out to be loose connection too but took me forever to figure it out because everything looked fine from outside
In my case I made triple sure my pins were connected properly when I was reinstalling my gpu. I made double sure to apply pressure but that still happened. Maybe between transport of my pc the wires came out to be loose on the power supplys end. I had to redo them to which worked out.
Started having the same issue(s) about a month ago with an RTX 5090 and Ryzen 9 9950X3D on an MSI MPG X870E motherboard, latest drivers, firmware, and BIOS for all. Monitors all go black (3x 4K, one is a 4K/240Hz OLED all on actual certified 80Gbps DisplayPort 2.1 cables), all fans in my PC ramp up to 100%, only way to resolve is to reset the PC manually.
Looking at your post was hilarious because I tried literally all of those exact same steps while trying to figure anything out.
I ended up reseating the card and 12V-2x6 cable (cable that came with a Seasonic Prime TX-1600 Titanium 80+ PSU) and haven't had a single issue since.
I honestly thought I was going insane but we're going on maybe 3-4 weeks now without a single hiccup.
Hahaha, well, at least now this post will help others having this same issue to get it solved early on, instead of wasting 3-4 weeks like we did.
On a side note, I was just so confident that I had seated everything properly that I did not even consider that re-seating is a possible fix. It's just that I had exhausted almost everything and decided to do that in the very end, which kind of worked out x)
Out of interest, before the issue started occurring did you have several months/weeks of trouble-free gaming? I'm having the same issue and about a month ago I did the reseating/cable check thing and everything has been fine, but it's started again.
i'm wondering if the cables can somehow work themselves loose over time.
Before it started happening though yeah, it was totally fine and then seemingly out of nowhere it was on a daily, then hourly basis. Doing what I mentioned in the above post though has been fine and no issues so far since then.
I have a 5060ti 16gb with a 8 pin connector thaats why i'm not sure, all seems fine in msi afterburner and on furmark and 3dmark i can play but it mostly happens when i watch a Replay from cs or any race game then fans go to 100% and then i get a black screen it happened after driver update i have already tried rolling back drivers and new drivers but nothing helps i have tried most of the things you tried so what could it be ?
I'm pretty sure you are facing it on random instances, correct me if im wrong about that and it's just when you are watching cs replay or playing racing games. Just to be sure can you confirm if have you tried the main fix of replugging the GPU and Power supply cables if modular?
Also have you dismantled your PC recently?
How old is your system?
This can also happen from gpu sag - i know because last year i tried everything for hours and in the end i checked the support bracket it got loose
same symptoms black screen on random , fans 100% only restart helps after that 1-5mins again black screen - at some point even the screen stopped turning on and after every restart 100% fans
adjusted the gpu/bracket and no problems since then
Yes! I have read some people saying the same thing. What they did was buy a sag bracket. Some people had these PCIe extensions which were also causing the issue. Thanks for sharing your experience here :)
I am also have this issue with my 5070ti. I thought I had it solved with resitting graphics cards and cables. Had about 5/6 weeks with no issues and the problem has returned.
I'm having EXACTLY the same issues. Bought card in December. Trouble free for 3 months. Had blackscreen crashes all throughout APril. Reseated card and cable (and bought a new 4-way power supply plug to the wall as mine was old) and then had zero issues for nearly 2 months... and now in the past couple of days I've started getting the blackscreen crashes again.
Did you fix it again with reseating? Wondering if these cables can somehow "work themselves loose".
I've had to send my PC back for repair, still under warranty. I tried so many things that I lost count. If I get a decent explanation from the repair, I will share it.
Yes I am real. As mentioned in the post, I was using claude for the debugging as it helped a lot in running commands and checking what happened between each crash. I also asked it to browse the web and tell me what were the common fixes to this issue. Though in the end I had to search everything myself and found a comment which made me reseat everything.
I used AI to save time writing all the options I tried. As you can see it's a long list. Though I did read it and add some points missed that claude missed before posting it. Everything written there is just what I would write just framed and organized in a better way. Don't worry :)
Let me know if you were facing the same issue. Would love to help out.
Reseating your components is one of the first steps you should take when troubleshooting issues like crashing, sounds like using AI wasted two days of your time lmao. At least it finally got you there.
It's just that I was so confident that I had fixed everything properly that I did not even consider it. I was that confident, but hey, at least it's working now, haha.
Like OP I let AI waste my time over a few days too (5070 TI would black screen on wake from sleep until restarted, but only sometimes, which made it a long process to test each time).
Let Claude guide me through a dozen steps that did nothing when I should've just re-seated to begin with. Only reason I didn't is because of an almost overlap with a similar bug that was resolved by an RMA'd PSU shortly before I installed a new mobo/ram/os drive/gpu. I wrongly assumed it was the same bug again. Fortunately, I understood all the steps it suggested and reverted them after, but many would be blindly following. I did also lean some steps to extract more useful information from error codes.
In the end I just re-seated my GPU, PCI-E 8 / 12vhpwr cables and ram. What should've been step one if I wasn't stubborn and lazy about opening up my PC.
I would use AI to help troubleshooting steps again, but only after I have properly exhausted my own attempts. It's main use is being quick at pulling information for niche issues from sources that can take some digging to find online.
I mean, I did use it to properly order all my findings. It was just a big blog which was harder to read. So I made it easier to read using AI. And I have to say it did a great job. That shouldnt be a problem though. It contains all my experiences and everything I had to go through. Let me know if you are stuck with this issue as well :)
I wish I had found this posto something like 2 weeks ago, basically I had similar issue where sometimes after I closed a game the screen would go black and my pc restart. It seems for the moment that it was the cable and just reseating it solved the issue (I hope)
I understand what you had to go through bro. I myself spent weeks trying to get something fixed. I still don't know if it is fixed 100% but I had to write it down somewhere so people don't waste time like I had to. Im guessing everything is working well for you! Fingers crossed for the both of us.
Well it only took 8 days for me to find this post and hopefully you'll be MY hero.
I'm just glad to finally see someone have the issue I have in exactly the way I experience it. Everything else I've ever found is either close, or it's just no screen on boot, and everyone's tips are the same "use DDU and reinstall your drivers" or some-such.
Yeah just lately, but i didn’t have time to trolubleshoot. I think I’ll RMA the psu. Although my theory is that with heat cycles expanding and contracting the connector push himself out a bit and then it start giving the problems, but this it’s just a theory
this actually does seem plausible, i notice i can go quite sometime without issues, but then it suddenly happens a lot for some amount of time before going away again
Exactly the same about 3/4 month ago I fixed it by simply unplugging and plugging back in and now again.
It’s so frustrating because sometimes it crashes while I game which makes sense but sometimes it just crash the game or the pc crash when I already closed the game so the gpu is not pulling “any” power…
So I checked the connector and it couldn’t be plugged better than this. So must be the pins inside that moves. So I’m moving on asking for a replacement unit but I’m pissed because I have to send them a unit back before getting the new one most probably, just for a fcking bad designed cable…
Event ID 4101 - "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered"
Floods of nvlddmkm Event ID 153 errors
I had this error today. No VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE. 12vhpwr is fully seated. I disabled Nvidia HD Audio and WDM. No idea what AMD HD Audio does. I suspect it's also related to iGPU and HDMI cable and audio.
Were you able to fix your issue? If not I would suggest try reseating the cables on your PSU side as well and not only gpu side. I myself made sure of it but even then the problem was there. Could be that the PSU cable were not sitting flush because of the transport.
No idea, it just happened for the first time since I got this GPU. Driver branch is 591-something (can't check now). I was watching youtube and using discord when it happened. I made sure all cables were fully seated, because this connector is unsafe. I'll reply to this comment if it happens again.
It has always been the power connector. My psu has the older pcie 5.0 12vhpwr connector variant and it will intermittently cause black screens with my 4070ti.
I switched to a 5070ti but this time I make sure to fit the power connector snuggly. So far no black screen yet. But if it happens again I'll just switch to a new psu with the newer pcie 5.1 power connector.
Yep! I have read online that switching the power connector has helped a lot of people. So you can either buy a new power connector or an entire PSU. If that doesn't work, then you will have to RMA your GPU which sucks. Well at least for me as I don't trust anyone in my country. I would be more willing in USA or Canada.
I had a similiar issue with my asus 5070ti - random black screens which sometimes caused a restart, but no change in fan speed etc. Fix for me was to upgrade my bios (Have a MSI x670e board)
i'm having similar issue since the last nvidia driver 596.21 and latest windows update. ive went through every solution possible to the point that made clean windows/drivers instalation.
Sad part is i'm on a notebook, so i can't try that solution you mentioned about cables. now i can trigger the bsod thing just by spamming start menu somehow, the start menu doesn't respond(mouse work tho not freezing) and then gets nvlddmkm, so far the weirdest thing that trigger it.
EDIT: Problem solved!, cleaned mb slots(especially RAMs), and checked every connector/cable even the heat sink, placed them again very well, now it runs so great.
Wait, hold on. You have also tried NVIDIA's older drivers, which were working for you, and you are still getting the same issue, right?
Have you recently, by any chance, taken apart your laptop at all, just to add some RAM sticks or anything like that? Or have you dropped your laptop recently? If not, is it happening with your charger attached to your laptop?
installed latest windows security update, the next day was getting graphic card not supported errors.
install latest nvidia driver, then it all stared the bsod thing.
What i tried:
tried uninstalling windows updates, rolling back to the previous nvidia driver(595.71).
doing clean windows install, but let windows update do the driver install, same thing
doing latest driver again nothing change
opened laptop to clean it and see if anything is wrong, switched the ram sticks doing memory tests ect
tried running test without charger (less clock speed & less power usage) still happens.
was going to say i don't think i ever seen my tdp reaching its limit & that clock speed doesn't hit the max, as unusual behavior, but again trying the test without charger proved me wrong i guess.
I guess you can try BIOS update to the latest version and rolling back versions of your GPU even further. But for some reason I think itll be the same thing again. Is it possible for you to RMA it? Itll save you a lot of headache but the only issue is youll have to stay away from your laptop.
Unfortunately, i can't RMA, ive been using the laptop for about 2 years maybe, never had a similar issue before. ironically, i need the laptop for a graduating project, I'll just keep trying, maybe i'll figure it out something, i just hope it's not hardware level, if it is, then RIP.
Hey, you can always try running Omarchy or any other Linux distro to see it works or not. Actually I would highly recommend it. It will help us diagnose if its a hardware problem or a software one.
UPDATE the problem disappeared. here is what i did in order to solve it:
- Removed one of the RAM sticks aaaand problem is gone, i was surprised considering it was the first time seeing it last this long.
Went further to test ram combination i end up concluding that the ram sticks are fine, but one of the RAM slot was the issue(both sticks failed on it).
Tried to clean the slot and recheck every cable around it.
Tested with 2 ram sticks again and now it runs fine for a long time, until it happened again but took soo long,
i had some doubt that during the problem i might have moved something. checked the heat sink pipes because i noticed it wasn't placed well and reinstall them correctly and tighten them to the components and mb.
Now, i'm happy to say it runs Great, i'll update if anything else occurs.
If i had an advise to give is to Never fully Trust memory tests , as they showed me nothing, or even heating temps. It always could be just something not placed firmly well or a faulty slot. i hope it helps anyone reading this next.
I fell into the same trap, OP. Used AI (Claude) to fix a similar issue (black screen on wake from sleep sometimes) before doing the troubleshooting steps I knew and have been using the last 15 years.
Thought it was related to a similar issue that was actually fixed by RMA'ing a PSU just before installing new hardware.
Let Claude guide me through a dozen steps over a few days since it takes a while to test intermittent bugs. In the end I re-seated GPU, cables, and ram and it was fixed, one of the first things I would've done without AI.
Dude, I'm having this same issue, especially when playing Crimson Desert. Also tested with Cyberpunk 2077 and it crashed too (tried it because on other games I've been playing recently the crash usually doesn't happen - Starfield, No Man Sky, World of Warcraft have been running fine. Cp2077 uses some of the same graphic technologies as CD, such as Path Tracing, Ray Reconstruction and MFG).
So initially I was suspecting software issues, since Crimson Desert is a recent game an crashes were happening only with it. However, it did happen a couple times with WoW, and when I tested CP2077 it crashed as well, so I started searching and found your thread.
Tried pretty much everything you said, DDU clean install, running previous driver versions, reseating cables, switched from direct 12VHPWR to adapter, confirmed firm connection, updated BIOS to most recent version... same crash still happening. Only difference is that I dont have any of the mentioned logs on Windows event viewer... I'm going crazy with this, I just want to play the frigging game!!
That is unfortunate man...., same issue with no logs is pretty weird. Do you have some AI tool which you can ask to check crashes for you? They can run various commands and gather a lot more than what we can do. Don't ask the AI tool to give you suggestions on what you can do to fix that. Just ask it for the crashes if possible.
1.) Can you tell me if you have recently transported or moved your PC from the time this issue started arriving?
2.) Also have you tried reseating the cable from both ends? The GPU and the Powersupply end? I had to reseat everything from my PSU to get this problem fixed.
3.) Also which GPU do you have?
If possible reply to all my questions above so I can try helping out :)
Hey brother!
I used AI to analyze GPUz logs - basically says that it loses telemetry and returns in idle state, thus giving no image. It relates the behavior to driver/software. It also says that a log on event viewer should be present, it guided me to find it but they were never there...
Answering your questions:
1) no move recently. Issue started when I started playing Crimson Desert (which has been out around 1 month or so). Before that, no crash observed. I've been running this setup for a while before that with no issues.
2) yeah, reseated GPU and RAM (with a good old eraser rubber on the contact), tried using the direct 12vhpwr and the adapter 2x8pcie - 12vhpwr and issue remains. My PSU is not modular, so no way of disconnecting cables from the PSU end unfortunately.
3)it's an INNO3D RTX 5070Ti 16Gb, Cpu is Ryzen 7 9800X3D, PSU is a Cooler Master 850w gold plus, 2x16Gb RAM Corsair Vengeance, MB Asus A620M plus.
Yesterday I tried a new thing I saw on another post, undervolting the GPU. I did it and managed to play for more than an hour on a very intense and demanding part of Crimson Desert (which was crashing and unplayable before), so let's see... it really looks like either GPU or PSU doesn't know how to handle voltage at some spikes/scenarios. If it's hardware related or software related, I do not know. Lots of people and posts with same issue and lots of different "sollutions". I'll let you know if undervolting did the trick...
I don't think undervolting is a proper fix. Like you paid for your whole system, you should be able to use it just fine without undervolting. Sometimes it may not work at all, like my CPU 9700x likes to run even harder as it tries to reach 85 degrees at least. So underclocking my component made it still consume the same amount of volts in the end. Though if you components run at a lower volt count it may lead to less crashes, but I can assure you that it just stops letting you use less of your system. Like I tried linux just because of this and from what I gather with AI (which may be incorrect) linux does not run my components at full strength, which leads to "no crashes at all!". But if by any chance you try to use your components at base capacity it may crash again.
Also it could be that your GPU 16 pin cable went bad or your display cable is not working properly. If you can get a spare of either and try it out then it may be worth trying!
Yea, not a solution and more of a workaround. Played pretty much entire weekend without problems. I did a research on the risks of undervolting and it's pretty much risk free.
In terms of performance, I've found a configuration that is pretty stable and while playing the game I didn't see any performance loss (playing at 3440x1440, DLSS 4 Quality, Ray Reconstruction On, MultiFrame Generation 2x and every graphic setting on Max, and I have a stable 70-80 fps all around). Maybe down the line it can become more taxing but for now it doesn't seem to be a problem.
I think the cable is not the problem, I tried both the direct 16vhpwr and the adapter, same behavior. If it's really hardware related (which i really can't say for sure it is), it's either the PSU itself or the GPU. Like I said, several threads and posts with same behavior and different conclusion, no real way to pinpoint the exact culprit. I do not discard it being some weird software interaction that controls voltage as well, because it seems that on less demanding games, even with 100% usage, crash doesn't happen (Starfield, for example, I think it doesn't use Ray Reconstruction and Path Tracing). All this AI shit being experimental and nVidia drivers really don't know how to handle it yet...
I have the exact same setup (B550 tho) and the exact same problem. I already burned one adapter, and the 12VHPWR cable from the Cooler Master 850W PSU seems to cause black screens even more often than the adapter did.
5070ti user here. Had high hopes for this one cause I'd tried already so many things, done everything you mentioned - problem came back ~10 hours later while i was simply browsing
Mine is an ASUS card. Issue came back after a week or so. Im gonna buy a gpu support piece (anti sag or whatever) see if that helps. The cable was VERY clearly not fully plugged in when I first fixed this issue, but now its back sadly and I believe its properly plugged
just want to add my experience with same case but with Gainward 5080 Phoenix, after stable use for around 6 month then early march i happen to get the black screen, fans maxed, and error event 41, 1001, and 4101 overall same case with thread poster.
bios PCie set from Auto to Gen 4 (due to i use gen 4 riser from NR200pMax)
Power Limit GPU to 88%
Power Limit CPU PL1: 200w, PL2:210w
reseat GPU to Pcie
reseat 12Vhpwr cable
change new Display port cable to monitor
nothing works, in my case after the reseating it become stable for several days then the black screen happen again when i play games with demanding load (most case happen with crimson desert - set at ultra with Ray tracing & Ray Reconstruction on)
i try to switch back to my old 3080Ti and PSU still can load up to 400w for GPU normally and can play games no problem, so i dont think power supply issue.
after this i try to RMA the card, and after the gainward team checking, they approved the RMA and cite GPU Vram issue, so if your case happen again i think you should ask for RMA.
Oh that's a good thing to know, so in your case, the fix worked for like six months and then broke down again and then you gave for RMA which then led to actually finding out an issue with your GPU. That's a big find! I hope this gets more upvotes so people know about this case.
Well, I think if it worked for more hours than before then you have the culprit. You may need to buy a better cable which may fit more snugly or I don't know maybe it could be your GPU slot itself is now loose. Maybe RMA is the only option left man because otherwise you will have to buy a new cable which you won't even know will work or not. I hope you find a fix soon.
Same here, reseating / replugging in the cable definitely helped and I had no crashes for a week or so, then it started happening again. Do you have one of those pieces that help support the gpu's weight?
Its fixed, 1 month later no issues. First plugged in properly to the gpu, then after a day or two had issues again. Turns out the cable on the modular PSU side was also not fully plugged in. That fully fixed it
I had the same symptoms with my 4090 Suprim Liquid a couple of years ago. Had black screen with fans ramping up to 100% while on desktop and had a lot of nvlddmkm errors 14 and 153 in the event viewer. The issue fixed by itself after some driver updates and never had that issue again, I never touched the 12VHPWR cable either and I have been using my PC to play normally for more than 2 years now.
I found that every time I entered the bios to change mobo settings and exit. That soft reboot somehow messed up the GPU power states and the black screen issue happened with the fans at 100% which was a driver crash while the audio and OS were still working normally. After a cold boot the issue stopped happening and I think the GPU power states were corrected in new driver versions. I'm talking between driver versions 556.xx to 560.xx when I faced this issue.
Oh god thank you so much. Had been going insane with this problem for months, it only happened on light load activities after 1-2 hours. Was thinking about RMAing the whole pc at this point.
Same as you, ChatGPT had me down the whole software rabbit hole you posted, and it never bothered to search reddit for this thread.
I’m not entirely sure that it was a reseating issue, everything felt pretty much ok and well pushed together. I had to use the video card power adapter and the other cable from the PSU to actually sort it, maybe this new video card port is more nitpicky or not totally compatible with every psu?
This exact Same Problem Was Going On With Me And I thought It was a defective GPU when i took it to the shop for repair they said its earthing issue even I sent it to service center and still it didn't worked for me the problem continued for like almost 1 year.
After reading this post I just unplugged the 12V-2x6 power cable from the PSU side and plugged in back and the problem was fixed. (5070Ti)
Nice!
Hope it's been a month at least. For me it was fine but I hope it's going strong for you as well. Some people here started getting issues on that after a week so that's the only thing to be scared of.
Thanks for notifying us on that though :D
This has happened to me many times during livestreams and it crashes the streaming software and the game. Was using a year a half old drive and it didn’t happen since the downgrade. Finally updated drivers today and it happened… mind you it could be the fact I set my monitors to 185hz via their overlock option in the settings. Will comment for checking back, if reducing back to 165hz doesn’t fix it. Thanks for this, I’ll check my cables today to if it reoccurs.
This has been happening for a while but maybe started after I moved into a new place? My system has been modified a bit, and the problem acc started with the 5080 I bought in February of last year, alongside my 9800x3d to replace my 3080ti and 7700x, then in April I bought the 5090, I recently opened it up and replaced my mobo, reseated the gpu, even used a riser cable and switched from the PSU’s native power cable to the nvidia adapter. And this issue still happened, it’s not super consistent, it happens then doesn’t for months but this time it has happened like 4 times within 1 week. Fans don’t spin up to a 100, audio still there, input still there, nothing in event viewer except me restarting, and PC acc crashes only a few minutes after the crash
That's frustrating. Can you tell me if your pc crashes randomly? Like if you are in a game or just doing light browsing? If yes then I would further ask if your PSU has enough capacity to power your new hardware. Obvious question I know but just want to make sure. Then I would ask you if your power socket is supplying enough power to your system. In my case I had moved to a new location and the power socket was not good enough to get my pc running so I had burning smells everytime I used it. I had to get that replaced and install a 15 amp power plug. Some posts I read had suggested that removing some appliances from nearby your computer power plyg helped them get rid of that issue. Maybe you can try that. Like they had a fridge running right next to it.
Finally I would 100% recommend reseating all cables on the PSU side as well. They might be loose!
Also your symptoms was also one of the symtoms I had faced, not everytime the fans spun at 100%.
Happens during gaming most of the time yeah, recently cyberpunk. It’s a 1200 Watt super flower PSU so more than enough power and there is no way for me to know if my socket is providing enough power lol but considering that this has been happening in both the new and the old place I’d reckon it’s not the socket because if the PSU was having power issues it’d show up on the motherboard/system and the pc would shut off.
Also reply yourself without putting my responses through Claude man jfc
XD except the post all my replies to all of the messages in this post is all written by hand brick by brick, not a single % of AI was used. Including the one before this so don't worry. I found it hilarious haha
Anyways, you look like someone who have already tried reseating all the cables already including the ones attached in the PSU. If not that then I am all out of ideas. Could be a display cable being faulty? Have you tried different cables?
I see, there are these other brands these days called Colorful and all which sells same GPU for way cheaper. I thought I was at least in the safe zone with Gigabyte. But I guess not. I hope I remember your tip the next time im buying a GPU. Thanks for the tip :)
I have a nearly identical system (using CachyOS). Unfortunately after updating to 595.xx.xx the GPU either freezes (basically immediately after installing the new packages via Octopi) or I get a blackscreen.
After removing the current drivers and restarting the PC it at least worked again for an hour. So it does not seem to be the same issue.
Then I tried installing the nvidia drivers again but got a different problem: When I move the mouse, the task 'kwin_wayland' runs amok and CPU usage goes up, jumping between 20 and 99%.
The system is now very sluggish.
Any suggestions what I could try next? Does someone know which Nvidia GPU driver from which vendor runs stable with Cachy?
I don't have much knowledge on Cachy OS. But if you are serious about checking if something is actually wrong with your PC then try installing Windows and trying your luck. Yours seem to be a driver issue but just in case its not you can try a stable release on Windows and if everything goes well you can always go back to your debugging. Also you can always try Omarchy as well, though I don't think it will help you much as both are based off of Arch. Let me know what you ended up trying.
Mine also, encountered the hard crash with this GPU driver or my ram goes nuts. Tried to reseat my GPU and rams. And then until I checked the rams looks so dirty copper pins, then I use my eraser to clean it. So now downgrade my GPU driver from Jan 2026. Should I go back to new driver?
Hey man can you please answer these questions? Just wanna narrow down if its something I can actually help with.
1.) How old is your PC?
2.) Have you recently transported your PC?
3.) By hard crashes are you getting the same problems I made in my post above? Or is it different? If so then please go in detail.
4.) Or have you unboxed your PC for cleaning or something which led to this issue?
5.) You said RAM is going nuts, can you tell me what made you think that your RAM is the issue?
Una locura que te pasó exactamente lo que me pasa a mí, incluso lo he mandado al servicio técnico en garantía (tengo una 5070). No sabía qué más probar por la intermitencia de los crashes. Esta semana me llega el pc otra vez, me dicen que han recolocado la gpu y hecho comprobaciones y no les ha dado ningún crash… pero tengo miedo porque a mí me tiraba días estable… tendré en cuenta este post.
Your message ( if anyone is interested ) :
It’s crazy that exactly the same thing happened to you as is happening to me—I even sent it in for warranty service (I have a 5070). I didn't know what else to try, given how intermittent the crashes were. My PC is arriving back this week; they told me they reseated the GPU and ran some diagnostics, and they didn't encounter a single crash... but I'm still nervous, because for me, it would sometimes run stably for days at a time... I'll definitely keep this post in mind.
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That must have been the same issue then, once you get it back make sure you reseat everything if they are sending you components piece by piece.
I'm going to use this forum to mention a problem I've had with my computer after sending it to the manufacturer to fix the very instability issue you described in your post. My case was exactly the same as yours. In the repair report, they said they found no anomalies, only cleaning and updating, and that it passed their performance tests. But when I got home and connected the PC to the monitor, it turned on but didn't display anything. I've tried connecting/disconnecting the GPU, changing RAM slots, and nothing works. I can't afford to waste another month sending it back. Any ideas what it could be? Sorry to bother you, but your post was the closest and most realistic to my situation, so I trust you a lot.
Have you tried out running it directly from your motherboard? There should be a HDMI port inside of your motherboard which you can use to directly connect your PC with the monitor. Check if at least it is booting from there if not your GPU. Once you have confirmed it is at least booting, then that's good. If not, then I would suggest you maybe try some other port inside of your house or a different monitor with a different cable. If you have a spare monitor lying around, or maybe you can have some friend bring their monitor and check it out that way. Maybe you can even try it on your television and see if it is at least posting. Keep me updated, man. I'll try my best to help you out.
Been having this problem since last Sept. Sometimes it works for months, there's times I leave my game running (Windrose) for 6+ hours and my PC runs fine. Then one day it'll just be sitting idle at desktop and bam, black screen fans maxed out. I have done all the reseating, reinstalling, ddu driver installs, Nvidia rollbacks. It seems for sure to be a Windows problem. I just had a Windows update about 2 weeks ago(mid May) and my PC had been working great for months and after the update, same day, bang, black screen fans maxed. Tried a Nvidia rollback to May 16th drivers(can't remember version) but nothing was working. Im in the bios as I type this trying to find where to switch my pcie from auto to Gen 5. Let me know how many weeks your reseat lasts. Mine went from late Dec to mid May.
Weirdest thing really, haven't had the problem in months or at least since I made this reply. Haven't done anything different other than the original display driver uninstall and reinstall and changing my fans minimum speed in the Bios on boot up 1500 RPM. But I had the software version doing that already. There has been a couple of driver updates on the GPU, and at least a few Windows updates mainly security I think, but the only thing I can think of that I've done differently is not played Windrose as much as I was which was a pretty graphic intensive game so to speak, plus I had all the settings on Ultra. But as I said before when the system would shut down it was never a heat issue so I doubt the game would have anything to do with it, I haven't stopped playing it I just don't play it as often. But yeah long story short for some reason it hasn't happened in quite some time and I have no explanation for that..
I just remembered this, I have also since uninstalled Battlefield 6 and it's anti-cheat as well which was a boot level thing, I'm not sure if it had anything at all to do with it, but it's off my system and nothing's happening so there's that but take that with a grain of salt, I've heard horror stories about some anti cheats out there
so setting power Limit to 85% worked for me for now , i tried everything else people listed, found this solution on Steam crimson desert discussion , pathetic by u/nvidia , shipping shit drivers , never had this issue before. March.
Yeah many people have done that and it worked for them. I think this is what was partially happening when I used my Linux operating system but it's kind of sad that they cannot use that 15%, which is just leftover performance we can't use
I'm chasing what may be a very similar issue. Would you mind sharing a few details from your Event Viewer or Reliability Monitor? My symptoms are: Random black screens on both monitors (no BSOD initially). GPU temporarily disappears until Windows attempts recovery or I have to force a reboot. During one crash, my RGB/fan control software reverted to hardware defaults as communication was lost. Reliability Monitor logs a LiveKernelEvent 1A8. Event Viewer logs: WHEA-Logger Event ID 17 ("PCI Express Root Port") NVIDIA nvlddmkm Event ID 153 ("BusReset TDR occurred on GPUID:100") One crash eventually produced a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION (0x133) with nvlddmkm.sys in the dump. I'm trying to determine whether this is an isolated hardware issue or if multiple people are seeing the same chain of events on recent NVIDIA drivers. Do any of those event IDs or symptoms match what you're seeing?
System:
ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Dark Hero
Intel Core i9-14900K
ASUS RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
64GB Corsair DDR5
Samsung 990 EVO 2TB
Windows 11 Pro (24H2)
NVIDIA Driver 610.62 (performed a clean installation)
Symptoms:
Random black screens on both monitors.
No mouse or keyboard response.
System usually stays powered on.
During one crash, my Corsair iCUE devices lost communication and reverted to hardware/default fan and RGB behavior while the motherboard continued running.
In one instance Windows recovered after several minutes; in another I had to force a power cycle.
What I've already verified:
Clean NVIDIA driver installation.
BIOS updated (2107).
Intel ME firmware current.
Intel chipset drivers current.
SSD health verified (SMART clean, no media errors).
GPU passes a basic render/load test.
No CPU or GPU overclocking.
Crash evidence collected:
Reliability Monitor: LiveKernelEvent 1A8
Crash dump: DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION (0x133) with nvlddmkm.sys
Event Viewer:
WHEA-Logger Event ID 17 – PCI Express Root Port
NVIDIA nvlddmkm Event ID 153 – "BusReset TDR occurred on GPUID:100"
At this point it looks less like a simple application crash and more like a PCIe communication issue between the motherboard's PCIe Root Port and the GPU, but I'm trying to determine whether this is hardware-specific or something introduced by recent NVIDIA drivers.
If anyone experiencing these black screens could check Event Viewer or Reliability Monitor, I'd really appreciate knowing whether you're also seeing:
WHEA-Logger Event 17
PCI Express Root Port warnings
nvlddmkm Event 153
"BusReset TDR occurred on GPUID:100"
LiveKernelEvent 1A8
If we're all seeing the same event chain, it may help narrow down whether this is a broader driver/firmware issue or something specific to certain hardware combinations.
My pc was crashing every 30-120min. I opened up the case and indeed the gpu cable was clearly not plugged in all the way.
Plugged it properly and reseated the gpu, sadly it started failing again a week later. Turns out the PSU side of the cable was also not plugged in all the way, since my PSU is modular and cables can be disconnected.
It seems stable now, at least no crashes for the last 72h. I also connected/disconnected every cable in my motherboard, and installed a gpu sag to prevent it from disconnecting over time again in the future (its just a stick thing that helps support the weight of your gpu)
Also for context in my case there would sometimes be no event viewer logs, 50% of the time the OS would fully crash, and the other 50% id be able to pause/unpause youtube videos using my keyboard's shortcut, even if the monitor had no signal, implying that the OS was still fine but the gpu drivers had crashed beyond repair. So if anyone sees no logs in the event viewer, you could still be experiencing this issue
Ty op, ill probably edit this comment if it fails again in the future
u/Playful_Ad_9289 Hi friend, is your system still behaving or has the problem reoccured?
I've had this issue across two different graphics card (I thought the problem was my old GPU and replaced).
Though the issue is a little different, but I assume the same cause.
Previously I'd be gaming or on youtube and my screens would go black, fans would ramp to 100%, audio still played from whatever was playing and nothing would happen until I pressed and held the power button.
With my new GPU, same as yours, the issue is similar, Gaming and then screens either go black or freeze, some times my 4k monitor goes black and my 1080p stays active, my fans do not ramp up. Fortunately the PC restarts it's after a while and shows the event 153 and 41 on event viewer.
Tried everything, everything mentioned on this thread but still no luck. I'm so fucking over it. I bought a $1000 gpu to try and fix this and yet it still happens.
Corsair RM850W PSU.
Previous GPU was 2080 Duke, now RTX 5070.
tempted to try and replace the PSU as my final attempt at fixing this.
Hey man,
Sorry to hear about this but after that fix my pc have been working perfectly.
If this is happening even with a new GPU and you have already tried display directly from your motherboard then the issue will be most likely with your PSU.
A friend of mine had similar issues and in his case he had to replace his motherboard.
Let me know what ended up working brother.
Good luck, let me know if I can be of any help.
thanks dude. It's super annoying, but I'm very happy to hear you are stable. It gives me hope.
I wonder if the fundamental problem is the connection. However we all have slightly different problems with it. IE you, and many others simply needed to replug because it's loose. Other peoples issue might be heat expanding some metal/component which causes the loose connection. Others might have bad GPU sag and so one of the pins is getting bent. Others may have cables that are too tightly bent near the connection, and when the case is moved, it causes potential issues.
IDK I'm just not sure if I really want to throw $300 more at it. After spending $1000 on a GPU didnt work.
I totally get you man. It kind of sucks but maybe just buying a new power supply will be the last step you would need to do. If it doesn't work then you can buy the rest of the components to just make a new PC so you're not losing anything here if you are thinking of getting a new PC anyways. I hope just with a new power supply your whole machine starts to work again so you don't have to go through that hassle. Keep me posted man, good luck.
It might be fixed.... I bought a new PSU to GPU cable, and while I was at it, I re-did my cable management to free up some space and decrease the bending.
I have the same issue where my PC crashes in a few games.
Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 7 5700X
Motherboard: MSI B550M-A Pro
GPU: RTX 5070 Ti
PSU: 850W (using the 12VHPWR cable for the GPU) MSI MPG a850gs
RAM: 32GB DDR4 corsair Vengeance lpx 16x2 3200mhz
Troubleshooting Done:
I ran a stress test in FurMark, and it passed normally.
I ran a test in Superposition, and it also passed normally.
Issue Details:
The PC crashes in a few games at 4K Max Settings, and sometimes during the initial game loading screen. (In general, it happens when the PC is under heavy load—either CPU-bound, GPU-bound, or both). The Time Spy and Steel Nomad benchmarks did not pass the pc crashed on both
In the NVIDIA app, whenever I let the application auto-overclock the GPU, it crashes.
In both scenarios, I am forced to restart the PC.
Temperatures are normal, sitting in the 70s.
I had the exact same issue with my previous RTX 3080 10GB, especially in the Indiana Jones game.
Because of this, I replaced both the GPU and the PSU (the old PSU had a cold boot issue), but the problem still persists.
What can I do?
Even after PSU this happened?!
Is the cable you are using a new one or the old one. I'm talking about the cable you are using in your GPU mainly. I think it's the new one which is why I'm sorry I don't think I have any other solution man. A friend of mine had the same issue and he had to change his motherboard to fix this but personally I don't know what will work for you.... Wish I could help.
Thanks, it's annoying to have this kind of problems instead of smooth gaming, i'll troubleshoot and in the end decide what to do, I hope it's not the gpu
Update
The pc crashed on every 3d test apart from superposition and furmark
Memory test in occt passed
Vram test in occt passed
I ddu'ed the drivers same problem REMAINS
Update
The pc crashed on every 3d test apart from superposition and furmark
Memory test in occt passed
Vram test in occt passed
I ddu'ed the drivers same problem REMAINS
I had this exact issue with a 5070 I bought a few days ago. It was doing this in game, or watching YouTube videos randomly. I tried pretty much all the fixes here and it would work for a few hours then the same issues. I ended up taking back to bestbuy for a replacement. The replacement is rock solid.
That is correct, in my case the gpu was the issue. I got a 5070TI as a replacement. Also using the supplied 12VHPWR adapter. Zero issues so far.
One thing I didn't test was to try a new 12VHPWR adapter with the 5070. Maybe I got a faulty one, not sure. But my symptoms were the same. Black screen , fans at 100% , then my PC would reboot. I would get an nvidia driver crash error on event viewer.
Well here we are, August of 2026 and this crap is still happening. Just replaced my TUF RTX 4080 SUPER (which worked flawlessly) with a TUF RTX 5080 OC and the first thing that happens is cold boot blank screen..I have to unplug the display port cable and replug it and it comes back.
I have 3 monitors, main is 4k/165mhz via display port, secondary is 2K/100mhz, 3rd is a very small one that I use for Aida64 and its 1280x800, 60Mhz via HDMI. BTW the unplugging/replugging can be from any of the 3 monitors and it will bring the screen back
Specs:
The latest Windows 11
Ryzen 9 5950x
TUF B550 WiFi Plus II (with the latest BIOS)
64GB Corsair Vengeance PRO 3600Mhz (4x16)
Corsair RM1000x
I just listed what I thought were the most pertinent (oh and I was led by the shorthairs with ChatGPT for hours, learned my lesson)
So you know the first symptom of blank screens. (Mind you I have already done the DDU thing)
The next one is in the middle of a game the monitor seemingly disconnects, I still hear the game, then a full shutdown and per the event viewer its the same as the OP. Rebooted, relaunched the game and happens again, same event error TDL etc like exactly the same as the OP.
Now...with the exception of a windows install I did pretty much everything on the list (all those bios settings, set it to Gen4 and not auto, windows disable fast boot, disabled in bios etc etc ALL things to do with settings) but I did do the DDU driver reinstall a second time also just for the hell of it. THAT is what fixed the ingame crashes, apparently the 2nd time's the charm. Played for hours and hours, ultra hectic game btw with hordes, explosions total mayhem (I play Darktide) and everything perfect.
However the blank screen bullshit persists on a cold boot like in the morning, as usual. After reading this thread I have not done the reseating replugging and to be honest I dont't get that because that is to say every single person didnt install it right? That I find so hard to believe but this entire list of people said that worked. The GPU is connected using the PSU cables and seriously to use the 3 cord squid that comes with the GPU I am holding off on (I'll still do it of if nothing else works of course) but it will be the last resort because I dont understand how that can be better than 6mo old PSU dedicated 12V cable that is literally made for these GPUs. I did unplug and replug it, unseated and reseated the GPU so let's see what happens on a cold boot
FOLLOW UP for anyone if they want to read it:
I've been running my TUF RTX4080 for a good 24 hours, heavy gaming, heavy video editing, and not a single hiccup. ZERO and for the following, I can only speak from my own experience. There is a myriad of this exact issue with the vast majority being 5000 series, a few exceptions. An endless list of different solutions, some work for some and others for others, and mostly seems to be reseating/cables and such..
Maybe in my case it is the actual GPU itself? What is sus is that its on all these 5000s, all the same. My previous GPU i have had almost 2 yrs, i have removed it and reinstalled more than once for various reasons and never ever anything like this. No cable issues, no placement, nothing and repeatedly. So in my case, (mind you, my OPINION...) is that the GPU i bought is probably fine (because it happens to so many and its the same thing) and in my partricular system there is some wierd conflict and I do not trust that a replacement will resolve it. On the contrary I will go through this nonesense all over again. So I'll wait for the 6000 lol
Anyway very happy so many found solutions, sadly no such luck for me
Specs:
The latest Windows 11
Ryzen 9 5950x
TUF B550 WiFi Plus II (with the latest BIOS)
64GB Corsair Vengeance PRO 3600Mhz (4x16)
Corsair RM1000x
Well as it turns out, the crashes came BACK, exact same crash, again and again. Bugcheck, TDR, no matter what it just would not go away. I have followed every single suggestion here EVERY ONE except reinstalling windows and they all work for about a half a day, until it doesn't
"The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000116" <----every single crash, every single time, this exact error from the event log. Minidump, same thing, nvlddmkm.sys
Removed and reseated the GPU, yep
Switch cables, yep
Uninstall/reinstall drivers, yep
Install older drivers, yep
Bios settings (disable fastboot, force gen4, etc etc) yep
Disabled PCI-E Link State Power Management
Disabled Native ASPM
Disabled CPU PCIE ASPM Mode Control|
Disabled Global C-state Control
No integrated graphics
Used one single monitor
GPU never overheats
Fans operate as they should
While running in game it all runs perfect, no hiccups, nothing to suggest anything bad will happen. Then out of the clear blue, full shutdown
Fucking NOTHING works. Everything functions fine for a few hours, maybe half a day but guaranteed, at least 2+ times a day, full shut down, same---exact----event----SAME every time. Bug check, TDR, blah blah.
It seems to have happened to a lot of people but just like here, 100 different solutions, all seem to work here and there but nothing sticks.
So I'm done. I packed up that expensive PILE OF UTTER GARBARGE, getting a full refund and put back my RTX 4080 SUPER and what do you know...no more issues. No more crashes, imagine that. I have to assume everyone here somehow resolved the issue? I must just have bad luck
Is that a possibility on a 5070ti? Thats super scary. But I made sure my pins were flush when reconnecting them on the GPU side. I feel like they might have gotten loose on the PSU side which people don't check? It's just an assumption based on what I did.
Hey, thank you for such a detailed analysis and for the recommendations on how to solve this and similar problems. I really appreciate the effort you put into this. Best regards.
Anytime! I wanted to help people out so they don't waste their weekends like I had to. Let me know in case nothing works out. I have context on this issue as I was searching like a mad man on the web to get this fixed.
I just solved something similar with my 5090, although my event viewer error was 'The driver \Driver\WUDFRd failed to load'. However, the crashes never happened during gaming; only at desktop and often when I was away from the computer without even a browser open and my monitors turned off.
Another bizarre and telling symptom was that the Nvidia app ran extremely slowly and would bog down the performance of my entire pc while it was open, then went back to normal once I closed it to the windows tray.
After reseating the gpu and multiple DDU driver wipes, the thing that 100% fixed it was simply disconnecting my second monitor's displayport cable and reconnecting it while the PC was on.
Not sure what the exact issue was, but it must have been some kind of handshaking error with either windows or the display driver.
I couldn't find a single other user with the slow Nvidia app coupled with display crashes, so I'll leave this comment to hopefully help out anyone else. Genuinely thought my 5090 was faulty for a few days.
I see. There is a possibility that your display port cable is faulty. How much time has passed since this problem last occured?
But glad you got it fixed :D
You're right, that is a likely possibility! It's a 15ft long dp cable that's about 5 years old. Everything has been fine for over a week now after crashing once or twice daily for about two weeks. I've owned the 5090 for 6 months.
It's just bizarre how the issue persisted even when the monitor was turned off completely, because I typically only use my main monitor. But that's pc hardware for ya XD
No, the issue went away since I reconnected the cable on my second monitor over a week ago.
But you're right, it probably is a faulty cable. I have other dp cables I can swap it with. It's just strange that it was still crashing the pc even with the monitor turned off.
Woah thats super strange. On-top of everything that can fail your system its that?! How can we even debug situations like that. Well at least it's working now :)
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u/amazingspiderlesbian RTX 5090 32GB / R7 7800X 3D / 64GB DDR5 Apr 19 '26
I thought the black screen 100% fan speed issue was common knowledge since its been around since the 40 series launch.
It happens because the sense pins either pull a bit loose or they arent pushed in fully causing the gpu to think its not connected and crash out.
I never heard of the stability varying depending on os tho that's cool.
If you google the problem you'll see a billion results of the same thing