Hi, I'm really hoping somebody might have an easy answer to this annoying problem.  Specs:  i76700k (stock speed), 1000watt evga supernova t2, gskill 32GB, 2080ftw3, samsung m2 950 pro.  All I did was update the bios, newest drivers were already running my titan x, removed the titan x and power down.  I blew some compressed air a bit to clear dust, and I installed my 2080ftw3.  All seemed just fine and I gamed for the night, all ran well.  Next morning (excited), I pressed power button and cpu fans just spin like crazy and all has power, but wont boot up and just black screen.  Same thing happens when trying to wake it from sleep.  I have to hold power to turn off and then turn off power supply and back on and it starts everytime.  I haven't done much yet but google my problem.  Anybody have any ideas? Please?

I've been having the same issue for almost a month now, 2080 FTW3 and i7 6700k as well w/ MSI gaming m5 motherboard. Whenever I try to start the computer from sleep my screens stay black and im forced to use the button to hard reset the PC (no unusual fan activity though). I was under the assumption that it is a windows bug because i noticed the problem began after switching builds of windows. I'm now on the newest insider preview build and still having the issue. 

JonathanColon
I've been having the same issue for almost a month now, 2080 FTW3 and i7 6700k as well w/ MSI gaming m5 motherboard. Whenever I try to start the computer from sleep my screens stay black and im forced to use the button to hard reset the PC (no unusual fan activity though). I was under the assumption that it is a windows bug because i noticed the problem began after switching builds of windows. I'm now on the newest insider preview build and still having the issue. 

My wife is having this problem with her 1080 ti FTW3. I recently gifted her it as I upgraded to the 2080 ti FTW3 and her 1080 Asus Strix she had in her PC before didn't have this problem. I've resorted to just not putting the PC in sleep mode for now until I can figure out something else.

avantadigital
try Power management in the control panel

And do what?

Duh, after all this, I forgot to look at the motherboard code on my gene 4.  It's 00 which is no cpu detected...not good. Will post back with a solution if I find one.

jprafel
Duh, after all this, I forgot to look at the motherboard code on my gene 4.  It's 00 which is no cpu detected...not good. Will post back with a solution if I find one.

But you can get into the BIOS and if your CPU isn't being detected by your MB then there is no way you could be getting into your BIOS. Your CPU has an iGPU built into it, what happens if you remove your 2080 FTW3 and plug in an HDMI cable to your MB to see if you can get it to boot properly?

aldur80

jprafel
Duh, after all this, I forgot to look at the motherboard code on my gene 4.  It's 00 which is no cpu detected...not good. Will post back with a solution if I find one.

But you can get into the BIOS and if your CPU isn't being detected by your MB then there is no way you could be getting into your BIOS. Your CPU has an iGPU built into it, what happens if you remove your 2080 FTW3 and plug in an HDMI cable to your MB to see if you can get it to boot properly?

 I cannot get into bios once the pc gets to the no booting with the error code 00 on motherboard display.  Only way to do anything once its in this state is to force power off (holding power button), and turn power supply off then on again.  Then it boots every time without issue.  Swapping hdmi cables changed nothing.
Thanks for the replies by the way. Hopefully I will be back with a fix.  I haven't reseated the graphics card yet. Will do and post results either way.

Sajin

aldur80
what happens if you remove your 2080 FTW3 and plug in an HDMI cable to your MB to see if you can get it to boot properly?

+1

 Thanks for the reply. I have no onboard displays so I cannot connect to anything but my gpu?  Did I understand you correctly?

Mikeafr
Guys.... this is a known problem with the 2000 series....  There is a *massive* thread on the official Nvidia forums about it.  It was one of the major defects of the early batch cards that effected a large number of people.  Just to save you a lot of reading, the consensus by the end of the thread was that this was an early sign of card death, many people's cards went on to die, and everyone who RMA'd their cards with this problem received cards that no longer exhibited this issue.
 
I can't post links here apparently, but go look for the thread called "Black Screen with RTX 2080 Ti After Restarting PC" on the official Nvidia 2000 series forums.

 Man, I hope this is the case.  My new card should come tomorrow and I can find out hopefully.  Thanks soooo much for the reply.  I have been reading till my brain is mush and definitely am not looking forward to more "fruitless" googling.  I will head to Nvidia site and see what you're referring to.  This would actually be really good news to rule out a problem with my pc itself rather than the gpu.  Fingers are crossed tightly my dudes.

aldur80

jprafel

Sajin

aldur80
what happens if you remove your 2080 FTW3 and plug in an HDMI cable to your MB to see if you can get it to boot properly?

+1

Thanks for the reply. I have no onboard displays so I cannot connect to anything but my gpu?  Did I understand you correctly?

Your 6700k has an iGPU built into it, and most, TBH I thought every, MB that an 6700k will fit into has an on-board HDMI port. Which MB do you have?

Wow, I'm more of a noob than I realized. SMH.  Didn't realize cpu had integrated gpu but makes sense.  Anyway, I unplugged display port cable and plugged hdmi into motherboard and changed monitor input to hdmi from display, but no picture that way.  Not sure why, could I have integrated gpu turned off in bios.  I didn't try booting since I didn't have a video signal without my display port plugged in.

jprafel

aldur80

jprafel

Sajin

aldur80
what happens if you remove your 2080 FTW3 and plug in an HDMI cable to your MB to see if you can get it to boot properly?

+1

Thanks for the reply. I have no onboard displays so I cannot connect to anything but my gpu?  Did I understand you correctly?

Your 6700k has an iGPU built into it, and most, TBH I thought every, MB that an 6700k will fit into has an on-board HDMI port. Which MB do you have?

Wow, I'm more of a noob than I realized. SMH.  Didn't realize cpu had integrated gpu but makes sense.  Anyway, I unplugged display port cable and plugged hdmi into motherboard and changed monitor input to hdmi from display, but no picture that way.  Not sure why, could I have integrated gpu turned off in bios.  I didn't try booting since I didn't have a video signal without my display port plugged in.

Did you remove the new card first while trying to post or boot with the monitor cable connected to the internal GPU?

jprafel

aldur80

jprafel

Sajin

aldur80
what happens if you remove your 2080 FTW3 and plug in an HDMI cable to your MB to see if you can get it to boot properly?

+1

Thanks for the reply. I have no onboard displays so I cannot connect to anything but my gpu?  Did I understand you correctly?

Your 6700k has an iGPU built into it, and most, TBH I thought every, MB that an 6700k will fit into has an on-board HDMI port. Which MB do you have?

Wow, I'm more of a noob than I realized. SMH.  Didn't realize cpu had integrated gpu but makes sense.  Anyway, I unplugged display port cable and plugged hdmi into motherboard and changed monitor input to hdmi from display, but no picture that way.  Not sure why, could I have integrated gpu turned off in bios.  I didn't try booting since I didn't have a video signal without my display port plugged in.

Remove the gpu from the system and try again.

Robert0507
I’m having the same issue with black screen at first power up then having to reboot. It also started to happen after I upgraded from windows 10 1803 build to the latest 1809 build. Sounds like a windows 10 bug

Windows fast startup may be your issue... https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4189-turn-off-fast-startup-windows-10-a.html
 
Make sure it's disabled.

Robert0507
Ha turning off fast start fixed the problem.!!!!!!!!

Yes!  Problem solved for the moment.  My pc now boots from off and wakes from sleep reliably again!!!  I'm glad because I have tried everything I had read or had thought of, and got such a bad headache today that I puked.  I even changed the cmos battery to rule that out. ALL I had to do was NOT, repeat...NOT use any XMP profile.  Just messing around with everything I could think of, I decided to not use XMP and just set my ram frequency manually.  AND------->GOOD TO GO!