bern43
I've had my 3090 ftw running for a few weeks now.  So far so good.  But I just got my first black screen on my second 60Hz monitor.  My main monitor is running at 144Hz.  Event viewer is showing an nvlddmkm error.  A restart brought the monitor back up.  Hopefully this is fixed soon. 

Set your global power management to 'normal'. Give it a day, or few hours. You'll be getting what I got lol. Setting it to 'prefer max performance' stops this...

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Black screen and screen flickering issues
Response By Email (Ray) (02/05/2021 04:15 PM)
Hello,
 
We released hotfix driver version 461.51 today with changes that should help with this issue. If you haven't already updated give this new driver a try here: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5158
 
 
Best regards,
Ray

 
The hotfix addresses the following issues:

• [Ampere] Chrome/Edge may experience random TDR while browsing [3195894]
• [G-SYNC][Edge of Eternity/Hitman 2]: The games experience stutter and low FPS when Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in windowed mode [200685971]
• Wallpaper Engine app may crash on startup or upon resume from sleep. [3208963]
• [461.40] LG CX OLED TVs (2020) are not recognized as G-SYNC Compatible displays [3244055]
• [Surround][RTX 30 series] PC may display no signal message when enabling NVIDIA Surround [3230565]
• On some Notebooks ‘Maximum Graphics Power’ information missing in NV Control Panel - System Information [200697069]

 
 
Give it a try guys :)

I'll install it now. Should we do a clean install, or just install it as an upgrade?

Well, I went ahead and installed it anyway. I did not use DDU before the hotfix installation. So lets see if this issue with the black screen will come back again for me. When I did install the hotfix however, I did click on 'clean install' while in customs. Hopefully it'll be fine. I'll report back if there are any issues. One thing I noticed in the Nvidia Control Panel, is this:

Looks like they removed 'normal' as the power management lol.

On RTX 3070 I was getting a black screen straight after loading Windows when Nvidia drivers were installed. Generic display drivers didn't have the problem, only after windows update installed nvidia drivers or I installed nvidia drivers myself from nvidia's website did the black screen issue appear. Safe mode, DDU, reinstalling, tried all three displayports, same problem.
 
The monitor works fine with a 2080 Ti using the same cable so I figured the display and cable were fine, but then I tried an HDMI cable on the same monitor. HDMI didn't get a black screen. I haven't had the issue again yet after a few reboots, but I'm still paranoid it will happen again. I set power in NVCP to "prefer max performance" and I'm hoping that helps.

Hello everyone! I have a FTW3 3080 and have the same problem I think, one out of the three display ports on my gpu is not working properly. I keep getting a black screen into windows on the one display port.

I can see the startup screen and go into bios on the "dead" displayport but as soon as windows boots it's a black screen, windows is definitely running behind the black screen. If I unplug the cable from the black screen displayport to any of the other two working displayports I get into windows.

It's not always a black screen though, sometimes I get flickers of the windows desktop, and sometime it rapidly turns my monitor on and off in quick successions. Like I said I do not know if this is a hardware problem because I can boot into bios just fine with the faulty displayport.

Here are some of the things I've tried to resolve the issue.
1. Re-seat GPU, double check all power cables.
2. Tried multiple DP cables, even VESA certified cables.
3. Boot into safe mode, still get black screen.
4. Uninstall all drivers with DDU and reinstall.
5. Fresh install windows. As soon as the fresh windows boots to desktop, black screen.
6. Some other stuff I've read on this thread. 

Please help, I do not want to RMA this card AGAIN, my first ftw3 3080 got destroyed by a firmware update from Precision X1. I have never had so much problems with a GPU this is my first time going EVGA. Sorry if this is formatted/written wrong, I have never posted on a forum ever. I have a video of what goes on when the blackscreen/flickering happens but don't know how to post it on here.

Try enabling CMS support if it's not enabled already.

My RTX3090FTW3 was black screening in some games and while watching YouTube and once with nothing open. Then it went black and never to be working again tried it in 3 different pc's and same thing now, nothing lights up, no fans or display. Windows doesn't recognize it. Only thing I see is one red led on the first 8pin power cable closest to the mounting point.

Haven't got any black screen problem with my old 3090ftw3, but red light of death has come unfortunately

the hotfix worked for me, but i was specifically getting my black screen after starting certain games. just fyi