Black Screen while loading in to an Escape from tarkov game, needing to hard reset my pc in order for everything to start working again. It's only happening when i play in 4k not 1080p. I've tried every solution listed in this thread and some of the others on this forum, none have worked. If someone has a similar problem and was able to fix it i'd like to hear the solution. For now i'm looking for an Asus strix 3090 lol

The 461.51 hotfix driver did it for me.
No more tdr/black screen while browsing with hardware acceleration ON.
Seems to be the first driver since november, that is working problem-free with my 3080 FTW3 Ultra.
Took long enough.
 
Now we just need a good release finally from the PX1 software, that really does reliable what it promises, and i will be satisfied.

Nervous about pulling the trigger if my waitlist email ever comes in... 30 series having lots of issues :X

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

 
I got that finally after 2 months, very sad. Mine was occasionally black screening when VRAM usage was high. I tried uninstalling the graphics driver and reinstalling, and during that it did the pop and died forever. I can't say that the driver reinstall was the cause but it was pretty much immediately after uninstalling, when starting the reinstall of the driver.

So I received a brand new EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra. It is black version and made in Taiwan. I have put it through the paces and it is really crap in the silicon lottery department. I can barely overclock core by 145 MHz and memory by 900 MHz before I see artifacts/crashing.
 
However, that is not the point. After reading the issues around black screen and many threads my card is showing all symptoms.
It does overvolt to 1.081 volts at idle. It does draw more than 80 watts from PCIe slots (even though only saw it once). However, it has not done any black screen or other issues yet. I haven't even tried a game yet. Can someone guide me how else to diagnose? Do I need to install precision and update firmware? Shall I try a different bios. It has only been 2 hours but the symptoms described that kill the card slowly over months seem to be all there. 
 
Do let me know what else to try/do?

I began getting the black screens randomly with the 461 drivers (3080 Gaming) while browsing the web or while just sitting idle.  Up to this point, I never had ANY issues at all.  Any driver after 461 gives me this error.  My screen never comes back to life until my computer is rebooted.  It happens sometimes almost immediately after a reboot, sometimes after I've been browsing the web for a couple of hours, but it ALWAYS happens when browsing or idle, and never happens in a game.  For now, I've gone back to 456.71, but hope this issue is fixed asap...I like to stay up to date with my drivers...

Good guide, thank you for it

Hello
 
First time poster so please go easy on me :).   Right having read through this very important topic I thought I'd throw in my experience/theory to what might be causing this issue.  First off I own the EVGA 3070 XC3 Ultra  (which I'm absolutely loving) as opposed to the 3080 or 3090.  I have not had the black screen issue at all during gaming or browsing.  However I have had it on occasion either when I turn my computer on; the system & gpu turn on (fans, rgb etc) but I will sometimes get a black screen instead of my motherboard (MSI B550i wife edge) logo appearing.  When this happens the only way to remedy this is to hold down the power button, then restart and everytime I do that it works/boot's up fine.  The other time I sometimes get this problem is when I try to wake up my PC from sleep mode, every now & again it will black screen and once again this can only be remedied by holding down the power button. 
 
Until recently hearing on YouTube about a YouTuber (Thaigo from Classical Gaming) having to RMA his own EVGA 3090 with a black screen/dead GPU and then later signing up to these forums I was completely unaware that this "might" be an issue with the EVGA 30 series cards.  Obviously after reading through the 6 pages of posts above I now know that it isn't just something effecting me in fact it seems the problem is unfortunately a lot worse for some of the others.  
 
However I'm not so sure the problem lies with our/EVGA's cards.  The reason being I have also had one of the above problems (the waking up from sleep mode black screen) occasionally occur on another recent PC build of mine which houses an ASUS RTX 2070 OC MINI a completely different card & brand.  Now both of my systems are similar: NR200p Chasis (1 Black, 1 White), MSI B550i Wifi Edge Motherboards, Ryzen CPU's (a 5600x & a 3600) both have corsair RGB Vengence Pro Ram (32GB, & 16GB), both have their OS installed on Gen 4.0 Seagate Firecuda 500GB M.2s, both have Corsair Platinum SFX PSU's (1 x 750w, 1 x 600w).  So the only major difference between them is the brand & model of GPU which is why I'm wondering weather there something else going on here.   Is it a Gen 4 thing? Motherboards are Gen 4, OS's installed on Gen 4 M.2's (perhaps).  A Corsair SFX PSU thing? (unlikely) Or could it be something else?  Thing is they both share Corsair's ICUE software controlling the RGB.  Someone has already mentioned this in a previous post and I think it could be a possibility for RBG controlling software is known to sometimes cause issues (uninstalled my MSI Dragon Centre/Mystic Light for this reason & cannot run NZXT's CAM software at all as it crashes my computer every time) I for my part will look to visit the Corsair forums to see if there are any threads on there about this possibility. 
 
So in conclusion it would be interesting to know how many of the people who are having black screen problems share either any my hardware componants (other than the Gpu) & more importantly the ICUE software that I have installed and if they feel that this might be the common denominator?

my 3080 started having black screen issues after nvidia's driver updates.

@syu1087 Nvidia's driver updates are a definite possibility for I find they often seem to make things worse and it is something we both (as well as anyone else with a nvidia gpu) would have in common.  Is there a way to roll back these updates? For it would be interesting to test this out.