Recently released on the market, the GeForce RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti sometimes display a black screen during reboots, especially with older configurations. Fortunately, NVIDIA quickly identified the problem and now offers a solution to resolve it, in the form of a firmware update for these new-generation graphics cards. Oddly enough, only the RTX 5060 (Ti) are affected; Other RTX 50 Series and older GeForce RTXs do not exhibit this behavior.
A compatibility issue between vBIOS and motherboard
The manufacturer has not detailed the exact cause of this black screen issue, but it appears to be an incompatibility between the graphics card's vBIOS and some BIOS/UEFIs on older motherboards. In practice, the manufacturer recommends updating the motherboard's BIOS to the latest available version, then rebooting in UEFI mode. A second graphics card – or the use of the processor’s integrated graphics engine if it has one – may be necessary to complete the operation.
Then simply launch the NVIDIA’s dedicated tool to update the GeForce RTX 5060 (Ti) firmware, which will then verify that the update is indeed necessary. The manufacturer also adds that if the motherboard does not support booting in UEFI mode, you will need to contact the manufacturer of the specific RTX 5060 (Ti) model used to obtain firmware compatible with CSM (the UEFI BIOS compatibility mode). Far from being trivial, the operation remains sufficiently risky in any case that NVIDIA requests that you only perform it if you are specifically affected by this black screen problem.
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