An emergency update from Nvidia for PCs with older graphics cards

emergency Firmware update has been released before nvidia for users who have it older graphics cards on their computers and in particular Pre-RTX era models.

In particular, there have been reports of issues from quite a few users with GeForce 10, GeForce 900 and GeForce 700 GPUs if the monitor is connected via DisplayPort 1.3 or DisplayPort 1.4. In fact, not only were users seeing black screens, but there were also reports of systems not booting, with the graphics card completely blocking the boot process.

Wanting to rectify the situation, Nvidia has released the “NVIDIA Graphics Firmware Update Tool for DisplayPort 1.3 and 1.4”which detects if the graphics card really needs a firmware update and updates it.

For users who cannot unlock their PC at all, the company recommends the following steps:

• Boot with DVI or HDMI
• Boot using a different screen
• change the boot mode from UEFI to Legacy; or UEFI legacy.
• Boot with an alternate graphics source (secondary or integrated graphics card)

Then, once they are able to unlock their computer, they are required to follow the instructions that the update tool will show. Below you can see which graphics cards can be affected by the problem and if there are any, you can download the firmware update Click here.

Graphics cards affected by the black screen issue when connected to DisplayPort 1.3 or DisplayPort 1.4:

NVIDIA TITAN Series:
Titan X (Maxwell), Titan X (Pascal), Titan XP

GeForce 10 series:
GeForce GT 1030, GeForce GTX 1050, GTX 1050Ti, GTX 1060, GTX 1070, GTX 1070Ti, GTX 1080, GTX 1080Ti

GeForce 900 Series:
GeForce GTX 950, GTX 950Ti, GTX 960, GTX 970, GTX 980, GTX 980Ti

GeForce 700 series:
GeForce GTX 745, GTX 750, and GTX 750Ti

frame series:
Quadro-Maxwell and Pascal products may be affected.

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