Zotac's New BIOS Update Aims To Fix Black Screen Glitch On RTX 5060 Ti

Issues with unexpected black screens on Nvidia GPUs have been casting quite the shadow on the company's GeForce RTX 50 series cards lately. There's some hope on the horizon though, at least for Zotac GeForce RTX 5060 Ti card owners that are experiencing black screen issues.

The annoying black screens come in several varieties, as attested by yours truly -- on POST, on Windows boot, when the PC is coming back from sleep, and occasionally even when the monitor is simply turning on after you move the mouse or press a key. Zotac's fix is specific to its 5060 Ti cards and pertains black screens after rebooting.

The company claims the root cause is "use of a legacy motherboard", although without more specifics, there's no telling what exactly Zotac considers "legacy." If we had to guess, we'd say it means AM4 motherboards or older. Since you ...