I built this PC about a year ago with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, an MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16GB Shadow 3X OC, an ASUS TUF Gaming B850-Plus WiFi, 32GB Kingston FURY Beast DDR5, and Windows 10. The system uses a Corsair RM1000e power supply.
For roughly six months, CS2 and DayZ have occasionally caused every monitor to go black for around 10 seconds. Windows keeps running, but the game closes or crashes. It happens about once every week or two, and Event Viewer records Display 4101 warnings alongside nvlddmkm error 153 messages showing GPUID 100. There are no Kernel-Power 41 events.
I have used DDU in Safe Mode, installed the latest NVIDIA and AMD chipset drivers, updated the motherboard BIOS from version 1022 to 1681, disabled EXPO so the memory is currently running at 4800 MT/s, cleaned the system, and reseated the 12V-2x6 GPU power cable. The game crashes have not happened since these changes, although it has only been a couple of days.
The BIOS update and boot-setting changes introduced another problem. With CSM disabled and Secure Boot enabled, cold boots sometimes show a repeated, distorted ASUS logo with purple and green artifacts for 10–15 seconds before Windows starts. It happens with different DisplayPort ports, two monitors, and only one monitor connected. Restarts are normal. With CSM enabled, the artifacts disappear, but the system can remain on a black screen during a cold boot with the motherboard BOOT LED lit until I press Ctrl+Alt+Del. The boot order is correct, and setting storage boot support to UEFI first did not help.
Has anyone seen similar POST artifacts or cold-boot stalls with an RTX 50-series card? Could a motherboard BIOS or GPU firmware update resolve this, and does the Display 4101/nvlddmkm 153 pattern suggest a failing GPU, power-delivery problem, or something else?
3 Answers
I had very similar 4101 and nvlddmkm errors with an older RTX 2060. My displays would go black and sometimes stay that way until I restarted the computer. After a while, the card eventually failed completely, and replacing the GPU fixed the problem. That does not prove the 5080 is faulty, but the GPU should stay high on the list of suspects if the crashes return after the software and BIOS changes.
Do not overlook the power supply and GPU power connection. The RM1000e has enough rated capacity on paper, but it is still worth checking that the 12V-2x6 connector is fully seated and that the cable is not sharply bent near the plug. Run a repeatable GPU stress test such as FurMark, and also try a combined CPU/GPU load. If the problem can be reproduced outside CS2 or DayZ, that points more toward hardware, power, thermals, or the driver rather than a game-specific issue.
I have a Corsair RM1000e and have never seen the black screen outside a game. I will try a longer FurMark run. So far the crashes have stopped since the recent BIOS and driver work, but it has only been a couple of days.
A similar pattern happened with my old RTX 4080 shortly before the card failed completely. I would not treat that as a definite diagnosis, especially since the POST distortion and BOOT-LED stall could also involve firmware, UEFI/CSM compatibility, the motherboard, or the display initialization path. If the artifacts continue with current BIOS settings, test with another GPU if possible and check whether the motherboard has a newer BIOS or the card has an available VBIOS update. If another GPU boots normally and the 5080 reproduces the issue, an RMA or replacement becomes much more likely.
Were your errors happening outside games too? I updated the drivers and BIOS recently and have not had another crash, although the cold-boot stall is still happening.