How to Make a Laptop Screen Go Blank. Disabling your laptop's screen can save on energy use and help protect sensitive information from being seen by colleagues or visitors to the office.

Some users have identified a problem, and NVIDIA has released a new version of their Firmware Update Tool to fix it. Unfortunately, at system boot, some RTX 4090/4080 GPUs may produce blank screens.

“Blank screen no feed now for 5 minutes,” one person tweeted. The outage happened during the three hour finale episode in which Willie Spence and Chayce Beckham were competing for the top spot.