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#1 2026-07-08 01:24:19
- Purple-Chicken
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- Registered: 2026-07-07
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GA403UI - Intermittent Black Screen on Boot for builtin display
Upon booting, after the startup logo shows up, the screen goes entirely black, instead of showing me GRUB or BIOS (when I try entering it). The expected behavior is being able to see those when I boot.
The issue can best be described as intermittent (as I can't exactly figure out what is causing the issue), however recently I have got it to work when booting with
Below are the output of some commands I ran after getting the screen to show on boot
`fastfetch -c none`
purple@ArchG14
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OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403UI_GA403UI (1.0)
Kernel: Linux 7.0.12-hardened1-2-hardened
Uptime: 19 mins
Packages: 828 (pacman)
Shell: bash 5.3.15
Display (Unknown-1): 2880x1800 in 35", 60 Hz
Terminal: /dev/pts/0 10.4p1
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS (16) @ 5.26 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q / Mobile [Discrete]
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
Memory: 1.31 GiB / 30.64 GiB (4%)
Swap: 0 B / 4.00 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 41.62 GiB / 949.37 GiB (4%) - btrfs
Local IP (wlp3s0): 192.168.2.5/24
Battery (A32-K55): 97% (7 hours, 38 mins remaining) [Discharging]
Locale: C.UTF-8pacman -Qs nvidia*
local/egl-gbm 1.1.3-1
The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.21-1
EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/egl-wayland2 1.0.1-1
EGLStream-based Wayland external platform (2)
local/egl-x11 1.0.5-1
NVIDIA XLib and XCB EGL Platform Library
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 610.43.02-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 1.5-4
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/linux-firmware-nvidia 20260622-1
Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for NVIDIA GPUs and SoCs
local/nvidia-open-dkms 610.43.02-3
NVIDIA open kernel modules - module sources
local/nvidia-utils 610.43.02-3
NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/nvtop 3.3.2-1
GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIAsystemd-analyze cat-config modprobe.d
# /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-sleep.conf
# https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/595.45.04/README/powermanagement.html
# Enable Suspend Notifiers for faster and more modern suspend
options nvidia NVreg_UseKernelSuspendNotifiers=1
#
# The destination should not be using tmpfs, so we prefer
# /var/tmp instead of /tmp
options nvidia NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp
# /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-utils.conf
blacklist nouveau
blacklist nova_core
blacklist nova_drm
# /usr/lib/modprobe.d/systemd.conf
# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
#
# This file is part of systemd.
#
# systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# When bonding module is loaded, it creates bond0 by default due to max_bonds
# option default value 1. This interferes with the network configuration
# management / networkd, as it is not possible to detect whether this bond0 was
# intentionally configured by the user, or should be managed by
# networkd/NM/etc. Therefore disable bond0 creation.
options bonding max_bonds=0
# Do the same for dummy0.
options dummy numdummies=0
# Do the same for ifb0.
options ifb numifbs=0lsmod | grep -E "amdgpu|nvidia"
nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight 12288 0
nvidia_drm 167936 0
nvidia_uvm 2457600 0
nvidia_modeset 1921024 1 nvidia_drm
nvidia 18186240 2 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
amdgpu 16920576 0
amdxcp 12288 1 amdgpu
drm_panel_backlight_quirks 12288 1 amdgpu
gpu_sched 73728 2 amdxdna,amdgpu
drm_buddy 28672 1 amdgpu
drm_ttm_helper 20480 2 amdgpu,nvidia_drm
ttm 126976 2 amdgpu,drm_ttm_helper
video 81920 5 nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight,asus_wmi,amdgpu,asus_nb_wmi,nvidia_modeset
wmi 36864 5 video,nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight,asus_armoury,asus_wmi,wmi_bmof
drm_exec 12288 1 amdgpu
i2c_algo_bit 24576 1 amdgpu
drm_suballoc_helper 16384 1 amdgpu
drm_display_helper 290816 1 amdgpu
cec 98304 2 drm_display_helper,amdgpulspci -d ::03xx
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation AD106M [GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q / Mobile] (rev a1)
65:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] HawkPoint1 (rev cb)cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/power/runtime_status
suspendedcat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:65:00.0/power/runtime_status
activeThings I have tried:
Reinstalling Nvidia Drivers
Reinstalling Arch via Arch Install Wiki
Update BIOS
Changing various GRUB and modprobe configs
How this issue started:
About a month ago I had an interrupted `yay -Syu` update (through closing the lid, which I set up to hibernate in hyprland), which is when the black screen issues started occurring, Fortunately I could ssh into my machine, and after a couple reboots or power cycles, the screen would randomly start working again, then stop once I rebooted. That is how I was able to reinstall Arch using the official wiki, and set up another ssh tunnel before I would be locked out again.
Last edited by Purple-Chicken (2026-07-08 02:13:31)
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#2 2026-07-08 07:08:00
- seth
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Re: GA403UI - Intermittent Black Screen on Boot for builtin display
instead of showing me GRUB or BIOS (when I try entering it)
If this also affects the pre-boot system on cold boots (fully powered down, not a warm reboot) it's not *overly* likely to be related to the OS, though
Display (Unknown-1): 2880x1800 in 35", 60 Hz
That suggests you're running on the simpledrm device
intermittent
This is a notebook? Do you use the internal panel or an external monitor? Can you attach a latter? Does that also drop out?
however recently I have got it to work when booting with [sic!]
Booting with what? 
Because of the simpledrm device: "nomodeset"?
Kernel: Linux 7.0.12-hardened1-2-hardened
Assuming the amdgpu module leaves the HW in an undefined state, do you get reliable behavior w/ the LTS kernel?
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