This could potentially break Safe Mode, which uses generic display drivers. For that reason I think it's more serious than the article suggests. If you need to go into Safe Mode, likely your computer ...

Although predominantly identified as a mostly isolated issue, earlier this month Nvidia confirmed that a number of 4090 graphics cards would only display a black screen when a system was booting up.

NVIDIA Graphics Firmware Update Tool has been released in order to fix the user’s screen. It is a simple tool and all it does is update the graphics driver. It first checks if the driver is applicable ...