Dark Black Screen with Backlight After Reboot on Zorin OS 17

Installing Zorin OS
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Hi everyone,

Dark black color screen with backlight on after reboot with Zorin OS 17 and NVIDIA drivers 550.90.07 installed. I'm using a GTX 1070 connected via DisplayPort to an ASUS VG278Q monitor. After rebooting, the monitor becomes unresponsive no buttons work, and it stays black color screen, even though the computer is running in the background.

The only fix so far has been to unplug and replug the monitor, which then displays everything normally. This issue does not happen when I power off and turn the system back on, but it also occurs after using suspend. I have tried enabling HardDPMS in the xorg.conf file with no luck.

Any suggestions on how to solve this black issue?

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Because You use an Nvidia Card: Are You running Zorin with Xorg? Yes, I read that with the xorg.conf File. But that doesn't have to mean that it runs with Xorg. to check that go to Settings>About and there look for the Line ''Window Manager'' and look what there stands.

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Its a nvidia driver bug. The nvidia forums is full of it.