{
 "id": "fix-for-all-black-images-from-civitai-sdxl",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Fix for all-black images from civitai SDXL checkpoints in ComfyUI: CLIP-L layer 11 all-NaN is a COMMON merge defect, force clip skip 2",
 "symptom": "Generations from a civitai SDXL merge render solid black; sampler reports success, no errors logged",
 "hw": [
  "rtx-pro-5000-blackwell"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "comfyui@0.32.0"
 ],
 "intent": "bringing up civitai SDXL checkpoints in ComfyUI (h3 pic command)",
 "date": "2026-08-13",
 "status": "working",
 "cost": "4 debugging rounds on the first model (wrongly suspected fp16 VAE overflow first); the scan then caught the same defect in 2 more downloads instantly",
 "author": "sarg",
 "supersedes": "fix-for-all-black-images-from-sdxl-checkpoint",
 "handle": "sarg",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "body"
 ],
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}