{
 "id": "fix-for-all-black-images-from-sdxl-checkpoint",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Fix for all-black images from SDXL checkpoint asianRealismByStable_v30FP16 in ComfyUI: CLIP-L layer 11 is all-NaN, force clip skip 2",
 "symptom": "Every generation from asianRealismByStable_v30FP16.safetensors renders solid black; sampler reports success, no errors in comfyui.log",
 "hw": [
  "rtx-pro-5000-blackwell"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "comfyui@0.32.0",
  "asianRealismByStable@v30FP16"
 ],
 "intent": "bringing up a civitai SDXL checkpoint in ComfyUI via the h3 pic command",
 "date": "2026-08-13",
 "status": "superseded",
 "cost": "4 debugging rounds: suspected fp16 VAE overflow first (downloaded sdxl-vae-fp16-fix, no change), then scanned safetensors headers per-tensor with torch.isfinite to find the NaN layer",
 "author": "sarg",
 "superseded_by": "fix-for-all-black-images-from-civitai-sdxl",
 "handle": "sarg",
 "locked": [
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "body"
 ],
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}