Orange Pi 5: No graphics when booting the UEFI arm64 images

[snow]

Greetings, I have an Orange Pi 5 with the edk2 1.1 UEFI bios on the SPI, and an NVMe installed.  The BIOS has been set to "Mainline" in the device tree option
I tried visiting here https://armbian.com/boards/uefi-arm64 and burning the minimal current6.18.8 CLI image to my USB stick.

The Orange Pi 5 displays the graphical grub menu with no problems, complete with penguin in the background etc, but once I choose the boot Armbian option, it displays a few lines of terminal output and then the monitor goes black as if the GPU is initializing and a desktop or graphic would be about to show - when instead, the monitor just reports no signal instead.

The system isn't frozen, the perhiperals are on and I can alt+ctrl+del to reboot it.

It's just attached to a very basic 1080p ASUS monitor that only does 60hz so I'm not sure what could be wrong

Thanks for any advice

Edited 1 hour ago by snow