Im building my wife a PC and now that my SLI is useless (for a few years now), I figured I’d give her my extra GPU.
I disabled the SLI in the control panel, powered down, popped the SLI and 2nd GPU out and gave my wifes pc the extra 1080. My PC started up fine, I booted up a game, and about 10 min in, the screen froze for about 10 seconds and then appeared to restart and now I have no video output. Did I brick my gpu? Any ideas on how to proceed?
I’m only panicking a lot.
I know it sounds stupid…
But when you cut your GPU power almost in half… You turned settings down a lot right?
That would cause the crash, and sometimes a crash just kinda sticks, no fans, no lights, no output.
You have to flip the switch on the supply and do the hardest of reboots.
Like I said, you probably already did that stuff. But I’ve seen it happen.
The first thing you should always do is try turning it off and on again
So I’ve had my SLI disabled for a few years now because no games still support it, so I know I can run these games on a single card.
I’ve already done the hard PS switch reset.
Everything lights up in the case itself but no video output comes out.
Okay a lot going on here and not really a lot of information
First thing I would check is does your motherboard have error lights? Even my computer thats 20 years old has lights that flash in patterns as booting. You use this to find out which part of the booting sequence failed, power, ram, video card, CPU etc. Find out which motherboard you have and find the owners manual. If you have SLI available it’s an expensive motherboard and most likely has this feature.
Second, double check everything is plugged into the motherboard, ram all cables etc. Something may have shaken loose?
Might be worth physically inspecting the video card. That you could boot up once makes me think this failed. Maybe a capacitor on the video cap exploded or got knocked off.
Lastly try and take the 1080 out of your girlfriends computer and see if you can boot with that. This would help narrow down issues?
One more thing check if you have an igpu. Something may have failed and the motherboard switched to on board graphics. They’ll be extra vga/dvi/HDMI ports on the back. Your lack of video could just be from having your display plugged into the wrong port. So try to hook up into any video out put there.
Also perplexity, chat gpt and Gemini can be helpful in trouble shooting.
Godspeed
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Fixed: this was my first ever build and after reseating my gpu, I saw some less than intelligent wiring (6+2 pin coming out of my card, daisy chained to a 6 pin that then went into the VGA port on my power supply). I cringed and pulled those wires and replaced it with a PCIE cable from my wife’s new build (the reason I removed my 2nd 1080 in the first place). That cable only went into a CPU slot on the power supply but didn’t think much of it. Turns out using cables that are not associated with your specific PSU is a nono. Everything works fine and I am dumb for several reasons but at least I learned with (seemingly) no catastrophic consequences.
Thank yall for your help and consideration and sorry I wasted your time.
Just to be safe do a clean install of the nvidia drivers. I’ve never personally ran SLI but who knows what might linger. Or if you really want to 110% it download DDU and the drivers. Reboot into safe mode (hold down shift when you click reboot, then pick the startup options), uninstall the driver, restart again (ideally with network disconnected) and install the nvidia drivers.
The only time DDU has fixed something a clean install didn’t was when I was really messing with some settings, but it doesn’t hurt to do it that way.
Updating drivers was suggested by a friend to do after I started up but now I don’t have any video output so I guess I need to figure something else out . I feel dumb
None at all? Like not even the bios splash screen? Or if that goes by too quickly the bios itself?
Also double check your cable is fully inserted just in case. Both on the monitors end and the GPUs.
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Fixed: this was my first ever build and after reseating my gpu, I saw some less than intelligent wiring (6+2 pin coming out of my card, daisy chained to a 6 pin that then went into the VGA port on my power supply). I cringed and pulled those wires and replaced it with a PCIE cable from my wife’s new build (the reason I removed my 2nd 1080 in the first place). That cable only went into a CPU slot on the power supply but didn’t think much of it. Turns out using cables that are not associated with your specific PSU is a nono. Everything works fine and I am dumb for several reasons but at least I learned with (seemingly) no catastrophic consequences.
Thank yall for your help and consideration and sorry I wasted your time.
Not sure since SLI is so niche I had to look up to remember what it is, but basic things to dummy check:
-are the various cables connected properly/card seated properly
-have you put the gifted wife-GPU into your system to test to see if that works on its own
-Is the GPU getting the proper power allotment since you reconnected things
-is your power supply failing
-Are there any past configurations you did to the failed card itself to enable SLI that its now expecting to see a second card and failing since its gone, beyond windows config.
-Is there something in the BIOS causing an issue
-is your MOBO failing
-have you given proper tribute to the local land god recently
if you have on board graphics with your cpu I’d connect your monitor to at least get into your BIOS and or Windows to poke around some more.
hard to really give any ideas not knowing the rest of your system but it’s also a possibility with a card that old that it might’ve just finally died. the 1080 is pushing a decade at this point.
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Fixed: this was my first ever build and after reseating my gpu, I saw some less than intelligent wiring (6+2 pin coming out of my card, daisy chained to a 6 pin that then went into the VGA port on my power supply). I cringed and pulled those wires and replaced it with a PCIE cable from my wife’s new build (the reason I removed my 2nd 1080 in the first place). That cable only went into a CPU slot on the power supply but didn’t think much of it. Turns out using cables that are not associated with your specific PSU is a nono. Everything works fine and I am dumb for several reasons but at least I learned with (seemingly) no catastrophic consequences.
Thank yall for your help and consideration and sorry I wasted your time.
No worries, in my mind this community exists for stuff like this. Glad you got it figured out!
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After you power the system on, does pressing the capslock key cause the corresponding light on the keyboard to change states?
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Once the system is powered on, does the monitor and its backlight stay on? Or does it fall back to a “no signal” mode?
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Do you not have an iGPU? The fact that it happened during gameplay makes me think that you have to zero out your drive and erase it. Not delete your OS but boot into a live USB program to actively write zeros across your drive and re-install OS.
To be sure, you could take out drive and plug into a different system to put from it and see if it works. So far I don’t suspect it’s a GPU issue but rather a driver or OS issue that only requires erasing your drive.
Would that erase all my data?
Yes, wiping your drive would lose everything on there. Connect your drive to a different computer before wiping if you need to transfer files.
You have no idea what you’re talking about, please refrain from giving computer advice
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Fixed: this was my first ever build and after reseating my gpu, I saw some less than intelligent wiring (6+2 pin coming out of my card, daisy chained to a 6 pin that then went into the VGA port on my power supply). I cringed and pulled those wires and replaced it with a PCIE cable from my wife’s new build (the reason I removed my 2nd 1080 in the first place). That cable only went into a CPU slot on the power supply but didn’t think much of it. Turns out using cables that are not associated with your specific PSU is a nono. Everything works fine and I am dumb for several reasons but at least I learned with (seemingly) no catastrophic consequences.
Thank yall for your help and consideration and sorry I wasted your time.
I would still call this a personal success because how much you learned from this about cable management. I trust that from now on you will never take whatever random cables and p’ug them into whichever connection that looks. I hope also understand that it’s not always possible to diagnose a system issue without personally looking at it and trying to use it to see what is going on. For me, I would never think of asking the person if their video crd is daisychained but because is something normally never done. Each GPU gets their own cables plugged directly to the power supply
I vaguely remember ~7 years ago when I built it having issues with the gpus. The main issue was that I needed to boot my OS with a single card, get everything up and running, then shut down again and add the SLI and 2nd card. I also vaguely remember thinking the wiring was silly but it worked and for 7 years it was “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” until now.
Update on my building journey: my wife’s new build (waiting for 3 more case fans):
That’s a good build for her, a very nice setup.
Now you know that SLI doesn’t mean anything anymore. It’s always better to buy a single higher GPU than 2 lower ones. And given how high the prices go, there’s no limit on how much a person can soend on one.
I will recommend that if you buy a 5060 or 5070 in 6 months, your wife will immediately see a big boost in performance in anything and everything she does on computer.
So you know, for gaming, the 4060 beats the 1080 Ti. The 4060 does AV1 video encoding, I don’t think even the 3090 has that. Definitely not the 2080 Ti. So ifyou buy a 5060 or 5070 to put in her system, everything will run flawless. I don’t know if that 1080 is actually restricting ir limiting her CPU performance. That’s another reason to upgrade an 8 year old GPU, it will allow the CPU run constantly run at full speed.
Yeah my sli was useless about 4 years ago when games stopped supporting it. That’s why I’m giving her my 2nd card because it’s useless in my rig.
As for a new build for me, I should probably just wholesale and upgrade to a DDR5/current chip mobo because I think my i7 6700 is really what’s holding me back past my card.
X870 board and a 9800x3D? What is your GPU?
