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.
Maybe you can log in remotely to investigate. Like if you have Linux and SSH set up for convenience, you could log in from another PC and check the log buffers/files and /proc, lshw or sensors outputs.
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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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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.
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
Does your cpu have integrated graphics? If so you can plug video into the motherboard and update drivers from there.
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.
I’d start by reseating the GPU. Bricking anything is unlikely. Unless you were generating a lot of static electricity and zapping the components.
Also, you plugged the GPU power in, right?
Note: I’m sorta dumb with computers but smart enough to have built 3 that haven’t exploded yet (until now)
Repeating means pop it out and back in right?
Yes.
If you have a BIOS reset jumper, it might be worth setting that during the next boot too.
Tried that, got the monitor to wake up but still didn’t display anything. Then I replaced the power cable to the card and now the whole pc isn’t turning on so looks like I get to figure that out tomorrow. I’ll check if I have a jumper on my board too and get back to you. Thanks for the help though
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.
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, it will. Don’t do that, it’s not good advice, it’s harmful.
Yes, wiping your drive would lose everything on there. Connect your drive to a different computer before wiping if you need to transfer files.
