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Removed my SLI and extra 1080, started up fine, froze, and now video won't display (self.buildapc)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by 5oap10116 to c/buildapc

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

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?

[–] 5oap10116 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

If you have a BIOS reset jumper, it might be worth setting that during the next boot too.

[–] 5oap10116 2 points 3 months ago

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

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