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.
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.
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
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.