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

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by 5oap10116@lemmy.world to c/buildapc@lemmy.world

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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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[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

ReSeating, not rePeating. But yes. It's probably just GPU sag causing the card not sit properly in the slot. With the SLI bridge you had probably the weight of two GPUs weighting down the PCBs a little. Loosen the screws, push it in a bit (or pull it out fully and insert it again) and while tightening the screws make sure the card is a little aligned towards the top until they're tight. Make sure your gpu power cable is properly seated too. If the card happens to still sag a lot you could also try to find something to lift it up, but make sure it is something that is a) not conductive and b) not gonna damage anything if it potentially falls over.