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

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Posting this on all threads:

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.

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