Removed my SLI and extra 1080, started up fine, froze, and now video won't display (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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[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago

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.

[-] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

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

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 hours ago

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.

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