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.

  • Donebrach@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Not sure since SLI is so niche I had to look up to remember what it is, but basic things to dummy check:

    -are the various cables connected properly/card seated properly

    -have you put the gifted wife-GPU into your system to test to see if that works on its own

    -Is the GPU getting the proper power allotment since you reconnected things

    -is your power supply failing

    -Are there any past configurations you did to the failed card itself to enable SLI that its now expecting to see a second card and failing since its gone, beyond windows config.

    -Is there something in the BIOS causing an issue

    -is your MOBO failing

    -have you given proper tribute to the local land god recently

    if you have on board graphics with your cpu I’d connect your monitor to at least get into your BIOS and or Windows to poke around some more.

    hard to really give any ideas not knowing the rest of your system but it’s also a possibility with a card that old that it might’ve just finally died. the 1080 is pushing a decade at this point.

    • 5oap10116@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 month 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.