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.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    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.worldOP
      11·
      5 days 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.

    • 5oap10116@lemmy.worldOP
      21·
      8 days ago

      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?

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        Yes.

        If you have a BIOS reset jumper, it might be worth setting that during the next boot too.

        • 5oap10116@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          8 days ago

          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

      • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
        2·
        8 days 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.