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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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[+] galileopie@lemmy.ml -11 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Do you not have an iGPU? The fact that it happened during gameplay makes me think that you have to zero out your drive and erase it. Not delete your OS but boot into a live USB program to actively write zeros across your drive and re-install OS.

To be sure, you could take out drive and plug into a different system to put from it and see if it works. So far I don't suspect it's a GPU issue but rather a driver or OS issue that only requires erasing your drive.

[–] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Would that erase all my data?

[–] galileopie@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, wiping your drive would lose everything on there. Connect your drive to a different computer before wiping if you need to transfer files.

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