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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I know it sounds stupid...

But when you cut your GPU power almost in half... You turned settings down a lot right?

That would cause the crash, and sometimes a crash just kinda sticks, no fans, no lights, no output.

You have to flip the switch on the supply and do the hardest of reboots.

Like I said, you probably already did that stuff. But I've seen it happen.

The first thing you should always do is try turning it off and on again

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

So I've had my SLI disabled for a few years now because no games still support it, so I know I can run these games on a single card.

I've already done the hard PS switch reset.

Everything lights up in the case itself but no video output comes out.