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3-WAY SLI 980s and an ROG Swift Black Screening on boot

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So here is the problem:

 

A friend of mine rocks an mATX PC with 3-way SLI Gigabyte G1 Gaming 980s (i know it's dumb), an ROG Swift monitor, 5960x on a Rampage V Extreme with 16GB of Corsair Dominator Platinums, and 1 Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SSD. System was rocking flawlessly on windows 7 pro 64 bit until 1 week ago when my friend moved to his vacation home for a week. His PC worked fine, he moved it, started it and.....nothing. The system will boot to windows and will give a black screen after the welcome landing screen. It stays there indefinitely. The system did however boot in safe mode and he deleted the driver with DDU. This allowed him to boot normally and reinstall the driver. The problem came back immediately. We tried System Restore, the windows update driver, and reinstalling windows as a final measure. The problem is still here, except that on the new install he can't even get safe mode to work. The 980s are recognized in the BIOS and in safe mode (when it worked), but when u get the nvidia driver into play...... it craps itself. Since the 980s work, i'm starting to blame it on the nvidia g-sync scaler in the monitor.

 

If u have idea, give them here, quickly. My friend is so frustrated he wants to sell this beast and get a PS4 + Macbook -.-

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Stupid question, but have you checked that nothing got lose or worse durring moving?

 

System was rocking flawlessly on windows 7 pro 64 bit until 1 week ago when my friend moved to his vacation home for a week. His PC worked fine, he moved it, started it and.....nothing.

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So here is the problem:

 

A friend of mine rocks an mATX PC with 3-way SLI Gigabyte G1 Gaming 980s (i know it's dumb), an ROG Swift monitor, 5960x on a Rampage V Extreme with 16GB of Corsair Dominator Platinums, and 1 Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SSD. System was rocking flawlessly on windows 7 pro 64 bit until 1 week ago when my friend moved to his vacation home for a week. His PC worked fine, he moved it, started it and.....nothing. The system will boot to windows and will give a black screen after the welcome landing screen. It stays there indefinitely. The system did however boot in safe mode and he deleted the driver with DDU. This allowed him to boot normally and reinstall the driver. The problem came back immediately. We tried System Restore, the windows update driver, and reinstalling windows as a final measure. The problem is still here, except that on the new install he can't even get safe mode to work. The 980s are recognized in the BIOS and in safe mode (when it worked), but when u get the nvidia driver into play...... it craps itself. Since the 980s work, i'm starting to blame it on the nvidia g-sync scaler in the monitor.

 

If u have idea, give them here, quickly. My friend is so frustrated he wants to sell this beast and get a PS4 + Macbook -.-

rollback the drivers.

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Stupid question, but have you checked that nothing got lose or worse durring moving?

Everything is fine.

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rollback the drivers.

We tried with 352,30 and the one before it = same sh*t.

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I would dobble check, as even 1mm off can create some problems.

Everything is in place and detected correctly in BIOS and it POSTs every time.

The issue has to do with the drivers, windows, and presumably the monitor in my opinion.

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We tried with 352,30 and the one before it = same sh*t.

connect it to a different monitor.

 

try with one gpu. try with one ram stick.

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connect it to a different monitor.

 

try with one gpu. try with one ram stick.

He doesn't have another monitor laying around, unfortunately.

I highly doubt the RAM has to do with it. (as i said, the system POSTs fine)

The GPU thing is a good idea but difficult to do since they are packed in an mATX build, but he can try.

I'm also thinking to try Ubuntu GNOME 15.04, in case windows is somehow at fault, although it was working perfectly fine.

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