980 ti sli issues! Please help!

[Gravityshot]

Hey guys I could really use some help! 

Iv been running a g1 980ti in my pc fine so I decided to get a second But with both cards in the computer won't detect either cards! Iv tried swapping both cards and tried different slots. Both cards work fine by them selfs in any PCI slot! Iv all so reset the bios! 

 

Iv got a g1 sniper 3 mobo

3770k CPU 

1000w psu 

and 16gb corsair dominator ram

 

any help would be greatly appreciated! 

 

[MoonlightSylv]

Do you have an SLI bridge? Also what 1000w PSU are we talking about?

[Colin_97]

This sounds dumb, but you could try and just restart the PC itself. See if that works

[iNoa97]

Did you screw around in the bios or oc your old card? If so try clearing cmos

[Gonio]

As mentioned, do you use SLI bridge? it's overall delivered with mobo.

[Gravityshot]

Yea I used a a bridge and Iv cleared the cmos. Is an antec 1000w psu. When both the cards are in the pic just defaults to the on board gfx and the pc can't see the cards in device manager 

[Gravityshot]

20 minutes ago, iNoa97 said:

Did you screw around in the bios or oc your old card? If so try clearing cmos

I used afterburner to oc when I had one 980ti installed 

[Gonio]

Not sure for your mobo, but does your mobo have a extra power port on mobo for the PCIe slots? And check the manual for the proper slot config for SLI, so that you know what slots you should use. Could also try to do a fresh install fo Nvidia drivers. Just download latest, select manual install and choose the option for a fresh install.

[luckydog32]

Go into your bios and try swapping your graphics adapter from igp to dGpu.

 

Took a screen cap from a video showing your mobo bios. Make sure these settings are correct:

 

 

[Gravityshot]

8 hours ago, Gonio said:

Not sure for your mobo, but does your mobo have a extra power port on mobo for the PCIe slots? And check the manual for the proper slot config for SLI, so that you know what slots you should use. Could also try to do a fresh install fo Nvidia drivers. Just download latest, select manual install and choose the option for a fresh install.

The nvida drivers can't find the cards and won't even install  

[Gravityshot]

7 hours ago, luckydog32 said:

Go into your bios and try swapping your graphics adapter from igp to dGpu.

 

Took a screen cap from a video showing your mobo bios. Make sure these settings are correct:

 

 

Thank you very much for all your trouble but that didn't help either. I think I might need yo upgrad my pc as nothing is working. My mobo might be defective and I didn't know because this is the 1st time I've tried sli 

[Gonio]

But if you go 1 card it works?

[jjohnthedon1]

What's ur Mobo and does it support sli 

[jjohnthedon1]

Yup googled ur board it only supports crossfire

sorry bro u need a new board

[RxL]

9 minutes ago, jjohnthedon1 said:

Yup googled ur board it only supports crossfire

sorry bro u need a new board

That is false? ive linked he motherboard below its crossfire and SLi

 

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4169#ov

 

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4169#sp

[jjohnthedon1]

6 minutes ago, RxL said:

That is false? ive linked he motherboard below its crossfire and SLi

 

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4169#ov

 

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4169#sp

The one I found on nova said crossfire only and it would explain a lot 

[Gonio]

His support SLI.

 

Anyway as I mentioned before how are your slots populated?

1. 2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x16 (PCIEX16_1, PCIEX16_2)
   * For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16_1 slot; if you are installing two PCI Express graphics cards, it is recommended that you install them in the PCIEX16_1 and PCIEX16_2 slots.
2. 2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x8 (PCIEX8_1, PCIEX8_2)
   * The PCIEX8_1 slot shares bandwidth with the PCIEX16_1 slot and the PCIEX8_2 slot with PCIEX16_2. The PCIEX16_1/PCIEX16_2 slot will operate at up to x8 mode when the PCIEX8_1/PCIEX8_2 is populated
3. 2 x PCI Express x1 slots
   (The PCI Express x1 slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)
4. 1 x PCI slot

[Gravityshot]

For anyone googling. Gigabyte RMA'd my mobo and works fine now. They said it had a faulty chipset or something. I ended up upgrading to skylake while my mobo was away just so I could play games