Weird Graphics Card Error

[Brennlamb]

Hi,

 

I was curious if anyone has heard of this issue I'm having.  If I have a monitor plugged into my displayport or hdmi out on my 980ti gpu (I'm running SLI so there's two) my motherboard gives me a b2 error (on both boards I've used it is a cpu memory initialization error) and won't even load the bios.  I cannot get anything out of the second card, and its water cooled, so until I take it all apart I won't know if both are having the same problem.  However, when plugged into the dvi port I can get into windows safe mode, for a while I could kinda get into windows, but it would lose signal after a while, and I lost my windows installation somehow when I tried to reset windows, thinking it might be an os problem and it lost signal halfway through, now it can only stay safe mode (different installation on a different disk).  I initially thought it was the motherboard or CPU, and tested my cpu with a different motherboard, ram, and graphics card and it worked just fine, booted into windows, etc.  I have validated all of my hardware separately from the gpus and will leave a list of what my system currently is, and what I've used to determine that everything works fine without the graphics cards.  I was curious if anyone had heard of this happening and knew of a way to fix it before I take apart my system again and RMA my card, EVGA tech support seems to believe it is the gpu's causing the error the several times I've called them, but I just wanted to see if anyone else had any ideas.

 

My Current System:

i7 5930k-not overclocked currently, was capably of 4.5 

Asrock x99 Taichi

64gb Crucial 4x16gb DDR4 2400 mhz ram

2x EVGA K|ngP|n 980ti GPU

1000w EVGA 1000 T2 80+ Titanium certified PSU

 

Troubleshooting Stuff:

EVGA Micro 2 motherboard - original motherboard

Corsair 16gb 4x4gb RAM

AMD 5450

Seasonic X-series 1250w 80 + gold certified PSU

 

If I missed anything or made mistakes, I apologize, I'm new to the whole post on forums thing.  Any questions I will try to answer eventually if not immediately.

[anybodykek]

CPU memory initialization error? Perhaps your RAM is an issue? Check which slots they are plugged into, and reseat them.

 

I've seen this before. A DVI out works but HDMI/DP doesn't and it usually gives a POST code.

[Brennlamb]

I have tried 2 kits of ram on two motherboards, and I've reseated and swapped around my current kit several times with no results.