1080 Black Screen issue?!?

TiniestCosine65 · September 30, 2017

Hey guys. have a weird question today. Back in December I bought a Gigabyte G1 Gaming 1080. It has been awesome, seems to have been working flawlessly. A couple weeks ago I moved into a new house. Of course this meant transporting all the computers. Ever since moving in, my computer will completely randomly shut down the screen and the 1080 fans will go straight to 100% and will stay till I hard reset the computer. After finally doing a little research this morning I found out that this was an issue at some point that the EVGA FTW cards were going through. But. I feel like if it was a card issue like that it would have been happening since I bought it, not almost a year after. I am currently updating my graphics driver this morning to see if that helps. I do stay on top of updates pretty good though so don't really think that is the problem. And after work I plan on reseating the graphics card to see if it shifted a little during transport. Any other ideas would be really appreciated, don't want to lose this card.

Anghammarad · September 30, 2017

Like you are going to do later, the first thing after a big move when hardware gets wicked, I take it apart and reassemble it. Rams, Cards, every cable etc...

With that dust it out as well, perhaps shake the case gently to hear if something has become lose inside...

Go for BIOS default settings.

Put the 1080 into another pcie slot to see if the fault moves with it if after reassembling the fault persists.

If this doesn't help, I know sounds funny but, plugin the computer to another power outlet in preferably another room and see if it behaves the same.

After all this done, when the fault persists, it's time to really troubleshoot, or if you still got warranty on the card, send it in.

TiniestCosine65 · September 30, 2017

1 minute ago, Anghammarad said:

Like you are going to do later, the first thing after a big move when hardware gets wicked, I take it apart and reassemble it. Rams, Cards, every cable etc...

With that dust it out as well, perhaps shake the case gently to hear if something has become lose inside...

Go for BIOS default settings.

Put the 1080 into another pcie slot to see if the fault moves with it if after reassembling the fault persists.

If this doesn't help, I know sounds funny but, plugin the computer to another power outlet in preferably another room and see if it behaves the same.

After all this done, when the fault persists, it's time to really troubleshoot, or if you still got warranty on the card, send it in.

Thanks very much for the quick reply. I dont know why I didnt think abouy reseating sooner. It just popped into my head this morning on my way to work. Will keep the thread updated on if it fixes it or not.