Removed my SLI and extra 1080, started up fine, froze, and now video won't display (lemmy.world)

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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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[-] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Would that erase all my data?

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago

Yes, it will. Don't do that, it's not good advice, it's harmful.

[-] galileopie@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 days ago

Yes, wiping your drive would lose everything on there. Connect your drive to a different computer before wiping if you need to transfer files.

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