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GTX-980 SLI causes monitor to go black screen!


Venom_X

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I have the configuration below. I can play any game using one video card. As soon as I enable SLI the screen flashes the game then goes black. I have tried each card separately and they both work great alone. I have both cards in x8 PCI slot, so I am not sure if that is what causes it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Case: Carbide Series[emoji768] Air 540 High Airflow ATX Cube CaseMotherboard

 

MSI Z97-G45 Motherboard

 

Processor Intel[emoji768] Quad Core[emoji769] i7-4790K

 

CPU Cooler- Corsair H100I

 

Memory-32GB Kingston Hyper X Fury (Red)

 

Power Supply Corsair RM850W Power Supply Gold Rated.

 

Optical Drive 24X ASUS DVD-RW Combo

 

Graphics-(2) GTX-980 SuperClocked EVGA

 

Sound Card: Creative Labs Recon

 

SSD- (2) Samsung Evo 840 250GB SSD SUPER RAID 0

 

HDD- 2 TB Western Digital 7200rpm

 

Fan Controller Bitfenix Recon

 

OS Windows 8.1 64-bit

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You need to do a complete uninstall of the drivers (link in my sig), and then re-install the drivers. You need to make sure all remnants of the drivers are gone before you install the drivers.

I already installed the drivers twice. I will give it one more shot.

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:thumbsup:

 

Let me know how SLI goes. I've found frame drops to be pretty bad on the GTX 970's in SLI.

 

A review that goes into the frame drops:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_980_sli_review,9.html

 

I only really noticed it in a few games and benchmarks, and in some games and benchmarks it wasn't as noticeable. Still, very annoying. Hopefully a newer driver with SLI Profiles fixes this.

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I ran 3dmark11 and it scored at 19240. That is everything stock, with no O.C. On anything. Framerates were VERY Good.

3dmark11 worked good for me. Try Unigine Heaven (I used 2.1, but it might have the same issue with 4.0 or whatever the latest version is now).

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