Oops. have I bricked my 980?

irtuk

irtuk

irtuk

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Hey all.

A few years back I built this machine with a pair of 980 GTX's in it.

A couple of days back I had to move the machine about a bit, and it sprang a leak. the loop drained, from the back thankfully so not into the machine, CPU overheated and shutdown, general bad stuff happened.

Anyway, so I fixed it all up, got it up and running again and I noticed that my WoW frame rate was really really poor. Mucked about with a few settings then, with no joy I fired up 3D mark which immediately showed a problem, almost zero frame rate on the demo.

Graphics test 1 was interesting because alternate frames were rendering at a high frame rate, and the others at a very low frame rate.

So, I disable SLI, and Lo! the framerate returns to, if not normal then normal for one 980.

The Nvidia drivers recognize both cards, windows recognizes both cards, SLI enables and disables fine, Nvidia inspector can see and tweak both cards but putting the system into SLI mode basically drops the frame rate to about 10 FPS in medium settings on World Of Warcraft.

So, before I break out the wallet, or come up with any other solution, does anyone know of a configuration or setting, or indeed anything that would exhibit this behavior and NOT mean that the card was essentially bricked.

Just as I am writing this I am thinking that I did not check the seating of the SLI bridge post fixing so.... yeah I have that one to check.

Anything else or is it wallet time. the machine is quite old anyway ... darling .... :)
 
I know this doesn't directly help with your problem, but have you tried each card individually in the primary PCI-E slot to confirm that there is nothing/something wrong with either card?

If both work, in both PCI-E slots, you can at least rule out whether or not the issue is with your cards or PCI-E slots. Could also use both sets of power cables to confirm no issue with either of those as well.

Just throwing things out for you to test really, I'm not much help otherwise.
 
General bad stuff happened sound both funny and sad at the same time :)
You said no liquid inside the machine and only the cpu overheated so maybe the cpu is the issue?
 
Thanks for the replies folks. Not quite bricked but near enough. It functions as a basic vga card but the 3d acceleration is borked. Weird one I popped the backplane off the faulty card and I have evidence of leakage. At the back near power inputs, couple of blown transistors or wotnot.

Managed to score a pair of 980tis this morning off fleabay so they are going in and the surviving 980 will go into a build for sale.

Onwards!!
 
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