I'm having problems with gtx 980 cards! Every one crashes!

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thebigguy1955

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OK, I'm on my third evga super clocked gtx 980. Every one, upon boot, shows the motherboard splash screen (which will not respond to any command, so I can't get into bios), beeps 3 times, then crashes to a black screen with a single blinking cursor, that will allow me to nothing. My current hardware is a ECS Golden Z77H2-Ax with a i7 3770k cpu running on a Corsair AX860 psu and 16gb of Corsair Vengeance RAM. I run 2 MSI 680s in SLI currently and thought I would just switch to the 980 to dodge a couple minor SLI related hiccups and also figured I could slap in another 980 down the road, like I did with my 680 card(s). I uninstall the drivers, unplug EVERYTHING from the computer, take out the old cards, put in the new one, plug everything back in and.....splash screen, beeps, crash. Is there a compatibility issue I'm not seeing? Is there a uninstall process that I'm not doing correctly (I uninstall through the device manager)? Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
 
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I see a lot of these new card that with out a good/new bios update just fail to work some guys just end up sol cause they don't get any bios that may support there new cards ??

its sad when a vid card is not as plug and play anymore ..
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Alan Caldwell

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Try this, it might work.
First of all you need to TOTALLY remove all the old drivers. Use this link.
http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/
Note:
Select the respective company(i.e Nvidia or ATI) drivers to be uninstalled.
Use clean and restart option.
And then install the new drivers after rebooting.
 
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coozie7

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It's incredibly unlikely you've had 3 bad cards.
The fact the system falls over before any drivers have time to load suggests a hardware problem.
First, return the BIOS to its factory defauts.
Update the BIOS, if an update is available, that is. Be advised, flashing the BIOS is a potentially risky operation, proceed only if you fully understand how this is done. If possible, print off the instructions so you have hard copy to refer to if you are uncertain at some point during the process.
The 3 beeps indicate a memory problem, try it with only one module in at a time.
 
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Alan, I will look into that and perhaps give that a try.

coozie7, if it were a memory problem, wouldn't it happen regardless of the graphics card I have in the MB. Because once the 980 crashes, I pull it out and put my 680s back in and everything works fine. The first time this happened I even tried running a 680 in the primary graphics slot and the 980 in a secondary slot. I got the same splash and crash scenario.
 
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Your link is a virus! Like I didn't have enough problems...........
 
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This link should be safe enough: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html the download links are at the bottom of the page.
I've run into a similar problem before and the issue was resoled with a BIOS update, but if Junkymonkey is correct (and I have no reason to doubt him) the latest BIOS available will not be compatible with the GTX980, it's just too old.
All I can now suggest is you try to contact ECS for an update or consider either a different card or, as a final option, changing the motherboard.
 
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Who told so? It is not. It is the official page of DDU.

 
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thebigguy1955

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Well, as it turns out, my motherboard just did not like the new card. Hard to believe that a 2 year old MB could fall so far behind so fast. Rebuilt my computer with a new cpu/mb and 980 is working fine now. Thank you for your answers.
 
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