980ti SLI Issues

NightmanCometh

Commendable
Dec 19, 2016
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I've been having an issue lately. If I have SLI enabled and try to run a game the PC will crash after a few minutes of playing. After restarting, the computer won't recognize the second video card (device manager says it's disconnected). At this point, if I shut the PC down and start it it'll recognize the second card but if I enable SLI the same thing will happen again.

GPU: 2x ASUS Poseidon 980ti, 6GB vram,
CPU: Intel core i7 6700k, no overclock
Motherboard: MSI Z170A Gaming M7, bios version 1.G
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4, 3200Mhz
PSU: Corsair AX1200i, 1200w
Operating System & Version: Windows 10 64 bit clean install
GPU Driver: 376.33 clean install

It's important to mention that this issue has been happening off and on for a year and a half, and for the past 6 months my SLI has been wortking without problems. It wasn't until roughly a week ago that it started up again. Something seems to trigger the issue, it usually persists for a number of weeks, then it'll stop happening.

Troubleshooting I've Tried: Clean installed Geforce drivers using DDU (several times). Turned off Windows 10 auto-driver update feature. Removed/re-inserted both video cards, cleaned PC and connections w/ air in a can, inspected for any damaged connections (saw none). Ran GPU-Z and saved a sensor log during crash : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1OMFFPZ5KiacENmSDY3dTZlRTg/view
 
Solution
I suggest testing each card separately with some games. If its the cards I have see leaks that Nvidia is about to launch the 1080ti with a step up program for 980ti owners getting first chance.

Has this issue only been in windows 10? If so try windows 7.
I suggest testing each card separately with some games. If its the cards I have see leaks that Nvidia is about to launch the 1080ti with a step up program for 980ti owners getting first chance.

Has this issue only been in windows 10? If so try windows 7.
 
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