Please Help 1080ti Problems

olivanderbolton45

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Hey guys so here are my specs:

MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON
Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core
G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 16GB (2 x 8GB)
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 LED
SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 500GB SSD
EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2 PSU
MSI GTX 1080 TI AERO 11G GeForce GTX
Thermalsuke Case
DELL G SYNC MONITOR
Windows 10
(Anything else you need to know let me know)

So recently after I updated my drivers using GeForce experience I boot my computer up and the bios screen looks fine But when the OS loads it had green and white lines and was at a very low resolution. Checking the device manager I see code 43 device stopped working. So first thing I try is DDU clean install an older driver. Problem seems fixed awesome great. But then I notice I’m getting very low FPS in pretty much any game. Checking MSI Afterburner I notice memory clock is stuck at 405 MHz even while gaming etc. In GPU-Z it doesn’t show the memory type. So I tried removing the gpu and checking/cleaning with compressed air then reseating it and even plugged a new cable into it from the PSU. I tried updating bios and clean installing windows. I’ve messed around with every Nvidia setting or Nvidia profile inspector setting known to man. Only thing that seems to help is ddu cleaning the drivers then rolling back to an old driver. This will make it work for a few hours but when I shut down my computer and boot it the next day one of those two problems will be back.
I have not over clocked the card or done anything weird with it. I did test the monitor with another machine and it’s fine. Tried a different DisplayPort on card and different cable.

So what I’m wondering is do I have to RMA this card because I lost the receipt and would have to try to get microcenter to reprint it for me.

Please if you can help me let me know I would PayPal u some money if you could help me find a solution thanks in advance.
 
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How so? Are you not using them to the highest potential? Go into your MSI app and select some other power mode, not gamer or overclocked. Maybe just go for default or User defined. Set everything on 0 there, by 0 I mean no + or - gains. Then see if the problem repeats. Then try setting - on your core and VRAM, if that stabilizes it, you should contact your seller and tell them your card is not performing to the specified out of the box clocks and is faulty.

Cioby

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Why don't you just stick with the old driver? Do you have automatic updates on Nvidia? Not even sure if that's possible. If you've tried so much stuff, why not just pull out your motherboard battery and reset your bios?
 

olivanderbolton45

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Thanks for the reply. I will try resetting the bios again. And I don’t believe Nvidia has auto updates or that I have anything like that turned on. I even turned off windows auto device drivers. When I roll back to the old driver it works for a few hours or so and the following day the problems are back.
 

Cioby

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I assume the card is in slot 1 or 4 of your motherboard and the card worked well before. And the card or PC hasn't suffered any damage recently and it's well mounted with the screws in so as not to damage it. Interesting a card like that would fail so soon. Try resetting the battery on the motherboard or reinstall your OS, I don't know what BIOS settings you have or if it would reset stuff by itself that would be the thing I'd look into if it were me.
 

olivanderbolton45

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Well I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks it’s strange. I did reinstall the OS to
no avail and the bios are on default settings no OC but I’m gonna reset the bios battery to see if that does anything. Yes it’s mounted in the correct slot with screws and no damage it worked perfect since I bought it in August.
 

Cioby

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How so? Are you not using them to the highest potential? Go into your MSI app and select some other power mode, not gamer or overclocked. Maybe just go for default or User defined. Set everything on 0 there, by 0 I mean no + or - gains. Then see if the problem repeats. Then try setting - on your core and VRAM, if that stabilizes it, you should contact your seller and tell them your card is not performing to the specified out of the box clocks and is faulty.
 
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