Since rolling back to 368.81 driver the issue has not happened again. 

how long have you tested it for? some other people have had the problem on 368.81 too
 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

Hasn't happened in a week. 
 
I'd also like to add when I was on the 372.54 the crash only happened when I was playing a game on the highest settings. If I lowered settings it never crashed.
 

Ill try rolling back the driver to 368.81 like you did tasbx and try the bench again. if it lasts longer than 15min ill keep it going and report back.

I was with 368.81 and it still crashed after few hours of gaming. Now I am on .25 the temperatures are high but it didn't crash in 2 hours of the witcher 3.

I received my GT 1080 FTW today from Scan.co.uk and am experiencing the same crashes to black screen and fans spinning up to 100%. Very disappointed. I'll try and roll back to an earlier set of drivers.

J0NOX
Hey people, I also have this problem.
I sent my first card back about a week and a half ago because of coil whine. Tried loads of stuff to get rid of the coil but no luck (new psu, burn in test etc).
 
I just got my rma 1080 FTW replacement yesterday and unfortunately that also had the same level of coil whine ..so I though I would learn to live with it rather than yet another rma.
So I booted up the heaven benchmark for the first time with the new 1080 ftw. After 15min of running the bench I got a black screen and a hoover like fan noise from the card.
 
 
The card reached about 70°c on ultra, and about 55-60°c on low settings with a lower resolution ..all setting resulted in the same black screen fan problem after about 15-20min running heaven.
Tried just about everything to get it working, I lastly used debug mode via the Nvidia control panel and still no luck.
 
I did not have this problem with my first card and I haven't changed anything in my system since. I now wish I didn't rma my first card, but you don't really expect anything like this to happen I guess.

Interesting.

Confirmed roll back to 368.81 didn't work for me.  I was on latest drivers (372.54), didn't work either.  I have GTX 1080 FTW DT at STOCK/DEFAULT settings.  I do NOT want to try debug mode because that is NOT why I paid premium to buy a EVGA card with aftermarket cooler and factory OC.
 
Far Cry Primal, Crysis 3 blank screen + full fans comes up especially quickly.
 
I also followed instructions for driver cleaner, uninstall, unseating, switching PCI E slots.  As others have said here, clearly a hardware issue (not driver issue either because other brands do not have this issue).
 
This is getting a bit ridiculous.  I bought this card in Hong Kong and I think RMA won't even help because they'll just send me another defective card and retailers in HK do not even do exchanges past 7 days purchase....... I am stuck with EVGA.
 
I'm a first time EVGA customer and NEVER AGAIN

Same for me. 1st time buying EVGA GPU but I think I won't ever buy from 'em again. Especially with their low profile on the issue, did not read anything from them.

Tried with 368.25 and nothing, still black screen and max rpm.
 
Monday I will ask for an advanced RMA or refund.