test20090424
What a mess! Apparently EVGA made a bad decision on how to handle this black screen issue. Time to correct?

I concur. From looking around, this is not how EVGA is known to handle issues. It's damaged the reputation of the company (even though my card is *I hope* fine and an RMA has been offered) and will make my hesitant about other EVGA products, especially PSUs.
 
However, I will continue to purchase EVGA, but I will certainly not purchase another product just after release, instead I'll wait to see if there's an issue.
 
Edit: For anyone interested, my card's serial starts with 16108 and I've not seen any issues yet.

Something weird has just happened to me and I'm wondering if anyone else has had this happen too?
 
Like others here, my 1080 FTW was black screening with the fans at full speed within 10-15 minutes of playing games like Witcher 3 and Skyrim, except with debug mode on. I sent it off to EVGA Taiwan and I'm waiting for them to receive it. In the mean time, I put my old card (Gigabyte GTX780 OC) back in since advance RMA isn't available here. I have never had problems with this card. I fired up Skyrim and 20 minutes later I've just had the black screen and fans speeding up error happen... so I'm quite confused. Is this a driver issue, or something else? It seems silly, but I wonder if the pci-e slot was somehow damaged by the 1080 FTW - it would explain why a card I've had for around 3 years has suddenly given me the exact same error that I've had with the faulty card. But I've never heard of a card damaging a slot before...
 
I don't know, I'm completely stumped. I'm going to try again in debug mode (this worked with my FTW) and see what happens. 
 
I should mention that I've used DDU and installed the newest drivers every time I've swapped cards, all temps are normal, and I had no issues with the 780 for the week that it spent in another computer while I was using the 1080 in mine. 

tanialovecat
Something weird has just happened to me and I'm wondering if anyone else has had this happen too?
 
Like others here, my 1080 FTW was black screening with the fans at full speed within 10-15 minutes of playing games like Witcher 3 and Skyrim, except with debug mode on. I sent it off to EVGA Taiwan and I'm waiting for them to receive it. In the mean time, I put my old card (Gigabyte GTX780 OC) back in since advance RMA isn't available here. I have never had problems with this card. I fired up Skyrim and 20 minutes later I've just had the black screen and fans speeding up error happen... so I'm quite confused. Is this a driver issue, or something else? It seems silly, but I wonder if the pci-e slot was somehow damaged by the 1080 FTW - it would explain why a card I've had for around 3 years has suddenly given me the exact same error that I've had with the faulty card. But I've never heard of a card damaging a slot before...
 
I don't know, I'm completely stumped. I'm going to try again in debug mode (this worked with my FTW) and see what happens. 
 
I should mention that I've used DDU and installed the newest drivers every time I've swapped cards, all temps are normal, and I had no issues with the 780 for the week that it spent in another computer while I was using the 1080 in mine. 

WOW that is some scary news! Crazy!

tanialovecat
Something weird has just happened to me and I'm wondering if anyone else has had this happen too?
 
Like others here, my 1080 FTW was black screening with the fans at full speed within 10-15 minutes of playing games like Witcher 3 and Skyrim, except with debug mode on. I sent it off to EVGA Taiwan and I'm waiting for them to receive it. In the mean time, I put my old card (Gigabyte GTX780 OC) back in since advance RMA isn't available here. I have never had problems with this card. I fired up Skyrim and 20 minutes later I've just had the black screen and fans speeding up error happen... so I'm quite confused. Is this a driver issue, or something else? It seems silly, but I wonder if the pci-e slot was somehow damaged by the 1080 FTW - it would explain why a card I've had for around 3 years has suddenly given me the exact same error that I've had with the faulty card. But I've never heard of a card damaging a slot before...
 
I don't know, I'm completely stumped. I'm going to try again in debug mode (this worked with my FTW) and see what happens. 
 
I should mention that I've used DDU and installed the newest drivers every time I've swapped cards, all temps are normal, and I had no issues with the 780 for the week that it spent in another computer while I was using the 1080 in mine. 

Is your CPU and/or memory overclocked?  If so, revert to stock frequency and see if that helps.

ksgnow2010
 
 
Is your CPU and/or memory overclocked?  If so, revert to stock frequency and see if that helps.

Nope, neither are overclocked. I haven't overclocked my cards either because the 780 was OC'd by the factory and I wanted to make sure my 1080 wasn't faulty before I tinkered with it (which was probably a good thing in retrospect)

Did you guys tried using the windows 10 GTX1080 driver? I mean remove all the driver from Nvidia and let the windows update and install the m$ display card driver.
 
I did this and seems I can complete the Skydiver test but wanna to get others to try is this is the issue.

yiu1
Did you guys tried using the windows 10 GTX1080 driver? I mean remove all the driver from Nvidia and let the windows update and install the m$ display card driver.
 
I did this and seems I can complete the Skydiver test but wanna to get others to try is this is the issue.

I have not had any problems since receiving my RMA. I ran Heaven last night for 12 hours and this morning it was boosted to 2050Mhz @ 61c still going strong (with XOC on K-boost to max). I also run TimeSpy, FireStrike, etc. (all the free 3dMark benchmarks) several times without any problems whatsoever.
 
I am running on the latest nVidia driver and performed a DDU, and manually deleted Precision XOC registry entries prior to installing the new card.
 
Tonight I will start testing Elite Dangerous as that is the program that would cause crashes 100%.
 
Defective Serial #: 1610xxxxxxxx3140
RMA Serial #: 1612xxxxxxxx0043

msweeney23

yiu1
Did you guys tried using the windows 10 GTX1080 driver? I mean remove all the driver from Nvidia and let the windows update and install the m$ display card driver.
 
I did this and seems I can complete the Skydiver test but wanna to get others to try is this is the issue.

I have not had any problems since receiving my RMA. I ran Heaven last night for 12 hours and this morning it was boosted to 2050Mhz @ 61c still going strong (with XOC on K-boost to max). I also run TimeSpy, FireStrike, etc. (all the free 3dMark benchmarks) several times without any problems whatsoever.
 
I am running on the latest nVidia driver and performed a DDU, and manually deleted Precision XOC registry entries prior to installing the new card.
 
Tonight I will start testing Elite Dangerous as that is the program that would cause crashes 100%.
 
Defective Serial #: 1610xxxxxxxx3140
RMA Serial #: 1612xxxxxxxx0043

Glad to hear your having good luck so far. This is how my card was too initially, it would pass synthetic benchmarks with blinding colors for hours. However loading games the story changed, keep us updated.

I'm curious - does anyone here reading this have or know someone with a 1080 FTW card that does not have the black screen and fan problem? The reason I'm asking is because I sold one of my FTW to my brother and I'm concern if he should get a replacement. He doesn't have any problem yet, but it feels like it's just a matter of time before this problem kicks in.
 

I've had my 1080 FTW for a couple of months...no issues...have it currently overclocked to boost at 2125 MHz (I think it has more, just haven't spent the time.)