Background: I was helping my little bro with his GTX 1080 problem - black screen, fan spinning and then long white bar during a boot. It crashed again while playing games, such as CSGO and Overwatch. There was nothing wrong with it for 30 days before the issue struck. He and I have almost identical setups except for CPU cooler, SSD, RAM and PSU. He is using triple monitors including one 144hz monitor in the center, while I'm using ultrawide monitor.
His setup:
MB - ASUS Z170I Pro GamingCPU - Intel Core i7 6700KCPU Cooler - Corsair Hydro Series H60 Liquid CoolerGPU - EVGA GTX 1080 FTWPSU - EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2RAM - Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 3200SSD - Samsung 850 EVO 500GBHDD - *I forgot the name but I don't think this has to do with this problem* Again, mine is almost identical as his. I only have:
CPU - Coolmaster Hyper 212 EVOPSU - EVGA SuperNOVA 650 GSRAM - G.SKILL TridentZ 16GB DDR4 3200SSD - Samsung 840 EVO 500GBHDD - N/A His first GTX 1080 FTW faced similar problem as you guys have. He filled his RMA and received the replacement three days later, which was last Friday. Same problem appeared in this replacement. He ended up asking me to do hardware swap with him. After I installed the replacement in my setup and play games for an hour, I had not yet receive any problem. He asked me to use my RAM but I had to disable the XMP in the bios before he was going to use mine. The problem disappeared with XMP disabled in his setup. This is not final solution yet - the issue came back half a day later. He was distressed and about to request for second RMA. I took time figuring out and realized that SSD in his setup has not configured yet. So I install Samsung Magician and applied "Maximum Performance", it didn't crash during few hours of playing Overwatch. No downclocking/undervotage involved. It remains stable at stock overclock speed of 1950MHz at 65°C. That was happened yesterday (Saturday) and I periodically monitor his setup. I haven't witness and hear any issues from him ever since.
I think the memory has to do with this FTW issue but I don't know the exact cause. There's one person from few pages ago mentions similar issue as I wrote above. Pretty much the PC hasn't configured yet, not only for GPU. So much unexpected stuff going on, like GPU can change the way the PC behaves.
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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.
See attached screenshot – This is what I did, I only applied "Maximum Performance". Probably, virtual memory is a culprit but don't quote on me because I'm not really sure. If you don't have Samsung SSD, this may give you an idea. For HDD only, try fixing the virtual memory. Try first before you request for a RMA.
