I installed a 1080 Ti and I turn on my PC and it boots up with a black screen. I used onboard graphics and my PC doesn't notices that my 1080 TI is installed. I can confirm the GPU runs fine and so does the rest of my system. I tested my 1080 TI on another PC and I tested my old
MSI AMD Radeon R7 260X OC 2GB GDDR5 works in my PC. I removed all of the AMD drivers, I updated my BIOS and I reset the CMOS
 
 
System specs:
CPU = Intel Core i5-4690K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1150
MB = Z97S SLI KRAIT EDITION
Ram = G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
GPU = 1080 TI Founder's Edition
PSU = CORSAIR RMx Series RM850X 850W 80 PLUS GOLD Haswell Ready Full Modular
HDD = Seagate SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-Inch 4TB Desktop HDD
 

Sounds like a motherboard bios issue.

Howdy all, long time no text.
Little more info on this for you guys.
I've been trying to help them with this issue but am stumped so told them to bring it here.
I've had them update the BIOS to the latest. The 1080 ti works in another system they have with the exact same MB and BIOS version (Latest).
Had them uninstall the AMD drivers via DDU in safe mode. Cleared CMOS as was said.
 
@AHowes Thanks for the suggestion about the PCIe BIOS setting, looking at the MB manual it does have a auto, Gen 1, Gen 2  or Gen 3 only settings. Maybe if it is set to auto switching it to Gen 3 only will knock some sense into it.
 
@Fearpoint Great suggestion and completely slipped my mind. Having them look into that soon as possible.
 

Yeah different settings used in the bios hopefully heh. If not maybe the pci-e slot is toast.. try another slot if possable.

@ Sajin The Motherboard works with other GPUs
@Ahowes the 1080 does power up 
 

Yea thought about the card not fully seating as had that issue once before where an ear was bent a bit on a GPU and hit the case. They looked and it was fully seating.
CMOS has been reset via removing battery method.
Had them try the other PCIe and they received the same result, fan spins up, card lights up but black screen.
 
Other possible relevant info is they originally had a 980ti, that stopped working so they RMA'd  and the 980ti was not able to be repaired so they sent him the 1080ti founders. During the RMA process they were temporarily using the MSI R7 260x.
 
Question for you all as I have certainly not kept up fully on all this but could it possibly be a IRQ conflict causing the issue as certainly the 980ti was never properly removed from the registry, then the 260x was added now the 1080ti. I seem to remember years ago there used a setting in the BIOS to repopulate IRQ's but from looking through manuals and my own BIOS does not look like these modern UEFI boards have that option any more.
Something like this would also correlate with AHowes OS issue theory.
 
 
 

Had issues with installing a ti and ended up using a hdmi then the mb saw it, never did get the dp cable to work ? 

Some times you have to use the Radeon Uninstaller from AMD to get all of the "stuff" off the system
 
How to Uninstall Radeon™ Software from a Windows® Based System
 
AMD Clean Uninstall Utility

Anyone with any theories on why a AMD based GPU works but no Nvidia based ones do?
I do not have any current AMD cards around or I'd put a micrometer on the PCBs and see if maybe the AMD cards have a thicker PCB. Thence possibly the Nvidia cards are not making connection in some way but then the other PCIe slot not working as well kind of rules out some form of warpage or deformity in the PCIe slots unless the manufacturer had a whole bad lot of PCIe slots.

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Anyone with any theories on why a AMD based GPU works but no Nvidia based ones do?
I do not have any current AMD cards around or I'd put a micrometer on the PCBs and see if maybe the AMD cards have a thicker PCB. Thence possibly the Nvidia cards are not making connection in some way but then the other PCIe slot not working as well kind of rules out some form of warpage or deformity in the PCIe slots unless the manufacturer had a whole bad lot of PCIe slots.

Btw.. I'm sure it's the same as they would be all made to the same spec for the pci-e slot.

Running the UEFI BIOS ?
 
Turn Off Fast Boot -- it loads the last drivers it used when it shutdown
 
What OS ?
 
On board Video disabled ?
 
Which outputs did you test on the GPU ?
 
What Monitor & what kind of inputs are supported ?  Is it set to Auto sense the input ?
 
Test several video cables ?
 
 
 
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/mainboard/81373-msi-z97s-sli-krait-edition/
 

squadleader
 I removed all of the AMD drivers, [...]

 

 
Try, if not allready done.
- DDU
- Different pci-slots
 
+ Does your bios "see" the FE?
 

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AHowes
If the new card works in another system with the exact same mb.. can't they just swap the motherboards?? Use the mb thst works with the new card in the system there trying to get to work?

Does the card from the other system work in the bad mothrboard?

The other MB the card works in is being used and is the brothers system. The GTX 970 that is in the other system does not work in the system that no Nvidia cards are working in.
Little more info when they first got the GTX 980ti and put it in he said there was a snapping noise (spark jumping?) when they booted it up. Hence they sent the 980 ti back and it was unrepairable and received the 1080 ti on RMA. So if the snapping noise was something frying in the MB that still does not explain why a AMD based card works, makes no sense to me.
 
They've tried matching all the BIOS settings, did not help.
 
@Cool GTX, I'll have them try turning off fast boot if it is enabled.
Only outputs tested was HDMI as that's the only thing their monitor/s supports.
OS is Windows 10 64 bit.
They've tried another HDMI cable, the one from the known working system.

Sometimes there is no explanation...other than 'there was a snapping noise and now a peripheral no longer works'.  The magic smoke escaped. It could be something as simple as a capacitor or resistor that supplies a sense or BIAS voltage that failed which AMD doesn't use.  Which precise component failed (which is likely given your description) is irrelevant unless you're going to repair it.  In my opinion you've identified the issue as a faulty motherboard. How did they manage to get a 1080 Ti for an RMA versus a 1080?

Yup.. get you a cheap motherboard and move on.

Cool GTX
 
Turn Off Fast Boot -- it loads the last drivers it used when it shutdown

No it doesn't, Windows detects when a hardware change has occured and drops the incompatible restore information.