Hi, I recently had to RMA a gtx 980ti. Upon receiving the RMA'd product in the mail I installed it and began receiving white checkerboard artifacts upon start up, just after the system itself POST's. Shortly after this ether two things would occur: 1) The display would black screen, like my original card that I RMA'd, forcing me to reboot, 2) The computer would display a Blue Screen of Death with the code Video Scheduler Internal Error and force restart.
 
What I have done to troubleshoot:
1) Re-seated GPU
2) Tried another PCIe slot
3) Reinstalled all drivers utilizing Display Driver Uninstaller, and re downloaded the latest driver from the NVIDIA website
4) Completely removed GPU from system, and utilized on-board processor graphics to write this post.
 
I've already started another RMA process, but if any of you guys have any suggestions on how to fix this it would save both me and EVGA time. Unless of course I received a faulty GPU from an RMA which is hard to believe, but I guess it could happen.

That's what I thought. 

I've faced this issue before. This is one of the blue screen of death errors. There are 5 steps that can help you to fix it (One of these steps should solve the problem). For detailed step by step explanation: 
Follow the steps below
1.Scan Corrupted Files
2.Do SFC Scan using command sfc /scannow.
3.Update your current Window's version.
4.Update your pc drivers.
5. Check if there are any hardware changes in your system and fix them.

And delete the Nvidia folder (yes, all the files were in it still) in the root of C:\, do, delete C:\"nvidia"
For some reason, the last time I used the updated ddu, it did not do this for me.
Do this after uninstalling all nvidia, before rebooting after using ddu, so in-between uninstall and running ddu.

And, like I said, it did not delete them for me when I used it.
I guess just check to make sure they are gone before you set to reboot for new card (I always do this for a new driver install, even if its not a new card I am putting in, hoping it will delete everything in prefetches and everything).