For me you are already the hero Bob- I spend two night's for this story...and I was closed to take my guns...
I will check the modell nr, but it is one of Acer based on the intzel x 299.
between the PCIe slots are two m2 slots and I installed two ssd- don's know if this could be a reason...
I installed both cards as single and they worked perfectly before I installed both for sli..or the try for sli...