I recently bought a GTX 1080ti Seahawk X off ebay for parts. The parts listing seemed it was only a vbios issue and i payed only roughly $150 for it, $120-125 actual cost of the card. I thought I might as well try it. I had tried using the card but obviously the same things happened that the seller on ebay said would, black screen, not able to get into windows (I was able to get into windows twice with the card and without the use of the extra gpu, but it quickly turned into a black screen and I wasn't able to log in). Although I was able to get into the bios and still am. I used two gpu's on the system and was able to get an output off of the other gpu, a 1050. GPU-Z was able to detect the 1080 ti and I was able to use the system normally, after I disabled the card at least because for some reason it was making the whole system extremely laggy, I attempted the vbios update and it worked. After the update though, nothing changed. I tried different vbios's and while the original model of the vbios worked on this card (the MSI Seahawk X edition), it was not able to change from that vbios. It would give me errors and I was also unable to try and turn the safety off of the nvidia vbios tool giving me an eeprom error, although it probably would not have changed much since it was 10~ years ago information I was finding about this issue. Fast forward a week later after I gave up and tried selling the card on FB marketplace, I got some parts I was trying to test out and thought I should try and give this one another shot. After tweaking some non-important bios things I turned on the system. Turns out it started working! It was actually showing input that wasnt only the bios for once. I was very confused on what had changed so I was waiting for it to just suddenly give up and give that black screen again but it was fine, although at like 720p. I knew it was due to something not being there that usually is on windows (I was using an extra storage drive that I had laying around) and I knew it was the drivers but was confused as to why the drivers would make the gpu brick itself. So, I said screw it and decided to try and install the drivers because maybe one of those non-important bios tweaks actually did the trick. Nah. The gpu bricked itself again, giving a black screen with no input, and now I'm back to step one, only without an ATX motherboard I'm able to use two gpu's on. If anybody can try and figure out this problem or even recognize what it could be it would be a huge help. Thank you.
TLDR- broken 1080 ti bricking itself, tried tweaks didnt work, left it for a while, came back, worked with no drivers, tried installing drivers, didnt work again.
I did also try and update the firmware of the gpu since I was told it was different than the vbios but it didnt do anything either.
TLDR- broken 1080 ti bricking itself, tried tweaks didnt work, left it for a while, came back, worked with no drivers, tried installing drivers, didnt work again.
I did also try and update the firmware of the gpu since I was told it was different than the vbios but it didnt do anything either.