DOA MSI GTX 980? help me :(

Ghosthud1

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Just wondering if you guys can lend me a hand and hopefully come up with something I haven't tried.

Recently started a build for a friend, nice beefy skylake system ^_^

Everything went as smooth as usual during the building process, until I tried hooking up the graphics card to a monitor/TV, it was a right fussy bugger. Sometimes I got a signal sometimes I didn't it was very sketchy. I somehow got it to post 100% of the time using HDMI on a my TV, but thats when it all went wrong.
Went down for some food whilst leaving it on upstairs, came back from my godlike nachos to see a black screen but a fully powered system that was still in BIOS.

From then on the graphics card has refused to give out a signal and isn't detected in either PCI-E slots, I can't install nvidia drivers and the system is currently running off the Intel 530 IGP.

I've tried the following
  1. Updated motherboard bios
  2. used alternative PSU
  3. tried both PCI-E lanes
  4. Stripped computer to bare minimum to rule out other hardware
  5. CMOS resets/playing with BIOS settings.

Only other thing I can think of is to try the graphics card in another PC, and also try another graphics card in this new PC to rule out either?

Am I missing anything?
 
Are you getting good power to the GPU? If so, does sound like it could be dead. Do you have a different GPU to try? Check that its not a MOBO problem.
 
Tried changing the DVI/HDMI/DP cable you are using for another? Sometimes even the most basic of peripherals/accessories can be to blame.
 
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