Hello,
I seem to have a bit of a strange problem with my Windforce GTX 970 card and I thought someone here might be able to shed some light on the issue.
I've had the card for almost a year now and it's been working fine up until a week ago when all of a sudden my computer pretty much froze. I could move the mouse pointer but the rest of the system was stuck and after a hard reboot I got "no signal" on both DVI-ports. Rebooting again and clearing CMOS didn't help.
Since I had an older Windforce GTX 660 laying around I tested with that card (in the very same PCIe port) instead and everything worked fine.
After this I figured that the GTX 970 card was simply broken so I returned to the local store with it. They tested it and claimed that it was in fact working. So, I went back home, and tested it again, still "no signal". As a last resort I tried another one of my PCIe slots, and it worked!
Now, what I'm a bit curious about is how/why the GTX 970 card would no longer be "accepted" by one of my PCIe slots, where the GTX 660 still works fine? Any thoughts on this matter?
Guess I should also mention that my MOBO is a Gigabyte X99-Gaming 7 (yes I like Gigabyte...).
