I'm thinking my 780i is DOA

[NosBoost300]

one thing after another huh?

did you install the board w/ the risers in? and if so... did you put in ones you didnt need.. something simple could have been causing it to short.. i had the same problem w/ my 680i a few days ago

 

[Sox18]

Okay, I'm posting from the new rig. It turns out that it had to be reseated and that the drivers needed to be downloaded and installed. The ones on the disk simply weren't compatible, which is funny because it's an EVGA board and GPU. Oh well, I'm off to play my cod4