As noted in my post above (#314), I did try shiloh's method, made a few attempts to generate SSDTs to fix this but I was not successful. But @gialeocomopardo and
@kgp have 1080 cards, and they have been successful. However, they have their cards in the very first slot (closest to the CPU), and mine was in a different slot, and I thought that might be a problem (but as it turned out that was not the case). Also we all have the same board: X99-A II, so that might be an issue too for those who have a different board. Giacomoleopardo has a 6900k in his systems and KGP and I have 6950x cpus. The only final thing I did that was different was I plugged my display port cable into a different port on the back of my card. I can't believe that might have been a cause of the failures, but maybe.....