That sucks ..... I have had two drives die on me to ....
Getting to the point where you need four or five drives to back up data with the current drive build quality .....
Sorry about the GTX loss.... Sounds like it is dead to me .... I would just slap them on another system to see that will take your 980x out of the equasion
And yes I am on drugs ............
HO HO HO !!!