I cant open it in safe mode because safe mode doesnt show the drivers for the cards as installed and i dont think i can install them.  I did uninstall MSI overdrive and i told it to NOT save the settings but as far as i can tell it did NOT set the cards back to their defaults.  i think they are clocked at 875 MHZ core and 600 memory.  I even did a system restore to no avail...