Nvidia 196.75 GPU driver burning up graphics cards

im pretty sure i have 196.75 driver on my desktop.. i left my desktop on over the weekend.. hope nothing happens to it.

I never have 3d card but its very bad news to the owner who purchase those cards.....company must responsible for their acts. with out testing the hardware with driver they never have to released it......it can damage their business policies.

most of the user buy the product with popular brand exceptional case is who doesn't afford brand they goes to cheaper hardware.

this is the lession for the company.

Why, because AMD drivers don't suffer from bugs ? Or because you like the idea of a discrete graphics monopoly bringing about lower costs ?

Was there ever?
Personally, I prescribe to the "buy the best graphics solution that best meets your needs within your budget" ethos. I'll leave loyalty to dogs and the Swiss Guard.

I don't really remember AMD drivers bricking your card and potentially your system. No one can expect to have perfect coding everytime, but I think this is a bit serious. As for the buying the best value comment, I feel people should always do that..and if they did the competition between AMD/Intel/nvidia wouldn't be historically one sided as it has been.

i had the new driver (196.75) about a few days, i just did a check on my gpu temperature which stays around 52 degree.... I must say i will roll back to older version just for safety. Another blow for nvidia again

I haven't had any issues with my GTX260 or 8800GT and this driver, but i'm going to roll back just in case!

My 8800GT died as a result of this. Would not be telling the truth if I said I wasn't pissed. I went out and replaced it with a Radeon HD 5770. Would be nice to be compensated for my loss. I never overclocked or stressed that card in any way. I should have gotten more use from it. Sucks...

I can't find any new driver features for my 8800, so I've stopped updating my driver version.

I guess I missed out. I wonder if Nvidia would have given me a new card if their driver burned this one up?

What happened to quality control Nvidia?....

I thought these drivers were awesome, i got like 40% more fps everywhere, no problems for me i keep my fans at 100% lol

Hmm, this is why I wait at least a week before upgrading hardware level drivers.

I downloaded this driver and did suffer really bad frames in WoW. Luckily my temperatures were not bad. I reverted back to the old drivers. How did Nvidia allow this to slip through the cracks?

Im glad i read this since just a few weeks ago i was doing a driver search to see if there were new drivers that were released, the havock the bad driver would have caused me would have drivin me to drink again lol

Somehow I downloaded 196.21 yesterday, so I hope I was lucky ...It's just nvidia misstake like we see everyday by millions of other manufacturers.

Mine never runs above 50C, no aftermarket stuff either

Ya know, this reminds me of the Toyota recalls. Before the recalls, nobody even heard of runaway acceleration. Now it seems everybody's Toyota is completely out of control. Nothin' I like better than the smell of blood in the water, and nothin' gives me a bigger orgasm than the thought of an impending lawsuit.

I don't suppose any of these video cards that burned up could have been, um like, already overclocked or anything? In too small of a case maybe? Poor ventilation?

Actually, it sounds like Nvidia was cleansing the hive as it were, casting out the sick, the weak, and the lame!

I hope the Toyota's don't come with Firestone's

don't forget cigarette smoke. an acquaintance of mine wanted me to look at his machine a couple of weeks ago. His CPU was running at 86c, and his Graphics card was at 117c. not that he knew that, he just said it was acting funny. upon removing the left side of this thing the inside looked like one big grey bunny slipper. when I asked him when was the last time he blew it out...he said I cant do that!...it will void my warranty.:rolleyes:

Judging by the fatalities-including I believe a police officer- what kind of driver education do they have in the U.S.? I've had stuck accelerators on occasion ( frayed cable, damaged cable sheathing) and all I've ever done is slap the transmission into neutral. It's not rocket science.

Just as well you don't work for Rambus...you'd die of exhaustion!

My guess would be that the black market for 196.75 will spring up so that "poor affected users" can trash their cards to get upgraded RMA replacements. Expect a rash of irate posters screaming that their dearly beloved 7600GS was K.I.A. and their vendor wont upgrade them to a GTX470.

Wont be long before Steve Jobs and Ballmer adapt the strategy I'm sure !

basically you send in two boxtops from favorite sugared cereal ,like sugar frosted crunchy ****'ers, and they will send you one....at least that's how it appears from many on the road....oh and calling road rage a "disease".

God, I have 2 desktops here on a 2 X 4' piece of particle board up on sawhorses, and I always seem to pick the wrong keyboard and mouse. That said, back to topic.

>>> Holy crap, you need a license to drive? Wait til I tell the Liberians around here. They think you just steal a car, drive it around for a while, then ship it to Africa.

You watch it mister, road rage is a disease. So is being allergic to people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. :rolleyes:....so there!

Not to mention the habitual abuse of Viagara and Extends.