Nvidia 196.75 GPU driver burning up graphics cards

User Comments: 85

1. March 7, 2010 9:20 PM
   

   dividebyzero, trainee n00b, said:

   @ Guest/Chazz

   Below is a couple of posts from a forum (not this one I might add). You don't need to look too far on a lot of forums for similar posts. A lot of tech users are savvy enough to pick up the implications when something like this arises. My point is that a rash of spurious RMA /warranty replacements hardly helps the users with genuine complaints.

   Note that it only took twenty posts for some bright spark to postulate a plan...

   #20 03-05-2010, 08:38 AM

   oettinger

   Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009

   Posts: 146

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   WOW, so this means nVidia will have to pay to replace my old 9800 (that is in my kids machine) if I was to fry it with these drivers?? even if it was already out of warranty... Hmmmm.

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   Originally Posted by oettinger

   WOW, so this means nVidia will have to pay to replace my old 9800 (that is in my kids machine) if I was to fry it with these drivers?? even if it was already out of warranty... Hmmmm.

   Could really worth a try. As this bug is OS and not BIOS based, i doubt they have a reliable way (or the time to waste) to check the fry cause

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   Does having your card fried suck...why, yes of course it does, and I certainly hope nVidia/vendors look after the genuine cases. The main cause for complaint as I see it is that unaffected card users planning to bilk their vendors started showing up, in some cases, before genuine complainants.of toasted cards.

   @ Cap'n

   My original post was intended to highlight the nefarious nature of the ambulance-chaser creed, unfortunately even my OTT take on the matters mentioned pale beside the machinations of some "people"...no doubt the same minds that see a natural disaster as being no more than an opportunity to loot the victims.

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2. March 7, 2010 9:31 PM
   

   captaincranky, TechSpot Addict, said:

   I have a question.......

   Wow, where do you get to be a "Senior Member" with only 146 posts. Especially if they're as low a grade as the one you selected. Just in case I feel like slummin' it. Jus' kiddin, perish that thought.

   @ Cap'n

   My original post was intended to highlight the nefarious nature of the ambulance-chaser creed, unfortunately even my OTT take on the matters mentioned pale beside the machinations of some "people"...no doubt the same minds that see a natural disaster as being no more than an opportunity to loot the victims.

   My take that the post was intended to be outrageous but not to evoke outrage is at least partially correct.

   The only person that would be "righteously" indignant or outraged about it, is some a**hole about to try to put their hand in the cookie jar, as it were.

   But the fact America has turned from, "land of liberty" to, "land of parasites, lawyers, and litigation", is a sad but enduring tragedy.

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3. March 8, 2010 12:24 AM
   cocodel said:

   I am on Nvidia but wont take chance updating my driver! wait for fix on this problem

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4. March 8, 2010 11:12 AM
   levar said:

   same here, I gonna check it out once I get home. Haven't been doing much gaming for a while anyways so I good, thanks for sharing this.

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5. March 12, 2010 12:45 AM
   Alphadeus said:

   Geez it's news like this that really makes me nervous. I had never really used my PC for gaming until I got Left 4 Dead on sale from steam for $7.49 during the holidays. I tried to play it but couldn't get a decent framerate.

   I read that the newest driver improved framerates across the board and decided to install it. It didn't help. It actually made the framerate drop to unplayable levels. I had then decided to get a program to monitor my temperatures and was shocked to see my video card running at 120C! I had a 9500GT from a previous computer that I put in out of desperation and it runs perfectly at 42C or so (I'm guessing it's alright since the number isn't red like 120C was :P)

   I'll have to backtrack the driver just to be safe even though I haven't had any issues with it. Thanks for the news. Wish I found this site sooner >.>

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6. March 12, 2010 1:02 AM
   

   captaincranky, TechSpot Addict, said:

   I had a 9500GT from a previous computer that I put in out of desperation and it runs perfectly at 42C or so (I'm guessing it's alright since the number isn't red like 120C was :P)

   Techspot did some tests a while back and found that the 9500GTs ran hotter natively than most or all of the other cards tested. See page here; [link] Hey, I have one too, don't shoot the messenger.

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7. March 13, 2010 6:16 PM
   techsp10 said:

   Somewhat interesting!!! Because it is my first time to hear that a graphics card burn up. It's quite new to me. I'll research about this.

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8. March 18, 2010 9:26 AM
   bigclick said:

   Sometimes the bleeding edge is dangerous to more than the pocket book. I expect this from hardware with total watts outrunning the power supply and things like that. I even wait on Microsoft patches. I never would have considered this possibility.

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9. March 18, 2010 10:43 AM
   

   captaincranky, TechSpot Addict, said:

   Sometimes the bleeding edge is dangerous to more than the pocket book. I expect this from hardware with total watts outrunning the power supply and things like that. I even wait on Microsoft patches. I never would have considered this possibility.

   The gamer is always demanding higher frame rates, and although we don't normally give it much thought, it seems you can attempt to meet those demands with a software "solution". In this case, Nvidia was perhaps a bit too, "successful"

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10. March 30, 2010 4:04 AM
    

    ravisunny2, TS Ambassador, said:

    Any feedback on WHQL graphics driver release 197.13 ?

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