NVIDIA: risk of ‘frying your card’
p2pnet view P2P:- “We are aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues with the latest 196.75 WHQL drivers on NVIDIA.com”, says the company.
“Until we can verify and root cause this issue, we recommend that customers stay with, or return to 196.21 WHQL drivers. Release 196.75 drivers have been temporarily removed from our Web site in the meantime.”
Behind this bland-seeming notice is a serious threat.
Warns TFTS >>>
If you have these drivers presently installed you should act to remove them pronto and if you have these drivers installed and you’re seeing sluggish frame rates you should remove them doubly pronto until Nvidia fix the fan control issue and release a fixed version
You’ve been warned. Act now or run the risk of frying your card.
Says Inc Games:
“We reached NVIDIA tonight for an official statement concerning this worrysome issue, and they quickly replied within less than an hour. NVIDIA’s response is:
We are aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues with the latest 196.75 WHQL drivers on NVIDIA.com. Until we can verify and root cause this issue, we recommend that customers stay with, or return to 196.21 WHQL drivers. Release 196.75 drivers have been temporarily removed from our Web site in the meantime.
One report cited “insane egg-cooking temperatures as high as 104′C”, says the story.
Stay tuned.
..… and identi.ca
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TFTS – Nvidia 196.75 Graphics Drivers Pulled [Nvidia 196.75, March 5, 2010
Inc Games – NVIDIA 196.75 kills video cards, March 5, 2010
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March 5th, 2010 at 11:09 am
Every driver Nvidia puts out is worse than the last.
March 6th, 2010 at 11:41 am
+1 to that.
March 6th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
I would also like to add that Linux users should probably not update or reinstall Nvidia drivers at the moment. I have reinstalled 2 older Nvidia drivers (not at the same time) which worked previously, and both of them are now giving me a specific error re “libGL.so.1″ not being checked. The latest driver which is apparently cause vid cards to run hot apparently fixes this issue. Right now I am stuck with a whacky screen resolution which is probably not going to get fixed until the hot driver is fixed (possibly a week). Not happy.