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Nvidia driver 196.75 frying your graphics card?
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:25 pm
by flangyflange
Seems there's a problem with Nvidia's latest driver 196.75. Your graphics card may overheat:
http://www.incgamers.com/News/21293/nvi ... ideo-cards
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.
Re: Nvidia driver 196.75 frying your graphics card?
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:28 pm
by Redddraggon
Ok, I just back home, and I was just about to install the update this second actually, won't bother now.
Re: Nvidia driver 196.75 frying your graphics card?
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:45 pm
by Exibit
Dam I already installed it
Re: Nvidia driver 196.75 frying your graphics card?
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:44 pm
by shutteh
me2. played last night css and l4d2 without anyproblems but I deinstalled it now and reinstall the old version.
Re: Nvidia driver 196.75 frying your graphics card?
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:10 pm
by Slartibartfast
I've been using all day playing bfbc2 with no problems . Idiling at 45 , gonna put it under load now and see how hot it gets. Probably best off removing em though.
Re: Nvidia driver 196.75 frying your graphics card?
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:48 pm
by Slartibartfast
Running at 55c slightly overclocked and under load . Seems Blizzard are blaming Nvidia and vice versa .I've seen some reports of cards running at 115c after a short time with these drivers .
Re: Nvidia driver 196.75 frying your graphics card?
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:10 pm
by Slartibartfast
Re: Nvidia driver 196.75 frying your graphics card?
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:12 am
by Slartibartfast
Seemingly the drivers aren't controlling the fans properly which is leading to overheating.I didn't suffer this problem but I have rolled back the drivers just to be on the safe side . I'm sure it'd be a nightmare trying to get nvidia to replace a fried card.
Re: Nvidia driver 196.75 frying your graphics card?
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:40 am
by flangyflange
My guess is the problem occurs only with certain Nvidia cards. Judging on base of the Nvidia forums the 9800GT is a good candidate for roasting.
Re: Nvidia driver 196.75 frying your graphics card?
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 3:04 pm
by Slartibartfast
Funny its a 9800gt I have , just very lucky I suppose.The worst thing is although the drivers have been removed from nvidia's downloads page , there are no warnings to anyone who might have downloaded the drivers in question.
Re: Nvidia driver 196.75 frying your graphics card?
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:36 am
by Slartibartfast
Lokks like the drivers have been fixed and updated .
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_197.13.html
The performance increases are pretty hefty if true.
Re: Nvidia driver 196.75 frying your graphics card?
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:26 am
by Exibit
Thanks Slarti m8 will try again and hope these are ok