Nvidia 196.75 Drivers Cause System Damage - Revert Now!

[BadJuju]

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/new...eating_reports

[ggirod]

Re: Nvidia 196.75 Drivers Cause System Damage - Revert Now!

A good summary From Slashdot.org

After a group of StarCraft II beta testers reported technical difficulties following the installation of NVIDIA driver update 196.75, Blizzard tech support found that the update introduced fan control problems that were causing video cards to overheat in 3D applications. "This means every single 3D application (i.e. games) running these drivers is going to be exposed to overheating and in some extreme cases it will cause video card, motherboard and/or processor damage. If said motherboard, processor or graphic card is not under warranty, some gamers are in serious trouble playing intensive games such as Prototype, World of Warcraft, Farcry 3, Crysis and many other games with realistic graphics." NVIDIA said they were investigating the problem, took down links to the new drivers, and advised users to revert to 196.21 until the problem can be fixed.

[D-Mack]

Re: Nvidia 196.75 Drivers Cause System Damage - Revert Now!

I have onboard intel graphics with Win 7 and I had to reboot because this thing forgot to use the fan after a couple of hibernations. I noticed it because my keyboard got so hot ....

[BadJuju]

Re: Nvidia 196.75 Drivers Cause System Damage - Revert Now!

Just wanted to help people avert disaster. I was playing some graphically intense games with these drivers; however, I did not appear to be suffering from any fan issues. Despite that, I still reverted to my old drivers and updated to the version before 196.75.

[LargoWinch]

Re: Nvidia 196.75 Drivers Cause System Damage - Revert Now!

Just wanted to help people avert disaster. I was playing some graphically intense games with these drivers; however, I did not appear to be suffering from any fan issues. Despite that, I still reverted to my old drivers and updated to the version before 196.75.

BadJuju, no offense, but how is this "news" relevant in the grand scheme of global finance?

[BadJuju]

Re: Nvidia 196.75 Drivers Cause System Damage - Revert Now!

BadJuju, no offense, but how is this "news" relevant in the grand scheme of global finance?

It isn't, but then again, this forum receives far more views than other forums and I want to help people prevent hundreds of dollars worth of damage to their computers.

[Adeptus]

Re: Nvidia 196.75 Drivers Cause System Damage - Revert Now!

It isn't, but then again, this forum receives far more views than other forums and I want to help people prevent hundreds of dollars worth of damage to their computers.

It doesn't receive more views than the following IT related websites where this sort of useful info should be submitted:
www.slashdot.org, www.tomshardware.com, www.arstechnica.com

It already made it on Slashdot at 5:30AM:
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/0...ames?art_pos=1


Adeptus

[flintlock]

Re: Nvidia 196.75 Drivers Cause System Damage - Revert Now!

BadJuju, no offense, but how is this "news" relevant in the grand scheme of global finance?

I believe MOST of us are using a computer to view this website.;)

Thanks for the tip BadJuju. If we do not update the drivers, then we have nothing to worry about I assume? Or is that something that might be done automatically.

[BadJuju]

Re: Nvidia 196.75 Drivers Cause System Damage - Revert Now!

I believe MOST of us are using a computer to view this website.;)

Thanks for the tip BadJuju. If we do not update the drivers, then we have nothing to worry about I assume? Or is that something that might be done automatically.

No problem, good sir. It is done manually, but to be certain, you can check your driver version by right-clicking on your desk-top, clicking 'Nvidia control panel' and then going to 'help' and clicking 'system information.' The driver version is indicated on the right side of the window. As long as it is not 196.75, you are in the clear.