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nvidia - 3/7/2010 9:00:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		nvidia is having serious issues with v196.75 driver.

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RE: nvidia - 3/7/2010 9:44:18 AM   
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WARNING! NVIDIA 196.75 drivers can kill your graphics card

I’m getting a steady stream of reports in from NVIDIA users that the latest 196.75 drivers can cause severe cooling problems, even possibly resulting in the death of the hardware.

The problem seems to be related to the fan controller, causing the fans to slow down, and even stop. This happening while the card is in use is a very bad thing indeed, and can cause poor performance (as the GPU tries to cool itself down by reducing power) and possibly even overheat your GPU to the point where the card stops working.

NVIDIA 196.75 drivers were released on March 2nd, and have now been removed from the download site. If you are running these drivers it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you uninstall this driver and immediately downgrade to the 196.21 drivers.

Here’s the official statement from NVIDIA:

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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.

If in the past few days you’re upgraded your NVIDIA drivers and your PC has since died (and you’re somehow reading this …) then this could be the cause of your problems. I’ve already received several reports from gaming enthusiasts who claim that their systems died shortly after installing these drivers, which while not conclusive, is certainly enough indication to me that these drivers could be very toxic and should be avoided.


I didn't understand your post, so I googled to see if it was something in the news... apparently the 196.75 drivers have trouble telling the fans to run at an appropriate level during graphics processing, which can lead to the graphics card being permanently ruined.

I appreciate the heads-up, seeing as how I run an nVidia card. I wonder if this will be on Slashdot in a couple days.

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RE: nvidia - 3/7/2010 9:50:49 AM   
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RE: nvidia - 3/7/2010 11:25:28 AM   
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RE: nvidia - 3/7/2010 11:28:06 AM   
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RE: nvidia - 3/7/2010 12:25:01 PM   
Oliver Heindorf


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Status: offline 		jupp, NVIDIA suggest to downgrade to older drivers.

You can fiond an archive of drivers here : http://www.3dcenter.org/download/nvidia-geforce-treiber

Well, I am not affect...ATI cards only here since 2001.


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RE: nvidia - 3/7/2010 12:25:14 PM   
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ORIGINAL: tocaff

Will the company make good for these products that are destroyed because of inadequate software support?


Highly unlikely as the first thing NVIDIA do after releasing a card is to share the license with several other manufacturers, so although they release the drivers for all of these clones, I doubt they'll be replacing any fried ones that didn't come directly from them. I have two cards in SLI and my Driver Wizard software said I needed a change of driver - I am now thankful that I was too 'lazy' to do it straight away...

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RE: nvidia - 3/7/2010 12:46:02 PM   
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RE: nvidia - 3/7/2010 2:07:15 PM   
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RE: nvidia - 3/7/2010 3:24:36 PM   
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ORIGINAL: WLockard

I always like to wait 2-4 months after release of new drivers to see what shakes out.


I'll actually wait over 6 months. I'll double check, but I believe I'm still runnint the 192.xxx driver. I'm at work now, so it'll have to wait till I get home to check it.

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RE: nvidia - 3/7/2010 5:06:33 PM   
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ORIGINAL: BigJ62

nvidia is having serious issues with v196.75 driver.


Thanks for the heads up. Luckily I'm still on the 196.21 driver.

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RE: nvidia - 3/7/2010 7:07:32 PM   
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ORIGINAL: BigJ62

nvidia is having serious issues with v196.75 driver.


Thanks for the info man. I never would of known if I didn't come here.

I was able to install the old driver but how should one uninstall the crappy driver?

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RE: nvidia - 3/7/2010 8:33:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		I believe there's a free program called Driversweeper; run that first before installing other drivers.

EDIT: get it here, for instance:
http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

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