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Author:  big_D [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:03 am ]
Post subject:  nVidia driver killing cards?
ZDNet is reporting that the 196.75 drivers could be causing nvidia graphics cards to kill themselves...

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7551&tag=nl.e539

Allegedly, in some circumstances, it can slow the fans down too much and they don't respond to heat build-up properly, leading to overheating cards...

nvidia wrote:
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.


Those are the March 2nd drivers, for those who updated last week.
Author:  big_D [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: nVidia driver killing cards?
Hmmm... Interesting...

I dug out my old PC yesterday to sell on to a co-worker who needed a Windows PC to do his tax return - he uses Apple PowerPC Macs at home and the free tax return software is Windows only.

I ran all the updates and got the 196.75 update through and then, after a re-start, my Geforce FX6600GT stopped working, or so it seemed. I had a spare FX5200 in the cupboard, so I slipped that into the machine and it worked fine, for a day... Then I left it defragging and the screen went into power saving mode and never woke up again! I powered the machine down and let it restart, nothing, dead as a dodo... Then I plugged the monitor into the VGA port on the card and it sprang back to life.

Is it possible the nVidia driver is somehow messing up the keep-alive/wake-up signal on the DVI port?
Author:  soddit112 [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: nVidia driver killing cards?
the problem was broken fan control which prevented the fan from spinning up when it got hot ie during games. unless your case has zero airflow i wouldnt think the drivers were at fault, but there have been numerous updates on nVidias site since then, so if you can, give them a try, but we are talking >100 DegC to kill a graphics card. TBH id be looking at something else as the cause, perhaps faulty PSU?
Author:  big_D [ Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:41 am ]
Post subject:  Re: nVidia driver killing cards?
Gav posted on Twitter, that it is an edid conflict not waking the DVI port out of sleep mode properly...
Author:  JohnSheridan [ Fri Apr 09, 2010 7:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: nVidia driver killing cards?
Silly me - I thought nVidia would actually test their drivers work before releasing them to the masses. :oops:
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