Critical Update: 196.75 Nvidia Driver = Dead Graphics Card

[poldopunk]

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This is very important. There are threads in the internet that reports the new driver (196.75) for Nvidia Graphics cards kill it. Most of the causes are blizzard games (SC2 Beta), as per EarlZ, possible daw na tungod daw sa Vsync issue (which makes sense). They say that the graphics card is not able to detect its temperature due to incompatibilities with the program and the new driver which causes it to overheat with temperature in excess of 100c+.

http://starcraft.incgamers.com/blog/...-graphic-cards

Nvidia's Official Statement:

nVidia retracts WHQL-certified "GPU Killing Drivers" - Bright Side Of News*

Bryan Del Rizzo, nVidia's PR Manager for GeForce for comment: "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."

There's a workaround na ni work sa uban people. They let 3rd party programs manage the fan speed (Rivatuner, Afterburner, etc.). My VGA BIOS is edited so it consistently runs at 60% regardless and so far, its running fine from my end but just to make sure...Check your temps and uninstall the driver, NOW!!!

[swiftkillu]

Wew...nice find..duda ko murag naay strings attached ani.

[Sasori]

OT

^ funny thing, iv just downloaded the new nvidia driver but later on i knew im already using an ATI GPU. lol.

[poldopunk]

^ bawal ang pork...bawal ang beans!

[freelancetech]

Bantug ra kay pag download nako last day ug Driver na V196.75 kalit lang ni ingon ang site nga its not available then ako gi balik ug search nahibong ko ni balik sa V196.21. As I have experienced mostly new drivers from WHQL Nvidia website mag cge ug hang when playing movies. What I did I downloaded from the manufacturer's website to obtain the latest drivers w/c is tested to use of my hardware.

Thanks @TS now people are aware.

[thermaltake]

nice pra ma aware sad ang mga taw..

[poldopunk]

again, i would like to remind anyone who owns nvidia graphics card to steer away from 196.75.

[gaspar_73]

naa diay bugs kuyog...mayagaw ang bios...

[regilsolon]

Sir Poldz.. ma inani jud sa..after install ang 196.75 version. ma prito jud..lolz

Given that the most users that reported their graphics cards have died were using a custom-built boards featuring nVidia's favorite renaming chip of all times, G92 GPU [8800GT, 8800GTS, 9800GT, 9800GTX and the subsequent 55nm die-shrink: 9800GTX+, GTS 250]: GeForce 9800GT, 9800GTX and GTS 250 were particular victims of this issue.

[isaacrobot]

LOL @ sasori ehhehe

im using that driver ryt now. its been 2days since i installed it, wala pman noon ko na overheat since ako gi dunganan ug afterburner (pang oc ug fan control)

ill try with other games later since ako gi dula kai HoN ug NBA2K ra