http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/ Engadget Comments for NVIDIA pulls 196.75 driver amid reports it's frying graphics cards http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
You ain't kidding... I'm running this driver right now! Afk.]]>Mar 5th 2010 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
Shame on people for using NVIDIA! Get ATI. Radeons are so much better than their comparable GTXs.]]>Mar 5th 2010 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
Torch me once, I can chalk it up to an anomaly. Torch me twice and I can chalk it up to never using your company's shit products again.]]>Mar 5th 2010 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
Strange, the 5000 series runs much cooler than the GT200 series...]]>Mar 5th 2010 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/(ok yes I know they don't call them that anymore)]]>Mar 5th 2010 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
That's unfortunate. The first time shoulda told you to stop playing Crysis. ]]>Mar 6th 2010 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/i'm seriously wondering how you achieved that. i messed up an aftermarket heatsink install on my ATI card, and it shut itself down. twice, because i didn't notice it was mis-installed when i pulled it out the first time.]]>Mar 7th 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
They should get on that, pronto!]]>Mar 5th 2010 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/I always try to monitor my GPU temps when doing encoding or gaming.

That sux for those whose cards are now roasted. Wish Nvidia would help out those in that situation. They are so adamant about you updating your drivers all the time. At least they pulled it.]]>Mar 5th 2010 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
Well.. sucks for them I guess. They'll learn after this one ;)]]>Mar 5th 2010 5:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
This is totally outrageous and I wonder why people are not making more fuzz about this.]]>Mar 5th 2010 5:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
I had a friend whose power supply fritzed out and burned a good portion of his apartment. He usually left his pc on 24/7.

I got 2 GTX 260's and 5 HDD's going... my power bill thanks me for putting my pc to sleep once in awhile.]]>Mar 5th 2010 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
Some of us actually use our computer for things for more than web surfing ;)

I personally either let code compile or re-encode videos overnight pretty often (I'm currently digitizing all of our family's home movies).]]>Mar 5th 2010 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
Putting a machine to sleep and waking it back up a lot can actually shorten the life of your hardware. That's particularly true of the hard drive, which is why I always disable hard drive sleep since most OSes set it at something low like 20 minutes. Most components (hard drives in particular) are worn out by changes in motion and temperature, not continued operation under constant conditions. Have you ever noticed how light bulbs almost always blow out when you turn them on or off? Same concept.]]>Mar 5th 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
You've not enough minerals !!]]>Mar 5th 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
Seriously, thanks...!]]>Mar 5th 2010 5:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 5:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 5:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/It's amazing how the short circuit caused by the melting GPU shorted the correct lines in the USB controller which your keyboard is plugged into to produce the mask value 0x13 for the Enter key.]]>Mar 5th 2010 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 5:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 6th 2010 3:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/1. They're usually untested;
2. They're a bitch to package.]]>Mar 5th 2010 5:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 6th 2010 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 6th 2010 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
That said, it never breaks 70C, and the fan normally doesn't spin up over 40%, and it's behaving no differently now after that update.


I wonder if it affects all cards or a specific family. Either way, lets hope it all gets sorted out (and I don't get cooked!)

]]>Mar 5th 2010 5:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Same here. I have an Asus G50v and since I installed Win 7 and new drivers I have had the same issues. I have tried all sorts of different ways to get around it and have managed to get it under control, but I figured this out a while back and reported it to nVidia (for what that was worth). I finally got to the point where I can run WoW w/o Anti-Aliasing and do fine with it, but if I run any other advanced graphics the fan just doesn't compensate for the heat. Hopefully a new driver release will correct this issue soon.]]>Mar 5th 2010 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
You can program different fan profiles into that card's ROM. If it's a spec board, you can burn any manufacturer's ROM to your card (e.g. EVGA). There are also some nice utilities that will let you modify a ROM for a custom solution.

That's how I OC my GPU. I don't rely on drivers.

I have one of the original 8800GT, whose tiny fan presented cooling issues.]]>Mar 5th 2010 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
If you can't use stock fan controls there is always Rivatuner ( http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner ) it's kind of a bitch to program but once you do it runs great]]>Mar 5th 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 6th 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 5:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/Mar 5th 2010 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/
... or call support to get them replaced on NVIDIAs cost ]]>Mar 5th 2010 8:24AM