NVIDIA 196.75 Drivers Can Kill Your GPU

I don't know about you, but my card didn't come with doors, none of them did.

Besides, no REAL numbers or benchmarks from any reputable source has yet to be released. You don't have any idea what the fermi BBQ project will do.
 
didn't this JUST happen a few releases ago?

i ran those suckers for a month anyway with no problems.
 
how do I go about my dead 8800gts? contact nvidia or bfg? I dont think bfg would cover it under warranty since Ive never registered it.. sucky situation :confused:
 
Steve said:
It seems that NVIDIA has pulled its 196.75 drivers because of overheating issues. Apparently there has been a rash of complaints about dead, dying and overheating video cards. The problem seems to be the fan controller in the 196.75 drivers, no word from NVIDIA on the matter yet.
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How often should you update your drivers anyway? I'm still using 191.07 and seem to be very stable as it is.
 
I had 'updated' to the 196.75 driver. Only thing I've run lately is STO, and even there I have some of the things that tend to over-heat my cards turned down, or Off. So that, and the fact that even on Air, my setup is really well cooled meant I had no problems.

Still I did the 'roll back' thing on the drivers ... But I'd sure like to see corrected drivers up ASAP!
 
maxius said:
the end result of the nvidia gpu kill switch is ati has better drivers
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That's a matter of opinion, I avoid ATI videocards due to their bloated Catalyst driver suite. Yes ATI is faster right now, yes ATI has full DX 11 support right now. I'm fine with what I have for now though and would rather avoid their driver set.

I am glad however I didn't update to their absolute newest drivers though.
 
My card is acting like shit after rolling back the drivers. Screen flashing, paging, etc.... FTW?

Version Nvidia recommended was the 192.XX
 
thee_rook said:
BTW my card is a GTX285
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I'd download the newest driver set. Fully uninstall your drivers, reboot, install new drivers.

If you are playing a outdated game, graphic engine, such as WoW, I wouldn't even bother with the drivers Nvidia mentioned as that may not be the best drivers for that game and would look up what other users with your card are using.
 
I have GTX260's in SLI and I was affected by the overheating bug, but only one of my video cards was affected I think oddly enough. One card skyrocketed to 110C and the screen got corrupted almost immediately when playing supreme commander 2.

Rolled back to older 196.21 drivers, and everything's fine. Luckily no damage I think!
 
celeron300 said:
How often should you update your drivers anyway? I'm still using 191.07 and seem to be very stable as it is.
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You do not have to update all the time but should at least look at the the change logs in each release. Sometimes it could be a performance gain in a game or effects in a game. or even help patching issues with games/apps.

I always install the newest drivers/firmware for most things. I didn't play any games in between this release and the finding of the issue. So I just uninstalled and went back to the last beta's (192.34 I think now). I still have the 192.75 if anyone wants to make a nice space heater ;)
 
CanesVenetici said:
I don't know about you, but my card didn't come with doors, none of them did.

Besides, no REAL numbers or benchmarks from any reputable source has yet to be released. You don't have any idea what the fermi BBQ project will do.
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its a expression
 
UnrealCpu said:
Thats plain stupid.. Sorry but no video card is stressed that long not even in the most 3d intense games

My card isnt even touching past 65c on full load in games..
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Yes video cards are streesed that long. have 2 gtx260's folding 24/7 though i usually set my fan to 60% and it hits around 60c i tride auto and the cards leveled out at 74 and 75c both fans started to spin up at 73c One is in xp-home the other is in 7-64
 
there is no greener grass on the other side. ati-> nvidia nvidia->ati.

But my cards survives every monthly update!! done ati alot, cause i want to pay less, and get more.

Did you know in my country i can buy a 5870 and a hamburger and still have a lil cash to spare over a GTX285 ? :)
 
hedron said:
Doesn't everyone just use riva tuner to set the speed manually anyway? This has always been an issue.
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I use EVGA precision (riva lite) and it still happened. No this has never been an issue before.
 
Evil said:
That's a matter of opinion, I avoid ATI videocards due to their bloated Catalyst driver suite. Yes ATI is faster right now, yes ATI has full DX 11 support right now. I'm fine with what I have for now though and would rather avoid their driver set.

I am glad however I didn't update to their absolute newest drivers though.
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What bloat? It's no more or less bloated and feature packed as the Detonator.
 
I wonder why the drivers were not tested before being released? I hope not too many people ruined their video cards due to nvidia's blunder and that they replace any cards ruined by the update. I usually wait about a week after a new driver comes out to read what editors such as HardOCP says about them.
 
Jodiuh said:
I use EVGA precision (riva lite) and it still happened. No this has never been an issue before.
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Really??? Shit, that really pisses me off. That's exactly the way I'm running these drivers with excellent results so far. I'm going to keep running them but will be watching everything like a hawk.
 
I use eVGA Precision too. I have the "bad" drivers but if the fan controller problem is just software (drivers not taking fan up high enough) I'm not going to worry about it since eVGA's tool keeps the fan at 100%, 24/7.
 
Matthew Kane said:
I've lost faith in nvidia now.
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I find this one really funny, based on time-frame.

I remember the b0rked-in-hardware nVidia nForce hardware firewalls, which they swept under the rug. Yep, got burned by that one.

I remember the b0rked-in-hardware PureVideo setups of th nVidia Geforce 6800 (NV40/NV45) series, which nVidia swept under the rug. Yep, got burned by that one.

I remember the SATA issues with the early 680i gear --which nVidia couldn't sweep under the rug, because the product was too new --fortunately, a fix was possible. Stopped buying nVidia chipset mainboards after the nForce 3/4 firewall issues, so this one didn't burn me.

I remember the b0rked nVidia mobile GPUs which are more recent --nVidia has failed to acknowledge the extent of the problem (after finally admitting the problem, there are chips they are not listing as affected, though it is obvious they are and are from the same family). Possibly the only reason they've mentioned it at all is because when it affects HP, Lenovo, Dell, and other first-party vendors in a huge way (as opposed to end-users), you don't have a choice. Had to get someone's HP slim-desktop based on the nForce/Geforce 6150 a new mainboard due to this one (fortunately, HP issued an extended repair program).

You've only lost faith NOW???

I'm not a fanboy of anyone --rather, I support hardware that works well, at reasonable prices, and that has a reliable track record. I bought an 8800GTS 640MB within 3-4 months of their release and loved it, and go back far enough to have owned a Riva128 when it was a popular card. That said, I no longer buy ANY nVidia product unless it's had 3-4 months on the market in quantities sufficient to be purchased by enough people. I haven't had faith in them for a long time, only in vendors who use their products --and notice how many vendors appear to be dropping nVidia and switching to ATI?
 
The fact that you bought NVIDIA chipset boards makes me laugh. While their boards may have been utter shit at the time, the video cards and software for them were strong. NVIDIA users have had GOOD reason to stick with NVIDIA as their video card supplier up until this last year.
 
stop!theradio said:
The fact that you bought NVIDIA chipset boards makes me laugh. While their boards may have been utter shit at the time, the video cards and software for them were strong. NVIDIA users have had GOOD reason to stick with NVIDIA as their video card supplier up until this last year.
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So, how many chipset choices do you know of being available for Socket-939 boards when the Athlon 64 was released other than nVidia? :rolleyes:

nVidia was also rated as the best chipset for Socket A at the end of its time on the market with the nForce 2 400 Ultra, and at that point, appeared to have a pretty bright future in the mainboard biz, so the nForce3 and 4 were highly anticipated.

I can also tell you that after the GeforceFX line and then the b0rked PureVideo fiasco right after it, some users had good reason to stick with nVidia. In my case, Purevideo hardware encoding was at least 25% of the reason I bought a Geforce 6800, and I was highly disappointed when it didn't work, and the less-expensive Geforce 6600 didn't; I was more disappointed when they failed to yank their faulty PureVideo advertising PDF from their website.

It's also a reason why I now wait until nVidia has released more than one card in a new lineup, because they have also had some history of adding a feature to middle-end card that probably should have been part of their top-end cards as well, had they not been too eager to get a launch out.
 
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh My card just died.



















JUST KIDDING
NIVIDIA WORKING GREAT!:D
Going to go play some games ..still on new drivers
 
For those of that smelled roasted GPU last night...you're not funny.
 
Evil said:
That's a matter of opinion, I avoid ATI videocards due to their bloated Catalyst driver suite. Yes ATI is faster right now, yes ATI has full DX 11 support right now. I'm fine with what I have for now though and would rather avoid their driver set.

I am glad however I didn't update to their absolute newest drivers though.
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Yeah damn bloated ATI drivers, avoid them like the plague!! But nvidia drivers, all they do is overheat people's cards and destroy them. No biggie, GO NVIDIA!!!
 
WELL, I'M GLAD I KNOW THIS NOW...

-_-;;

Just pulled my graphics card last night after playing Bad Company 2 because I hit 90C. Took it apart and there wasn't much dust and it appeared to be seated properly... I'm putting in a h2o setup later this week, so it had to come out, anyway, but it's still a pain not to have a computer to game on for a while.

:p I'm sure I can live without one, though. Maybe I'll get in shape? xD
 
Ran 4 instances of Furmark3d for 21 Min

Max GPU temp 84C
GPU cooler at 74% did not exceed past 75%
Geforce 285GTX
Drivers 196.75
Working great!
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
vjcsmoke said:
LOL, and people complain about how bad ATI drivers are... At least they don't kill off your video card! I would be royally pissed if over $1000 worth of gpus went up in smoke!
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A few years ago I had an ATI 9800 Pro that literally melted it's fan off. I don't know if it was the drivers or not but I was just glad it didn't burn my house down. And ATI wouldn't honor it's warranty either so I wasn't too happy about it. It was a $300+ purchase too.

I'm not having any issues with the 196.75 drivers but I use MSI Afterburner to control the fan speed/temps. From what I've read on Nvidia's forum it seems the majority of people having problems with the 196.75 drivers are running 9800GT's.
 
I'm getting intermittent freezing after rolling back.. I've also had my monitors go into standby mode while playing a game for longer than an hour, and refuse to come out of it.. Never had that prior to this.
 
Evil said:
That's a matter of opinion, I avoid ATI videocards due to their bloated Catalyst driver suite. Yes ATI is faster right now, yes ATI has full DX 11 support right now. I'm fine with what I have for now though and would rather avoid their driver set.

I am glad however I didn't update to their absolute newest drivers though.
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CCC opens up immediately for me. I don't find it bloated.
But I have a 160GB Intel X25 SSD so everything is fast. While hardware shouldn't necessarily be required for software to run fast, I'd upgrade to modern enthusiast's specs (SSD) before saying something is bloated. Now, if it's "bloated" on a SSD.. then it's bloated. But SSDs are common enthusiast hardware now. I've never ran CCC on a HDD so I can't speak to that, but I'm sure it's something a man could endure as few times as you need to use CCC and hotkeys won't suffice. I prefer CCC to the NV interface personally for aesthetics, performance of a video card driver interface is not that important, but again it's really not that slow if you have a rig like what I have listed below (and really, it's not all that modern, I don't even have an i7!)
 
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