Nvidia drivers pulled

Nvidia claims to have fixed an overheating problem.

Nvidia has issued an apology for overheating problems it has blamed on one of its software drivers.

The offending driver, version 196.75, has been removed from circulation and Nvidia has requested that we all wipe any memory it ever existed from our collective memories. It also recommended that users roll back to their previous software drivers or use the newer version 197.13 drivers.

What's great about the apology is that Nvidia doesn't once mention any overheating issues caused by the offending software driver version 196.75.

"Nvidia apologises to our customers that installed the 196.75 driver and experienced quality issues. We continue to work closely with our add-in-card partners and PC manufacturers to help resolve any additional customer issues not solved by reverting to the earlier driver. Any Nvidia customer who has questions about their board as a result of downloading [the] 196.75 driver should contact their board supplier."

Reports on the Internet speculated that the 196.75 driver was causing fan fails in GeForce GPUs, with users on Nvidia's forums claiming temperatures in excess of 100°C.

It's unknown at this point whether any Geforce graphics card vendors or Nvidia itself will be compensating users whose cards were damaged or destroyed by this problem.

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13 Comments

omega Mar 19, 2010 10:47 AM	The Inquirer hammering nVidia again - same old same old
qwakqwak Mar 19, 2010 12:22 PM	Now all they need to do is bash gen-y and another Inquirer article will be complete
omega Mar 19, 2010 1:01 PM	And say the word "Vole"
fliptopia Mar 19, 2010 2:01 PM	I'm not sure this is a genuine inquirer article actually. Sure it's an nvidia bash but they omitted the term "Green Goblin". It almost reads like actual journalism.
Hawkeye Mar 19, 2010 2:39 PM	(I edited that out) Also... BOFFINS!
fliptopia Mar 19, 2010 3:01 PM	are you running a find and replace on all these terms? marvellous! you're an editor of the people
Hawkeye Mar 19, 2010 3:31 PM	Actually, I have this awful temptation to leave stuff like that in the more people complain about it :)
omega Mar 19, 2010 3:53 PM	I think we need a slang term for The Inquirer - much like it has them for others (Vole, Green Goblin, etc). Ill start: "Waste of bits" "Totaly Biased"
.:Cyb3rGlitch:. Mar 19, 2010 7:23 PM	@omega, I think "shit" is best. Short and catchy.
cheozuka Mar 19, 2010 9:35 PM	luckily for me I use EVA prescision ( based on riva tuner) as I like to run my fans a bit harder than default 40% idle. So this must have over-rode the problem, as the fans are still working fine with the driver in question. phew
fliptopia Mar 19, 2010 10:05 PM	Hawkeye: So if noone said anything about it you wouldn't think anyone cared and you would leave it in but if they complain then you REALLY don't want to do what you weren't going to do anyway? :P It is appreciated though. It just reads so much better without the snideness of every single article they write.
BUFF1974 Mar 23, 2010 10:38 AM	HAD FAN PROBLEMS ABOUT 2 MONTHS AGO WITH GTX285 AND GT250 AND CONSTANT UNSTABLE FPS ALL OVER THE PLACE!! BOUGHT MY FIRST, ATI EVER A 5850! LOVE IT NO PROBS AT ALL SORRY NVIDIA U LOST 1 ... ER FAN OF MANY NOT THE FIRST IN RECENT TIMES.. HELL I MIGHT EVEN GO AMD NEXT BUILD! LOL
Nchalada Mar 26, 2010 8:14 AM	@cheozuka I agree, i use RivaTuner to run the fan on mine at around 60%, not entirely trusting of the fan automagically changing the speed at which it runs... 40deg C is hot nuff in my opinion heh

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