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Barso 03-05-10 05:33 AM

Warning for latest nvidea drivers!!
 
If you are using the very latest nvidea drivers, STOP.
They have been pulled from their site as they seem to be causing GPU fans to not ramp up when needed causing GPU's to overheat and maybe fail.
Rollback to the last 196 drivers until the new ones are fixed.

Yskonyn 03-05-10 05:38 AM

Thanks for the heads-up. Nobody wants to fry their card. :)

Decoman 03-05-10 05:50 AM

Speaking of drivers, I will probably stick with my Ati Catalyst 9.11 drivers until I see some drivers from 2010 that has something to do with Silent Hunter 5.

9.11 drivers = november 2009
10.3 drivers = march 2010

Kromus 03-05-10 06:01 AM

Thx for this info Barso! This is still last year for my 280GTX anyway but I don`t want to do an earlier upgrade :O:

Iliaz 03-05-10 06:15 AM

Thanks for the Heads-Up, Barso! :up:

Dronston 03-05-10 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barso (Post 1295038)
If you are using the very latest nvidea drivers, STOP.
They have been pulled from their site as they seem to be causing GPU fans to not ramp up when needed causing GPU's to overheat and maybe fail.
Rollback to the last 196 drivers until the new ones are fixed.

So 196.75 is okay?

Ragtag 03-05-10 06:28 AM

It seems to affect these cards:

GeForce 9800GT, 9800GTX and GTS 250. May affect others to.

Source: http://www.geeks3d.com/20100305/forc...-geforce-card/

The drivers works fine with my GTX285.

Dronston 03-05-10 06:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dronston (Post 1295113)
So 196.75 is okay?

Okay, my version is the bad one. Rolling back as we speak!
Thanks for the heads up!

Dimitrius07 03-05-10 06:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barso (Post 1295038)
If you are using the very latest nvidea drivers, STOP.
They have been pulled from their site as they seem to be causing GPU fans to not ramp up when needed causing GPU's to overheat and maybe fail.
Rollback to the last 196 drivers until the new ones are fixed.

And its not the first time this happening :salute:

Arclight 03-05-10 08:06 AM

Good thing I let Rivatuner control the fan. :lol:

McHibbins 03-05-10 08:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dronston (Post 1295125)
Okay, my version is the bad one. Rolling back as we speak!
Thanks for the heads up!

So 196.21 will work ?

Dronston 03-05-10 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by McHibbins (Post 1295269)
So 196.21 will work ?

It seems so, it's the latest version listed on the nvidia site. 75 is indeed no langer available for download.
Just installed and everything seems to be normal.

Rothwell white 03-05-10 08:41 AM

Thanks for info :salute:

malkuth74 03-05-10 08:50 AM

Wow thanks I have a Gforc 260 and never noticed anything. But I went to the 196.34 drivers.

These will bring the Shadow slowdown worse though... So remember to just shut the shadows off.. I already did anyway.

But I mean quality control has gone to the crapper with computer companies lately.

I hope they are responsible for replacing people burned out cards? Lucky it was not mine becuase... Well I have ways.... :rotfl2:

AVGWarhawk 03-05-10 09:22 AM

Bump and thanks! I have the 9800. Nice way to generate some business for Nvida. Plant a bad driver. :hmmm: Geez.

196.75 is the bad driver...currently the Nvida site shows 196.21 as the driver to use.


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