Warning Nvidia removes Forceware 196.75

[Wolfehunter]

Originally Posted by nvidia

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 website.

Many have claimed that there video cards have overheated. Some like myself have had them burn out.

Save your video cards while you can..

[Castout]

Thanks for the warning using 196.21 myself

This sounds bad

Sorry about your fried GPU

[Wolfehunter]

Np dude,

Some more articles on it the issue by kalic on bioware social site,

This is a pretty urgent thing to report because it could damage or potentially completely ruin your video card if it's
ignored. The latest NVIDIA drivers, 196.75-WHQL released on March 2nd, 2010 are causing issues with the video card fan control while playing Blizzard (and other) games. This is caused by the Automatic Fan Speed feature being broken in the latest drivers.

The games included are: World of Warcraft, StarCraft II Beta and Warcraft III. If you play any of these games (which I'm pretty sure you do if you're reading this website), you'll want to roll your drivers back to earlier versions until this is fixed, unless you want to replacea video card within the next few days.

We're getting reports where users are getting intermittent low FPS afterinstalling these drivers. It seems that it is related to the fan control included in these drivers not working correctly and is causing the video card to overheat on 3D applications. This will affect Warcraft3, World of Warcraft and StarCraft 2 Beta. Please uninstall the drivers and revert back to the older ones.

This problem is not only affecting Blizzard games, but many others. Please revert to an older version, to prevent damage to your video card. If your card is damage, please contact the manufacture for warranty.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=161525
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=161503

[Wolfehunter]

Nvidia is take some measure of responsibility for damaging your Geforce card.

If you believe that nvidia forceware driver 196.75 caused any damage to your nvidia graphic card file a report at there customer support issue.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=162344

Goodluck,

WH