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Nvidia drivers fries your card

meh. i don't even bother installing new nvidia drivers when they come out any more. most of them **** up the display in windows so bad i don't even get a chance to test them out in games.

looks like i'll stay on the 186s for ever. :/
 
oh dear, this forum really should have its name changed from 'graphics cards' to 'club ATI'

No driver probs here - if anything the default fan profile is too agressive, my card is cold and noisy..

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Epic quote from the above forum:

'What are “drivers”? All the talk about the fans makes me think it’s a hardware, but the talk of installing it makes me think it’s a software.

How do I find out what driver I’m using?'
 
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mattyfez said:
oh dear, this forum really should have its name changed from 'graphics cards' to 'club ATI'
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The forum goes through this, when ATi were down everyone was just as vocal, if not worse about their misfortune. I guarantee some of the same people who are upset that NV are being mocked were doing the exact same when ATi were down.

Fact is, Nvidia haven't exactly done much recently to warrant glowing praise have they?
 
I'm not ready to jump on the lol failboat bandwagon, one forum that I've seen so far showing issues doesn't mean a cause, and withdrawing a driver till the fault is found is not even remotely uncommon, the fault could easily be something else.

THough I will say, if it is an Nvidia driver fault, I'll laugh, mostly at the dozen or so guys who jump into EVERY ATi thread to bemoan the drivers. As for killing cards to get them to buy Fermi's, wouldn't that require Fermi to be available, and manufacturable at a profit, of which it isn't one and will never be the other.

Considering they haven't made GT200b's for a while either and likely have next to no supply left over, RMA's could even be a big problem if there was a largescale problem as cards die, as so often people put drivers on and don't go around checking for news if their new driver is killing cards.

How longs the driver been out exactly? The vast majority of users don't ever update drivers to be honest. Though not sure, will graphics drivers update through windows update? I never see them but never get far enough behind for them to show up as an update. If the driver update went out over windows update, they could be in a world of hurt IF the drivers are at fault.
 
drunkenmaster said:
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How longs the driver been out exactly? The vast majority of users don't ever update drivers to be honest. Though not sure, will graphics drivers update through windows update? I never see them but never get far enough behind for them to show up as an update. If the driver update went out over windows update, they could be in a world of hurt IF the drivers are at fault.
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3rd March so not long before pulled. That still might mean a lot of people.

14,820 people have downloaded them from guru3d alone and that is only one of many sources. They were on rapidshare the day before release on Nvidia's site.

Also, although Nvidia may well have pulled them from their own site, guru3d and many others still have them listed for download and people are still downloading them as we speak.
 
Slightly off topic but I since when did graphics drivers allow us to control the fan speed? I say that because what killed my 7800gtx and 8800gtx was temperature, I am as certain about that as I can be. I don't remember having the option in the control panel to change anything like that. Bearing in mind I wasn't around on the forums then, picking up snippits of info, so I was totally ignorant if that option was available.

When I bought a 4870 after the 8800 died that was my first recollection of being able to control fan speed.
 
Well i just done 3D Mark Vantage test running GPU-z in the background, no issue whatso ever temp on load was 56'c fan speed was 40%, i wonder what cards the drivers failed on?

there could be various possibilities why there cards failed and not due to lack of sh*te drivers.

it could also be the fact that some games have 30% increase in performance causing more strain on the card?
 
EnderXi said:
sure fire way to avoid those issues, buy a third party cooler and power it off a fan header on the motherboard or a seperate fan controller bypassing the controls on the card for the fan, cooler and quieter than the stock every time 100%
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This is exactly what I'm doing, both my 8800gt's have an Accelero S1 on. :)

Regardless, that's pretty poor driver coding, I'm surprised the drivers were even available for download with such a major bug...
 
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Well that expalins why my brothers 8800GTS died the other week then, i had just installed the latest drivers for him after a reformat!!
 
MikeHunt79 said:
This is exactly what I'm doing, both my 8800gt's have an Accelero S1 on. :)

Regardless, that's pretty poor driver coding, I'm surprised the drivers were even available for download with such a major bug...
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yeah but it's only caused problem to various cards, myself and others included that the drivers work fine on their machine :confused:
 
AWPC said:
This is why Nvidia rules as far as their drivers team are concerned;) We all know ATI are ahead with hardware but without the decent drivers resource which Nvidia have its all pointless. Nvidia apparently have a team of 250 software engineers in their drivers team (which cost them in excess of $10M per year). They work with all the major developers to ensure that their cards run the latest PC games (sometimes with extra features!).

If ATI ever match this level of excellence Nvidia would go bust very quickly :eek:
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LMFAO! :D
 
Greebo said:
the drigvers are 2 days old. You got a time machine then? :p
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lolz

Looking at the Nvidia forum, it looks like it is a fault with the drivers, however when you play extensive games the fan is supposed to increase so that it keeps the card cool, however the card stays at 40% fanspeed, EVERYONE keep an eye on your temps it may look ok however it can result with your card being fried, Nvidia look to release an update shortly :cool:
 
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