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Nvidia 320.18 WHQL Display Driver is Damaging GPUs

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Boomstick777 said:
Wow read some horror stories regarding these drivers killing cards and causing all kinds of other problems like hard locks, reboots and freezes.

Someone over at OC.net has started a petition, change 'xx' to 'tt' hxxp://www.change.org/petitions/the-people-vs-nvidia-co-compensate-the-victims-of-the-nvidia-320-18-whql-display-driver

I wander if Nvidia guys will erase these problems from their minds again and keep telling AMD users that their drivers suck :p.
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Problem is unless people can prove it nVidia aren't going to do anything, petition or not, if they did everyone who has had a GPU fail recently would abuse it.
 
setter said:
Are theese issues only present in driver ver 320.18? Currently on 320.00 here, and been a while since i played any games. Just wondering if i should roll back.
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Have 320.00 installed on all my machines except one I've been playing around with 320.18 and not seen a single problem on 320.00 not seen anyone complaining of problems with them either. Unless you need a feature/fix in a later 320 driver they seem the most stable of the 320 release to me.
 
EDIT: What I meant to say is I've not seen anyone complaining of GPU breaking problems with 320.00, theres probably someone out there complaining of general problems with them :P
 
I'll repeat what I said in the other thread - everywhere I can find anything about this subject, where people have actually asked and people have confirmed - if you roll back to 314.xx drivers the "dead" cards actually work normally

a few people do seem to be knee jerk declaring their cards "dead" or RMA'ing them (successfully as presumably the vendors are testing them with the latest drivers)... but anywhere I can find so far where people have tested going back, fixes the issues
 
andybird123 said:
a few people do seem to be knee jerk declaring their cards "dead" or RMA'ing them (successfully as presumably the vendors are testing them with the latest drivers)... but anywhere I can find so far where people have tested going back, fixes the issues
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Of the problems I've read about 1/3rd of the people that believe 320.18 killed their GPU have been unable to get even a picture again (even at POST) to even try and install older drivers, others have managed to roll back fine.


EDIT: Does seem a lot of people are claiming these drivers have "killed" their GPUs as it goes to a black screen soon after booting into windows but when someones managed to persuade them to reinstall older drivers from safemode its all working fine again.
 
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I'm currently waiting for my 780 to arrive, does anyone know what version of drivers are on the CD? if its the latest can i find the older drivers somewhere else.

These 320 drivers sound dirty!
 
Just had a hard lock up on said drivers.

New install as well.. Ahhh well ill download the older version that I had before I put my haswell rig together.

Never had any issues with 314.22....why all the issues with 320.18? My gtx 480 isn't overclocked and is a reference design and thats what nvidia 'say' the problem is overclocked non reference cards.

Shawrey
 
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