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Nvidia Users Beware, Latest Drivers May Damage Your PC

There is obviously a problem. What I'm really surprised about is that these things slip out past QC. It must be a very strange set of circumstances for it to not be picked up by NVidia's QC and only effect such a small number of users and I say small number of users, because even if there is a few hundred or even a couple of thousand users effected, that is such a tiny number compared to how many cards they have sold and given the fact that their software tells you to update, or windows 10 does it for you.

Bottom line it is not good, something needs to be done.
 
tommybhoy said:
Zotac have a no cooler removal policy, they couldn't tell, as long as you are careful and didn't butcher the screws/pcb/cooler, I imagine there is not a lot can be said.
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i'm sure ive seen in the warranty that they allow cooler removal however if the process damages the GPU then warranty is void.

FYI for all the people saying what you onabout drivers are working perfectly for me dosn't mean there isn't a problem. Also dosn't mean there is one. But i experienced a horrible scare last time which caused my computer to boot loop and i thought it some how knackerd my Motherboard. Finally fixed it with flashing the bios and fresh install of windows but just cos you dont have a problem doesn't mean one doesn't exists.
 
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So considering I just bought a cheap 960 for a new build (stopgap for Pascal), what is the latest stable driver version I should install? 362.00? Or an even older one?
 
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Curunen said:
So considering I just bought a cheap 960 for a new build (stopgap for Pascal), what is the latest stable driver version I should install? 362.00? Or an even older one?
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362.00 was extremely stable for me & im on 362.72 without issues too.

on side note buggy drivers might be because their adding in new card support (unlikely but thats my dream :D)
 
364.71 are rubbish if you also use Adobe products that make use of the GPU, at best a driver kernal crash, at worst, the entire system blackscreens and reboots.

Especially if you have more than 1 GPU and also have GSync. I found the only way to not crash constantly was to Disable SLI and Windowed Mode GSync until I was done working in Premiere Pro.

This also means I couldn't even have Chrome running if it used Hardware Acceleration as it would try to use a GPU, and Adobe would have none of it.

Rather annoying to say the least, I use to watch some Netflix when projects were rendering or encoding. Even if I disable Chrome Hardware acceleration it would still sometime flip its top. Windowed GSync was certainly a big no no on the latest drivers if Premiere Pro was open.

The most stable drivers I've used lately was 361.75.
 
smogsy said:
362.00 was extremely stable for me & im on 362.72 without issues too.

on side note buggy drivers might be because their adding in new card support (unlikely but thats my dream :D)
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Heh, well windows had it's own ideas - I didn't realise windows 10 automatically installs drivers unless you disable the option - by the time I found out it had already downloaded and installed 358.91. :/

Well at least it picked one that seems to be fine so far so I'll just leave it alone.
 
tommybhoy said:
https://www.zotac.com/gb/page/product-warranty-policy
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so as not to diverse the thread anymore I can confirm having had a Zotac card and it being returned for repair they refused as I had removed the cooler.
They could tell because the screws were black painted and scratched due to being removed.
(GTX 280)

However the same warranty void goes for my GTX 980ti, with cooler removed and Hybrid cooler installed. Touch wood.

and to keep it on track I've been using 364.72 and no issues. In fact they fixed my SW Battlefront crashes.
 
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