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NVIDIA 196.75 Drivers Kills Cards


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NVIDIA has removed the latest ForceWare 196.75 from their servers because this driver has an important bug: it prevents the fan from spinning and caused a death of multiple graphics cards around the world.

G92-based graphics cards (GeForce 9800GT, 9800GTX and GTS 250) seem to be very affected by this bug.

Source: Geeks3d

More information can be found on threads such as these:

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

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

http://www.incgamers.com/News/21293/nvidia-19675-kills-video-cards

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Shew, that was a close one. I didn't get around to installing this update on Win7 as yet but I did install it on XP. I guess I'm still lucky since my card is G94. This is a horrible driver release though, how the hell could they allow this to happen? Did nobody test the drivers before releasing them? nVidia development team is useless? WHQL is useless too?

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Shew, that was a close one. I didn't get around to installing this update on Win7 as yet but I did install it on XP. I guess I'm still lucky since my card is G94. This is a horrible driver release though, how the hell could they allow this to happen? Did nobody test the drivers before releasing them? nVidia development team is useless? WHQL is useless too?

GO ATI! :lol:

Guys.. I went to the shop yesterday.. and I found out that my GPU costs 80 euros now :(

I bought it for 150 euros 1,5 years ago.. suxx :(

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Shew, that was a close one. I didn't get around to installing this update on Win7 as yet but I did install it on XP. I guess I'm still lucky since my card is G94. This is a horrible driver release though, how the hell could they allow this to happen? Did nobody test the drivers before releasing them? nVidia development team is useless? WHQL is useless too?

GO ATI! :lol:

+1 :smartass:

Lots of companies these days are forgetting to test their software fully before releasing to the public, it seems. :think:

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Guys.. I went to the shop yesterday.. and I found out that my GPU costs 80 euros now :(

I bought it for 150 euros 1,5 years ago.. suxx :(

Well, that's not surprising at all. With that much time passed, and technology is developing very fast, it's completely normal.

Cheers ;)

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Guys.. I went to the shop yesterday.. and I found out that my GPU costs 80 euros now :(

I bought it for 150 euros 1,5 years ago.. suxx :(

Well, that's not surprising at all. With that much time passed, and technology is developing very fast, it's completely normal.

Cheers ;)

I know.. They have a formule for such things..

Like Moore's law.. it's sick.. :lol:

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