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#1: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: WannaB, Location: North Carolina PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:32 am
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Please revert back to an older version of drivers asap!

Nvidia has reported people having issues with the video drivers locking up and causing the video cards fans to stop spinning thus causing the video card to overheat and die!

For people who dont overclock
Nvidia Drivers

For people who overclock
Nvidia Beta Driver

This should probably be sticky'd to reduce peoples hardware from burning up.

Last edited by WannaB on Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:37 am; edited 1 time in total
#2: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: McPain,  PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:36 am
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As a general rule I never update drivers for hardware devices once installed, unless I'm already having an issue. The above is a classic example of why I don't.
#3: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: WannaB, Location: North Carolina PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:39 am
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Actually its a good thing to get new drivers; Most due to the fact they release newer drivers to increase performance.

These new drivers increased performance by at least 33% on my machine. Just ill have to wait till they fix the fan issues with the drivers.
#4: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: The_Mad_CappR,  PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:44 am
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Last ones I updated to were the 196.21 version...so I guess I am still ok.
#5: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: WannaB, Location: North Carolina PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:26 am
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These drivers came out on the second i believe;

Im still using these drivers but i constantly monitor my specs so thats why ^_^

I find it hard to pass up the 20fps increase ( 50% increase from 40 to 60 in furmark )
#6: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: Spider, Location: Chicago PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:54 pm
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Wannabe, Thanks for sharing this information. I was lucky that you found this out last night and I rolled back the drivers having downloaded the 196.76 drivers the day they came out. Having damaged two "260's" that are only 3 months old would have been devastating.
#7: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: Mayhemlol, Location: London, UK PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:48 pm
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Being a noob! How do you revert back?

Mayhem
#8: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: Mayhemlol, Location: London, UK PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:18 pm
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Ignore! Managed to do it ;)

Thx for the heads up!

Mayhem
#9: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: Sabotage-NOR, Location: Norway PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:57 pm
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Thx for the info,m8.
#10: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: BlackEagle5, Location: St.Louis,MO,USA PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:09 pm
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well i think it killed my gts250 card not sure though but im going to test it out on my vista machine.


So that explains why my 8500 heatsink its extremely hot that i almost had to drop it.
#11: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: Luke, Location: Grand Rapids, MI PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:19 am
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Thanks for the great post.m Always great when BK members share great info like this when they find it.

GOA.Luke*BK*
#12: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: LawMan, Location: Florida PostPosted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:15 am
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My video card was a victim of these drivers, about one hour after the download on 03-02-10, my video card fried. R.I.P. 9800 GT 512 MB
#13: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: Luke, Location: Grand Rapids, MI PostPosted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:01 pm
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Did you try to call Nvidia and see what they would do for you?

GOA.Luke*BK*
#14: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: LawMan, Location: Florida PostPosted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 4:20 pm
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Wonder if they would even care? but its worth a try.
#15: Re: IMPORTANT! Nvidia 196.76 drivers! Author: Luke, Location: Grand Rapids, MI PostPosted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:35 pm
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Nvidia at least from BFG has been amazingly easy to work with.

GOA.Luke*BK*
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