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.

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New Siggy; What do you think?


Last edited by WannaB on Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:37 am; edited 1 time in total

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.

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.

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New Siggy; What do you think?

Last ones I updated to were the 196.21 version...so I guess I am still ok.

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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 )

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New Siggy; What do you think?

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.

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Being a noob! How do you revert back?

Mayhem

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Ignore! Managed to do it ;)

Thx for the heads up!

Mayhem

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Thx for the info,m8.

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CPU: Intel Core i7 960  @ 3.20Gz
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage Gene lll
GPU: Asus 6950 2Gb
RAM: 6Gb
HD: Corsair F-120Gb SSD+ WD 1Tb Black.
OS: Windows 7 64 bits
Case: HAF-X Big tower.

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.

Thanks for the great post.m Always great when BK members share great info like this when they find it.

GOA.Luke*BK*

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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

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Did you try to call Nvidia and see what they would do for you?

GOA.Luke*BK*

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Wonder if they would even care? but its worth a try.

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Nvidia at least from BFG has been amazingly easy to work with.

GOA.Luke*BK*

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