ezlead Posted March 7, 2010 Posted March 7, 2010 (edited) I got this at SimHQ website: I figured this was a good place to put it so everyone would see it. Hi All - Just got this from ZDNet tech site: WARNING! NVIDIA 196.75 drivers can kill your graphics card. They will slow down or shut off your graphics card cooling fan. Hope no one has a problem, but better safe than sorry. If you recently updated drivers for NVIDIA, check it out. Apparently,NVIDIA has pulled them to fix them. I went to NVIDIA's site and they have WARNING also! http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7551 Edited March 7, 2010 by ezlead Quote
+Dave Posted March 8, 2010 Posted March 8, 2010 Thanks for the heads up. I am glad I didn't touch mine. Quote
ZeroFilth Posted March 8, 2010 Posted March 8, 2010 Apparently the driver causes a malfunction on the automatic FanSpeed control on some VGA', apparently causing it to come to a complete stop in some cases , that makes it to overheat and stop working. Quote
JediMaster Posted March 8, 2010 Posted March 8, 2010 Long ago I stopped upgrading my drivers the minute they were released because of horror stories like this one. I tend to stick with the last gen drivers. Quote
+ST0RM Posted April 1, 2010 Posted April 1, 2010 SF2:I has been CTD'ing lately and so I dug this thread back up to check the version. I'm running 196.21, so it must just be a hickup. -S Quote
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