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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53578

According to Blizzard\'s Tech Support the latest
NVIDIA drivers are causing fan control to not work correctly and causes
massive overheat. StarCraft II Beta might kill your PC or card
literally. So, if you already installed it, uninstall it and downgrade
to the previous
version. Yeah, it\'s that serious. Many play

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PoliticalMaestro · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:17 pm Post subject:

Lucky for me i still have the previous driver installed, besides can we expect an apology from the head of nvidia to the world community in failing to prevent the overheating of graphics cards ? Something like the Toyota head crying and bowing his head on international TV would suffice.

Csimbi · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:03 pm Post subject:

I use RivaTuner to manage the fan speeds, so obviously I have no such issues.
Thanks for the warning though.

Sabot · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:15 pm Post subject:

Wow, how on earth do you prove your card was fried with those drivers?
I mean Nvidia could say it was fate etc. Even with a DX diag showing date installed it wouldn't happen, imagine millions of overclockers saying Nvidia killed my card! Just to get a new one.
How on earth do warranties work? Are Nvidia at least informing card manufacturers so they can do detailed tech work on RMA's??...what a can of worms. Shocked

nb411 · Elite Member Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 497

I noticed the fan was louder than normal when I loaded a game today but didn't think anything of it. I had quite a decent gaming session, and everything still seems ok. I have put the old drivers back on just to be safe. WHQL what?

tub0rg · Junior Member Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 151

unless you have a preatty old card you nearly cant fry it anyway, it will just cut out when it gets to hot and youll get a nice grey screen.

Ozieo · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 648

They should put nVidia in jail for heating the earth !!!

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4289

Ouch, glad I stuck with my existing drivers and just upgraded PhysX. I'm betting it wasn't a fault in nVidia drivers, probably the shitware from Blizzard is more at fault. There are safeguard measures built into card. If people over ride them with utilities, it's their own fault. The GPU and card will literally shutdown at certain temperatures just like the cpu on the motherboard.

Drivers don't kill cards, users kill cards. As per the norm, you can expect to see. "I don't overclock, I don't use this or that..". Pfft. Nvidia doesn't have to worry about jack Stumpus. Their drivers aren't at fault it's the game or peoples fucking around with drivers.

Sabot · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:44 pm Post subject:

I wish my BFG GeForce 7800GT had 'just shut down', prior to it failing Sad

The fan was running clearly, but obviously not enough to give me an indication of its impending doom.... Not temp diode, no nothing onboard. Just locked up my system, corrupted my WinXP install -obviously thinking it was a failing HD -all indication pointed to it; bad sectors,corrupt NTFS, blah...blah. Changed HD fresh install, played fine then bang! Ascertained from there it was the card as i had the side off with a 8" fan blowing in and started to notice artifacts and so on. That card (I still have it) the fan runs and it will play less intensive games, BUT as soon as you played a heavy session BANG, OS gone etc.
So no, damage manifests itself in many ways and may take longer to show up in the long run -as the case was with my card and a slooooooowly dying fan Evil or Very Mad

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4289

tub0rg · Junior Member Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 151

that sounds like you burned your thermal paste between the gpu and the heatsink, if you remove the heatsink an all you see is black residue just put on fresh paste and your card should run fine.

Sabot · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:52 pm Post subject: