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    Nvidia video card owners READ THIS

    Posted 15 years 2 months ago
    • Article link here .a snippet from the article wrote:
      NVIDIA 196.75 kills video cards
      05 Mar 2010 at 02:26:09 by Tom Hernandez
      pc

      Several StarCraft II beta testers have reported their PC or video cards have died after installing the NVIDIA 196.75 drivers. The large amount of reports have prompted Blizzard Entertainment to issue an official statement on the tech support forums after identifying the source of the problem.

      Some players were blaming the StarCraft II Beta client's latest patch, but a Blizzard Tech Support representative quickly explained the issue is caused by the latest NVIDIA 196.75 drivers.

      Blizzard recommended to uninstall the NVIDIA 196.75 drivers, and to downgrade to the previous driver version: 196.21. Starcraft II Beta is not the only application affected, thus this is a worldwide alert to every gamer out there. Blizzard concluded the fans control in this NVIDIA driver is not working properly.

      This means every single 3D application (i.e. games) running these drivers is going to be exposed to overheating and in some extreme cases it will cause video card, motherboard and/or processor damage. If said motherboard, processor or graphic card is not under warranty, some gamers are in serious trouble playing intensive games such as Prototype, World of Warcraft, Farcry 3, Crysis and many other games with realistic graphics.

      Uninstall that driver, run DriverSweeper (recommended) and install the previous Nvidia driver if you are using the affected driver (196.75). I don't recommend using the Windows "Roll Back Driver" function.

      Cheers
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  • Re: Nvidia video card owners READ THIS

    Posted 15 years 2 months ago
    • ack not good. good thing i havent updated the drivers on my 285. Thanks for the post!
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  • Re: Nvidia video card owners READ THIS

    Posted 15 years 2 months ago
    • I can't thank you enough for this post! I bought an Nvidia card last year to help with my graphics programs. Believe me, it got a work out. Everything was fine until about a week after I upgraded. Then the fan just died. The card got so hot it melted the fan connectors on one side and it almost fell off the card inside the computer! Believe it or not, the card was still functional but you can't replace the fan on them and you can't find connectors that fit! What a rip off.

      Fortunately, I caught it before any further damage was done. I just purchased a new card and installed the new drivers two days ago. After reading this, I immediately removed the drivers and went back to the old driver version. NOW, I can hear the fan running. I just thought the fan was "cool and quiet" like they advertise.

      Thank you MUCHLY for the heads up on this! It is most appreciated and I expect to get more than a few months out of my graphics card now.

      Carol 8)
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