My computer recently self destructed the other day due to the NVIDIA 196.75 driver update. Read more about it
here
While trying to figure out exactly why my computer was chugging and blue screening I ended up frying my graphics card and potentially other components of my computer. The new driver update causes the fan on your NVIDIA graphics card to not function properly.
Please be aware of this issue so you don't roast your valuable equipment. Rollback to an earlier driver version if you have updated recently.
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Also have you reported this to the NVIDIA?
EDIT: I am glad I am still running GF 8800 Ultra.
or more like, It's official and they're most likely working on a fix.
I skipped this driver update because i was on mobile internet when it came out, otherwise i would propably install it :S
Thanks for passing on the info.
Next time maybe go with fanless card, no need to worry so much about heat and zero noise.
Thanks for the warning though, I DID install it. But luckily I didn't do any heavy gaming, otherwise I may have fried my card too. Just uninstalled it and reverted back to 196.21.
editt* Nevermind! They have detailed explanation how! Thanks!
The odd thing was even though the fan was manually set to 100% the temp was 15deg higher with the 196.75 then the same section of the game with the old drivers.
odd.