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1. Beware of NVIDIA 196.75 Driver update

   

   Topic by Kylen · Mar 2010 · Home› General Discussion

   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…

2. Re: Beware of NVIDIA 196.75 Driver update

   

   Reply by carlo_c · Mar 2010 · Home› General Discussion

   Cheers for the heads up, I usually update without checking anything about it will hold off for a bit

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   Reply by |Buddy| · Mar 2010 · Home› General Discussion

   Thats why i keep SpeedFan on at all times, knowing what the temps are helps a lot ;) I skipped this driver update because i was on mobile internet when it came out, otherwise i would propably install it :S

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   Reply by 3DLee · Mar 2010 · Home› General Discussion

   I almost updated to them a few days ago but didn't have the time. I use EVGA's Precision tool to keep my fans at 85% though, so I would have been ok. Hopefully nVidia sorts this out quickly, as I heard the drivers were quite good otherwise.

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   Reply by PolyHertz · Mar 2010 · Home› General Discussion

   If its not broke, don't fix it is my stance on updating drivers. Last time that happened was when playing the new Prince of Persia (which was an awesome game btw, sad that the dlc never came to pc :( ). The screen would go solid black when bosses performed certain moves, but the buttons you had to press to counter would…

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   Reply by metalliandy · Mar 2010 · Home› General Discussion

   i had the bad drivers installed and set the fan to 100% through the nvidia system tools and did a little test. 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.

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   Reply by ErichWK · Mar 2010 · Home› General Discussion

   Well this may explain why my Bad Company 2 games have been going all white.. how do you roll back your drivers? editt* Nevermind! They have detailed explanation how! Thanks!

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   Reply by hyrumark · Mar 2010 · Home› General Discussion

   Seems Nvidia has taken this new driver down from their website. 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.

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   Reply by Ben Apuna · Mar 2010 · Home› General Discussion

   Sorry to hear about your fried graphics card. Hopefully Nvidia will reimburse you somehow. Thanks for passing on the info. Next time maybe go with fanless card, no need to worry so much about heat and zero noise.

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    Reply by DrunkShaman · Mar 2010 · Home› General Discussion

    the link doesnt work.... Also have you reported this to the NVIDIA? EDIT: I am glad I am still running GF 8800 Ultra.