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Daave
Antares said:I just came across the following site and now I'm wondering if maybe
all my recent spate of problems might have been caused by the NVIDIA
Drivers. Do any of you have any further insights into this.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7551
Here's the opening clip from this site in case you don't have time to
visit it and read the full text.
I'm getting a steady stream of reports in from NVIDIA users that the
latest 196.75 drivers can cause severe cooling problems, even possibly
resulting in the death of the hardware.
The problem seems to be related to the fan controller, causing the
fans to slow down, and even stop. This happening while the card is in
use is a very bad thing indeed, and can cause poor performance (as the
GPU tries to cool itself down by reducing power) and possibly even
overheat your GPU to the point where the card stops working.
---copy/paste from web site---
NVIDIA 196.75 drivers were released on Marc 2nd, and have now been
removed from the download site. If you are running these drivers it is
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you uninstall this driver and immediately
downgrade to the 196.21 drivers.
So, did you roll back the driver? If so, is your problem gone? Enquiring
minds want to know!