WARNING TO ALL NVIDIA USERS

WARNING TO ALL NVIDA GRPAHICS CARD USERS!!

Driver version 196.75's auto fan speed control is NOT WORKING. Your card may OVERHEAT.

Go to http://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk and download 196.21 drivers ASAP.

Thanks for reading!

We are aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues with the latest 196.75 WHQL drivers on NVIDIA.co.uk. Until we can verify the root cause for this issue, we recommend that customers stay with, or return to 196.21 WHQL drivers. The 196.75 drivers have been temporarily removed from our website.

Edited by Seansmit17 (Fri 05-Mar-10 20:37:49)

Thanks for the Heads up !, thankfully i'm still on 196.21.

I've upgraded to that version but, luckily, my 8600GT doesn't have a fan. (Couldn't stand the noise.)

Im using 196.34 at the moment.. was on 196.75

What the hell are they playing at. Mine appears to be working ok but will downgrade until it's fixed.

I just updated mine last night, I thought it would be a good idea to see if there was a update, they got 196.21, so they must have taken the other off.

Oh well the way it is going Nvidia will not be around for much longer, time to look at ATi i think.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I just updated mine last night, I thought it would be a good idea to see if there was a update, they got 196.21, so they must have taken the other off.

Oh well the way it is going Nvidia will not be around for much longer, time to look at ATi i think.

I'm on 196.21 myself - my dvi port has died, so I need to replace the 6800 LOL.. Need to anyway due to ps/3d useage etc. Really need to change mobo too (boohoo)..

Current list of replacements

2x monitors (ips based)
quad core or hex core cpu
ati 5700 class or better gpu ..
mobo .. (if am3 then memory too)...

Grrrrrrrr

In reply to a post by Taras:

I'm on 196.21 myself - my dvi port has died, so I need to replace the 6800 LOL.. Need to anyway due to ps/3d useage etc. Really need to change mobo too (boohoo)..

Current list of replacements

2x monitors (ips based)
quad core or hex core cpu
ati 5700 class or better gpu ..
mobo .. (if am3 then memory too)...

Grrrrrrrr

It is never ending, I was thinking of updating the whole system, but now think why bother.

My system is a Asrock N68Pv-gs motherboard
2gb of DDR2 ram,
a PNY Geforce 9400Gt video card, for some reason i thought it was a 9600.
a Athlon II dual core 250 processor, with is 3Ghz.

And various hard drives, also my new keyboard.

i was thinking of updating the whole lot, apart from Keyboard, but not really worth it, I need to get some more memory, DDR2 is a bit pricey, but then so is DDR3, the dual core does what I want.

The main things i want is more memory, a bigger hard drive, a 22 inch monitor and a bluray burner, oh yes and to replace my mouse.

I will get them first and then maybe I will chage the video card to a ATI one, it depends if Nvidia keeps going or not as a work mate told me yesterday that they are pretty close to going under.

The system is working fine at the moment, just when I do some complex video editing it slows down, due to memory more than anything.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I will get them first and then maybe I will chage the video card to a ATI one, it depends if Nvidia keeps going or not as a work mate told me yesterday that they are pretty close to going under.

Wow, since when/why has this come about ? i've only just bought a GTS250, pleased with it to.

In reply to a post by Simon_Pipex:

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I will get them first and then maybe I will chage the video card to a ATI one, it depends if Nvidia keeps going or not as a work mate told me yesterday that they are pretty close to going under.

Wow, since when/why has this come about ? i've only just bought a GTS250, pleased with it to.

Nvidia is in a mess atm

Re branded cards (8800 to 9800 gt 9800 gtx plus to geforce 250 etc) and many users don't realise. Add in that the first version of Femi is 6 months delays and only 15,000 units are gonna be produced.

So they now are gonna have to Femmi 2 and hopefully things will get better