Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Nvidia driver bug in version 196.75

KDH3BH3ZXF5U When I want to try to find the latest driver update for my NVIDIA graphics driver on the website of the official NVIDIA, i have a little curiousity to see the warning recommends that wrote for users who have downloaded the version 196.75 to uninstall it and go back to driver version 196.21 because it was found a problem with these drivers thus causing the cooling fan is not working properly.
After reading the official nvidia forums, many users have found physical damage on the graphic card for VGA cooling fan is not spinning at the maximum temperature of the card even has exceeded the maximum threshold. Some cards have confirmed the problem, among others: GeForce GTX 280, GTS250, GT220, 8800GTS, 9800GT. Fortunately the graphics card (G103M) my notebook was not included therein, and the driver was not wearing a version of 196.75. Although not all NVIDIA cards would be damaged by using this driver, check to be safe drivers on your computer and if the driver was using 196.75 version had better get back back to the previous driver. Because when referring to the Terms of Service NVIDIA, if the damage caused by drivers who had been released by NVIDIA for the beta or WHQL version can not be change.

Here's how to do the Roll Back:

To roll-back to a previous version you can open windows explorer, then right-click My Computer, select display adapters, then right-click the NVIDIA GeForce xxx, and select Properties. Then press the Roll Back Driver.

(To check your VGA driver version, see the last 5 digits driver version on the Properties window)

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