Nvidia alert re: 196.75 release (fan issues)

This may account for some of the strange over-heating issues popping up recently. Anyway, for those who have not seen it:

Here’s a link for instructions on how to roll back your driver.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/driver_rollback.html

(Saw this on Anandtech)

 

Drivers aren't going to affect fan speeds in a laptop.

 

This is from Nvidia's own web site. Note part I have put in BOLD.

I believe you may be incorrect in your assertion. Anyway, I thought it was worth sharing here as some have reportedly fried their GPU's because of this.

Cheers!

 

Those driver versions apply to desktop 200 series video cards.

 

I'm no expert and don't claim to be. But in the Nvidia forums a lot of people are reporting issues with many different series (e.g. 8xxx, 9xxx, etc.) - fan speeds and over-heating after installing these drivers. Enough to make Nvidia pull them off their site.

I have no idea if they are right or wrong. I was just trying to help someone avoid this as I, myself, experienced the dreaded Nvidia problems last year. Fan control helped out with those issues.

Anyway, I guess everyone can decide for themselves what to make of this.

 

Only reason I pointed that out is because that affected driver is for desktop video cards, and won't work for the mobile video cards in our laptops here.

 

^that. laptop fan speeds are managed by ACPI, not nvidia.

 

Bron5's status: told.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5979316&postcount=25

 

That reminds me, I still have to try those drivers. Going to need a manual install and all.

 

It puts more FPS in the basket.

 

And more heat under the hood? Remember, I don't have a Klevo like oyu do.