Modded drivers effect temperature to damage card?

Is it possible for a modded graphics card driver (like the ones from laptopvideo2go) could cause heating issues with your mobile graphics card to a point where it causes poor performance or residual temperature issues even AFTER the driver was uninstalled?

Could it modify/deactivate the temperature safety shut off mecahnism? or If a card was brought to the point of shutting off, would it be noticabley damaged to a point where it would have temperature or performance issues perminantly?

thanks,
Choco

 

Shouldn't. But unless you completely clean the registry of all remnants of the drivers then you could have issues with drivers giving you bad perfromance even when you revert to a known good set. There could also be a conflict there too. One exmple is that the drivers that came with my notebook gave me a fairly good performance with relatively low temperatures, I upgraded them to some from laptopvideo2go and found that suddenly I was downclocking like mad whilst playing games. I uninstalled these drivers, used driversweeper, and reinstalled the original. To my surprise I still had downclocking in games and my GPU temps would go quite high. So I uninstalled the drivers then did a search of the registry for anything to do with PowerMizer, and found at least 7 entries. I deleted the whole class and then reinstalled my original drivers. After this I found that there was no downclocking at all and the temperatures were back to reasonable levels.

 

so a card can be clocked differently with a new driver? argh, could this do permanent damage?

would Ccleaner help deleting those registry files? whats powermizer?

 

ccleaner can help. But I have found that it doesn't get rid of all of the remnants. PowerMizer is nvidia's way of keeping your gpu running slower when you don't need it to be a full speed. It dynamically downclocks the core and memory when you aren't running any 3d apps. Then puts the clock back up when you need the power. The idea behind it is to save battery life and keep the GPU cool. It is known to cause issues. Unfortunately there is no easy way to disable it in Vista without any registry hacking. Yet....Someone will no doubt find a way though.

 

So could this powermizer thing be the result of dodgey temperatures with some drivers? also does that mean that drivers CAN damage your card? or would you really have to have a badly cooled card already for the powermizer to make your card hot enough to fry? OR would you have to run it like this for ages?

 

Powermizer doesn't make your card run hotter, quite the opposite because it downclocks your card.