He's talking about Charlie because he's too busy spinning to realize the article in question came from BSN and not SA.
Why don't you get yourself a green card so you don't have to deal with crappy ATI and we don't have to hear from you over and over without end. Good idea or what...
Personal attack from a guy with a ATI logo for an Avatar.
When something is crap, I call it like I see it,red or green.
Is it possible for this issue to kill a PSU? I would think if the fan wasn't running the worst-case scenario would be that the GPU dies, but someone else posted on another forum that the new drivers killed their PSU along with the cpu and mobo.
I'm getting some spare parts this weekend to test it out.
Coincidence? Or something more?
- nVidia releases drivers that fry older GPUs
- later that month, nVidia unveils a new line of video cards
This Charlie guy is just a plain fanboy fudspreader.
If your not smart enough to see through this......well..... never mind.
His next story will be 5 million cards MIGHT be effected.
Just ridiculous.:twisted:
I just bought a GTS 250 that was delivered on Tuesday. Uninstalled the old drivers, installed the new the video card and then installed the 196.75 drivers. Tried playing Mass Effect 2 and after a few minutes my whole computer abruptly shut off and would not power on (fans would not even turn on).
Prior to this, my system's been rock solid running about 3 years 24/7 most of the time. At this point, I'm hoping it's just the PSU that's toast and not also any of the other components. Is it possible for this issue to kill a PSU? I would think if the fan wasn't running the worst-case scenario would be that the GPU dies, but someone else posted on another forum that the new drivers killed their PSU along with the cpu and mobo.
I'm getting some spare parts this weekend to test it out.
I feel sorry for whatever poor sap actually made the error in the drivers that caused this. When I've made mistakes at work it didn't affect thousands of people across the world.
Actually what was the point in even releasing new drivers at this point? I saw someone said the last release broke OCing so I guess that might be one reason, but other than that what were these drivers meant to do? If it was just more game performance they should do like ATI now and seperate the two portions so that specific game tweaks are seperate. Maybe then they wouldn't have somehow screwed up the fan controller.
I just bought a GTS 250 that was delivered on Tuesday. Uninstalled the old drivers, installed the new the video card and then installed the 196.75 drivers. Tried playing Mass Effect 2 and after a few minutes my whole computer abruptly shut off and would not power on (fans would not even turn on).
Prior to this, my system's been rock solid running about 3 years 24/7 most of the time. At this point, I'm hoping it's just the PSU that's toast and not also any of the other components. Is it possible for this issue to kill a PSU? I would think if the fan wasn't running the worst-case scenario would be that the GPU dies, but someone else posted on another forum that the new drivers killed their PSU along with the cpu and mobo.
I'm getting some spare parts this weekend to test it out.
Wow if this has happened before you really have to be impressed by their marketing and/or customer care since so many people here think they have much better drivers than ATI.
I guess it helps that they catch the problem and pull the drivers instead of release a hotfix like ATI does. If you didn't have the problem you wouldn't know about it, and if they could make the few people with problems happy with a new card then the problem dissapears without anyone knowing about a bad driver release.
fwiw - I'm running the drivers with no issues with my EVGA 8800GT SSC, though I've always manually set my fan speed.