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Warning about nVidia 196.75 driver - can cause VGA's overheat

Beekeeper

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just found at: http://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk

196.75 Alert!
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 and root cause this issue, we recommend that customers do not download this driver. Instead, please stay with, or return to 196.21 WHQL drivers. Release 196.75 drivers have been temporarily removed from our website and we also are asking our partners and others to remove temporarily this 196.75 WHQL driver as well.
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Re: Warning about nVidia 196.75 driver - can cause VGA's overheat
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2010, 05:22:48 pm »
Thanks for the heads up!
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Badbonji

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Re: Warning about nVidia 196.75 driver - can cause VGA's overheat
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2010, 10:58:45 pm »
Of course they are safe to use if you manually set the fan speed  :D
They offer some performance benefits on newly released games over older drivers.
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Re: Warning about nVidia 196.75 driver - can cause VGA's overheat
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2010, 10:45:07 am »
Thanks, I had the last drivers and was the wrong one!