The 196.75 GeForce drivers are dangerous so dangerous.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 02:29:03 Fri, March 05, 2010

Nvidia's whole entire software suite is dangerous. There. That is the first and last time that I will parody a Busta Ryhmes song on this site.

Now to business. If you have the 196.75 GeForce drivers installed please uninstall them and revert back to the previous release (196.21) right away. 196.75 is so dangerous that Nvidia has pulled them from their site until they can be fixed. Here is a quote from Nvidia's driver download page:

196.75 Alert!
We are aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues with the latest 196.75 WHQL drivers on NVIDIA.com. Until we can verify and root cause this issue, we recommend that customers stay with, or return to 196.21 WHQL drivers. Release 196.75 drivers have been temporarily removed from our website.

9 Comments

Saturday, March 06, 2010 12:32:25 AM

=Visionhide=
n00b

You know what?

I thought something was wrong with that driver. I had it installed, and my GPU would just suddenly overheat just by being on idle, and some settings had changed in my Asus SmartDoctor! Im so glad i reverted back to the old driver, lucky i still had it!

Saturday, March 06, 2010 12:24:11 PM

Tofuman88
n00b

lol dang...is this an omen to their much anticipated FERMI release on the 26th? hmmmm

Saturday, March 06, 2010 1:22:48 PM

ultima
Senior Member

step right up everyone !
come and see the whirring blades of death !

Saturday, March 06, 2010 7:45:47 PM

Nyterage
n00b

Wow, Nvidia Frying their own cards, this is turning out to be a EPIC battle of ATI and Nvidia and Nvidia now destroying there own cards makes it even more halarious to watch ATI finnaly get some credit around the graphics card industry that isint for low prices.

Saturday, March 06, 2010 8:21:46 PM

Casecutter
Member

First the Overclocking bug now this! Nvidia drivers group is starting to lose some of their status.

Monday, March 08, 2010 3:24:26 PM

Pelter
Member

It actually hasn't been that bad for me. Before the update, my 295 used ro run between 75 - 85C at MAX load, now it runs at 90 - 100, but I can simply crank the fan to 100%. I guess because I have alot of external cooling. I may just wait it out because I need the SLI support in Battlefield:BC2

EDIT: Nevermind reverted, some of my other games wouldn't start...

Friday, March 12, 2010 6:06:23 PM

Casecutter
Member

They better pull back those driver cause have they ran a Fermi It would be PCB BBQ.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17921/65/

Sunday, March 14, 2010 3:56:15 AM

anonymousD
n00b

third party apps to control the fans are there for a reason :)

anyone seen the 'new' 300 line from nvidia? :D

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:25:26 AM

Casecutter
Member

Then What Up with their Control panel? All of a sudden, forum are abuzz with problem with Nvidia driver 196.75 and a " says the control panel could not be installed, this may affect driver functionality will revert to previous driver" It really appears Nvidia has redirected some resources or cost%u2013cutting that went down months earlier and it%u2019s now catching up with them. Probably goes like this, Fermi was found 3-4 monthes to need lower clocks and Jen-Hsun Huang said to the driver group re-teach those chips to walk/run again and find every improvement you can with several B-M that Nvidia will oblige reviewers to use for first release of the NDA engineering samples.

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