NVIDIA GPUs blamed for failures in some HP desktops!!

Not looking good for Evil Nvidia..More shocking news!!

Artice:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/ha [...] p-desktops

Nvidias problems just keep increasing...AMD GPU's selling like hot cakes

AMD4Life!!

Yes, old news. The chip in question is actually a motherboard chipset with integrated graphics, specifically the GeForce 6150 LE. So while it is likely to be an NVIDIA chip at the center of the failures, it may or may not be the IGP part of the chipset that's failing.

Yeah, we all know nVidia has issues. IIRC they even allocated $200 million recently to pay for product recalls. So what's new? AMD had its own share of disasters, remember that TLB bug? nVidia will fix its mess, like AMD did with its own. Frankly right now I'm more worried by the mess the banks made. That hurts nVidia right now more than nVidia's own problems.

If you end with AMD4Life!!, you won't be taken seriously, you know...

nVidia Evil???

AMD and nVidia went hand in hand prior to ATI's acquisition of AMD. ATI gave evil Intel Crossfire.

The nForce boards were the best AMD boards around for the longest time. Prior to June 06 Didi you own a nVidia card like most other AMD users? After that did you throw the card out the day ATI acquired AMD.....oops AMD acquired ATI.

1Haplo

Apparently if nothing is made by AMD/ATI then it is ***EVIL***.

For those of you who are religous, it seems you are all gonna go to hell 'cause you are worshiping God and Jesus (just to name a few) instead of Athlon/Phenom and Radeon.

This thread is as worthless as tits on a boar.

to say its just laptop parts that are bad is wrong it affects desktop parts as well but they run cooler so it will not show up in them, not unless ur case has bad cooling

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My brother bought an HP desktop at Fry's last year and all of the sudden he downloaded a new windows update for his Vista 32 bit. Now his computer starts an error that says its the Nvidia display driver for his 8400GS video card. There was no way to fix this! The monitor just shuts off whenever anything 3D runs. I've tried driver removal programs and reinstalled drivers on nvidia's website. Didnt work. I also tried windows nvidia driver update. I've had so much problems with it i'm rebuilding him a new computer and just salvaging the Q6600 that came with it. I was so appauled at the components that were inside the case as he spent almost $1000 on it and it came with a 300watt power supply. What a joke HP is. Do not buy their products they put the cheapest parts in there with a 1 year warranty.

whats the use of pre-built systems anyway?

If it weren't for pre-built systems, where could companies put bloatware?!? Geez.... put yer thinkin cap on.

Reality is though, not everyone knows how to build a PC. And lots of folks don't have friends who can. So for the mainstream person the only option is a pre-built system. They're for folks who shop Best Buy, Staples, Circuit City, etc for computer stuff.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/N [...] ,6248.html

It states that its the G84 and 86s. As for the G92s and 94s, they don't kno they are just assuming.

"Demerjian wrote that, in addition to currently repaired notebooks, G84/6 GPUs may show failures and even G92 and G94 chips could be affected. "

Either way I went through the G92s, G94s etc and didn't have any probs, So i don't kno w:S

There are no problems with g92/g94 gpus whatsoever. It's made up. There are passive cooling versions of cards using them for a long time now, they consistently run at 80+C, and haven't failed.

This "news" comes from the Inquirer. You know what that means.

What "mole?" Any random person can claim whatever they want and make up news. This "news" come from Inquirer. This article, in particular. Ah, now that's some good objective journalism.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inqu [...] reportedly

The Apple claims were posted by Apple tho

I wouldnt scoff at anything Ars puts out tho. Cant get alot better.

Ask Maziar

thats not what dagger is saying about the bumps, shes saying that there was no problem in the first place!


This is just a war now I knew it would happen

You just said that apple is the one that was complaining. Thats 1 company, and what dagger is trying to say is that there was no proof other than Apple saying "the gpus are broken", she's saying that there is no evidence. THIS IS WAT she is saying, and so far I agree with her.

Either way it didn't affect me uptill now and I doubt it ever will, since I moved onto the new GPUs, and my laptop has G94 series, which def wasn't affected since there is no Apple Notebook with G94 that I've ever seen.

Remember when we were all little kids...we all did things that we shouldn't have. When we did these, did we go run to our mom and tell her what we did? Or did we wait to see if she found out so we wouldn't get into lots of trouble? I think this may be bigger than what they say it is.

ok how about this, what you 2 are saying is just speculation, lol

Is it logical wat ur saying? yes ofc, is it true? we'll never officially know There would be a massive recall if all their sh!t was defective, the'd loose even more stock if they didn't recall.

So really everything here is speculation, its like the michael jackson situation, do we really kno if that boy was touched just because he said so? I mean we kno he did something, although we have no proof that he did or didn't do the molesting.

Anyways I'm done arguing I couldn't care less. I mean they have no competition so really it won't affect them for laptops.

I'm not trying to speculate. I'm just trying to put this whole situation into perspective. When I do something wrong, the last thing I want to do is tell my boss right away and get in more trouble. Nvidia could be fine, or they could be knee deep in Sh**. Either way, there is a chance they did or didn't. You're right, we may never know, but if cards start failing at a high rate, we'll definitely know beyond a reasonable doubt

OMZZGZ I HAF NVIDIA CHIPSET IN TEH LAPTOP.

idc. nvidia ftw. ati ftw. fanboys FTL.

can anybody explain here why my OC'd 8600gt (reference cooler, 75mhz oc) is pushing 1 year 3 months already?

anyway, some people here regard fudzilla/inq as the bible for tech news, (ie the gospel according to charlie)

You have lawsuits on failures, you have 200 Million $ from nVidia, and you 8600GT is part of those chips/cards thatre bad. As was said somehweres, the Slimlines are also affected to some degree. Its a heating/cooling issue, one that is real, and is being dealt with by everyone involved as best as possible, tho Apple seems o be a bit miffed because of their perceived quality. Maybe theyr not getting their chunk of the 200 million, who knows? Ill say this, I have a bit of manufacturing behind me, and any amount of cards, say 100, even from a bad batch, only a certain % will ever go bad, then add in the requirements to make them go bad, and the numbers dwindle, tho still higher than normal

Lawyers go where the money is. "Justice" ftw.