Nvidia GPU Settlement Covers Apple, Dell, and HP

You know, maybe Nvidia should start doing things right the first time...

*smug little jab in the kidney*

Atleast Nvidia pay up to get the issue fixed, not like asome other companies - Make some lame excuse and offer some so called fix for a limited time hoping the media storm blows over and they saved some money by screwing their customers!

Great. I have 2 systems on this list. Both GPUs on both systems (one Dell and one Apple) run VERY hot. I can hardly wait until they fry themselves and I get to wade through this process. Still, better than nothing.

Yay they are owning up to systems with defective cards from 4 years ago. That should have been fixed then. Most people just moved on from those oldest systems i bet.

Thanx for taking 2 yrs to pay out Nvidia, you obviously care about your customers...

nVidia's customers are OEMs in that particular case. You should talk to Apple, HP and Dell for not checking what stuff they placed in their own product. If that was a defect in every single unit (like people tell) then someone at those companies should have noticed way before selling the notebooks. You just don't make a product without testing it a little bit before selling.

nVidia did wrong in not keeping an eye on the production. They should have had better QA to spot such problems and stop shipments.

And then there are the nVidia's contractors, who did the shoddy job at producing the chips (nVidia, much like Intel and AMD doesn't manufacture chips in-house).

There was a long chain of errors. nVidia is certainly to blame because they didn't had enough controls to prevent this from happening, but the real production of shoddy chips was done by third party manufacturers, and by the OEMs witch didn't have a decent QA policy or simply didn't care. All those products are for the consumer market anyway.

What are we supposed to do if we started parting our system out because it died? I can send in what I've got but I sold the memory, wireless card, and burner. I bet they won't accept it unless it's a complete system.

I personaly feel safer about nvidia right now than the competition, usualy companies who been burnt by costly quality issues walk ahead of the competition quality wise (before they forget the cost and slowly drop the quality again until its time to get reminded again!)

damn it, my HP laptop I had to send it before to repair because my GPU would overheat....unfortunately I won't be able to change it because my product identification number is not on the list.

sweet for me...
i have two d620s and even though both are working fine,
i feel the need to register for UPGRADES or MONEY..!
ima justa smilin'.. lol

how are they going to replace my hardware? do they have a huge stock of mobos sitting around with 2-year old gpu in it?

i think the options are current replacement equivalent for most and then replacements for others.
I'm not quite sure, I didn't read entire document, I just registered and keep moving after I got certain facts..

what about the rest of the companies that used these chip in their laptops will nvidia pay to have those fixed as well or do those customer get fk'd up the butt. just wondering lol

you'll have to check the list.
if your not on there then I guess not.
maybe there is another class action coming but it seems this one it just from a certain time period.

I'm a little sad here I made the mistake of buying an nVida GPU the previous time arround. It did fail on me but since I bought an eVGA add in board that's on me isn't it

It's pass the potato where consumers loose, getting outdated replacements when someone must've asked NVIDIA for state of the art crap guaranteed to fail. Now NVIDIA has to pay up for somebody going for cheap & consumers get more of the same too little too late.

I see five of these a week (on average) that people have to replace (mainly the dv series). too bad it takes so long to get something done about bad manufacturing....

This is from those defective 9300 Series integrated cards that suck....

Hmmm, I was one of the HP dv9309 owners. Laptop died after 16 months (I say die but it was just the gpu - machine still ran). After fighting with HP about it for over a year and a half I finally gave up and bought a new Lenovo 2 months ago. ATI graphics and I've never been happier - it doesn't burn my lap either.

I actually want to thank both HP and Nvidia for making my buying decisions that much easier.

Still better than a rubber band to fix a substantial design error.

I could have sworn that Nvidia has been paying out a lot more than $2 million just in RMA, I thought I heard some manufacturers offering warranty extensions at least? How does that play if they got something already from the manufacturer?

I guess directly settling with customers themselves is the next step. 2 million for it is pretty tiny though, Everyone might get a few dollars at least, people could say "I bought a burger with my laptop settlement." Going rates for laptop repair aren't cheap.

I figure about 12 thousand people could get repairs at current rates for quickie reflow repairs, 6 thousand if they have to replace the motherboard. Get your settlement in quick!

Engineers in many companies are pressured to use failure mode prediction and analysis as a tool for orchestrating planned obsolescence of a given design. Sometimes this is necessary to cut initial costs in a very cost competitive market. Heat and wear are two of the most useful methods of accomplishing that goal, as the effects can be predicted with reasonable accuracy by accelerated life-cycle testing. Unfortunately, engineers can make mistakes in their predictions. One such example being transmissions from a certain auto manufacturer who predicted their failure at >180,000 miles, but it actually ended up being ~100,000 miles. Some Engineers in those positions can actually become 'proud' of their ability to predict design induced failure with great accuracy (as it was told to me).

Uhuh... How about ATI failures? Like x1600 mobile graphics? Why did no one bother to sue them?