gradinaruvasile
March 6th, 2010, 03:21 PM
I post a link to the discussion on the Lucid Lynx section, but this serious issue affects all who use the above mentioned driver versions, regardless of ubuntu version:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1422970
I did some googling as i too used the 195.36.08 drivers:
- Some Windows users have reported fried video cards with the driver 196.75, related to fans that stopped working - due, it seems, to a bug in the drivers automatic fan profile handling or something like that. The fan did not start at all, although it should have when the card reaches a preset
temperature - the cards literally fried. In the accounts i saw were high end cards (8800 and the like) used for gaming as far as observed.
That driver version seemingly has the same changes that the Linux 195.36.08 version.
The nvidia devs pulled the 195.36.03 and 195.36.08 drivers from the download site and advise all who has installed these drivers to use the 190.53 or 195.30 drivers instead.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1422970
I did some googling as i too used the 195.36.08 drivers:
- Some Windows users have reported fried video cards with the driver 196.75, related to fans that stopped working - due, it seems, to a bug in the drivers automatic fan profile handling or something like that. The fan did not start at all, although it should have when the card reaches a preset
temperature - the cards literally fried. In the accounts i saw were high end cards (8800 and the like) used for gaming as far as observed.
That driver version seemingly has the same changes that the Linux 195.36.08 version.
The nvidia devs pulled the 195.36.03 and 195.36.08 drivers from the download site and advise all who has installed these drivers to use the 190.53 or 195.30 drivers instead.