NVIDIAS LATEST DRIVERS KILLING GPUS AND BRICKING THEM / BLOWING UP PUTERS

[El Diablo]

this is the second time this year nVidiot drivers have bricked gpu,s and caused gpu dies to fry rendering the graphics card unusable

 

anyway this artikle is from wccftech.com and made by Khalid Moammer   http://wccftech.com/nvidias-latest-game-ready-driver-allegedly-killing-gpus-plagued-issues/

 

Nvidia GeForce users beware, the latest 364.72 Game Ready drivers may damage your PC and/or windows installation, driver plagued with issues. Reports of issues from many disgruntled Nvidia users on the GeForce forums as well as on reddit & various other forums have been pouring in for the past couple of days after Nvidia released its Game Ready 364.72 driver.

If you have an Nvidia graphics cards we’d recommend waiting this one out. As reports have been pouring in on Nvidia’s official GeForce forum and reddit from users who report running into all sorts of issues after installing the 364.72 Game Ready driver. Ranging from their systems failing to boot to crashes, blue screen crashes, gray & green screen artifacting, flickering, visual corruption, freezing, G-Sync issues, DSR scaling issues and there’s even reports of GeForce GTX graphics cards dying after driver installation.

Nvidia users on the GeForce forum reporting various issues after installing the 364.72 Game Ready driver.

Nvidia Users Beware, Latest Game Ready Driver May Harm Your PC – Stick To Your Last Stable Driver For Now

One Nvidia GeForce user reports on the Nvidia subreddit :

[PSA] WARNING: AVOID 364.72 (march 28) LIKE THE PLAGUE – it’s bricking cards left and right – and rollbacks are not working.

I’m not being hyperbolic here – there are hundreds of posts on reddit and the nvidia forums of people saying the latest driver update is bricking hardware. i’ve now seen multiple pics of people’s screens after the update, and it looks just like what happened to me.

I am NOT a hater on nvidia – i’ve got a shield and I literally use it every day – gamestreaming is almost the only way i consume gaming content now, but right now nvidia has seriously shit the bed on this one.

Hold out for the next driver.

EDIT: YES, MOST USERS WILL PROBABLY NOT HAVE PROBLEMS. It wouldn’t have gotten out of beta if it was a majority issue right? but do you want to risk your system being in that 1%?

Drivers should not brick hardware – at the worst, a rollback should resolve things. if this is happening to any number of systems, something is wrong.

EDIT 2: It looks like the entire 364* series of drivers is borked. I would just stay away from all of them. Also, RIP inbox 

It seems Nvidia has been facing some challenges getting Game Ready drivers out on time issue free as of late. Unfortunately this is the second time that a WHQL certified Game Ready driver has caused heartache for gamers in the past month. In fact so many users report running into the exact same issues that had afflicted the last game ready driver a little over three weeks ago.

If you’ve already downloaded and installed the drivers and you’re having issues you could try using driver removal tools such as Display Driver Uninstaller and uninstalling the driver in Safe Mode. If you haven’t installed the the 364.72 driver it’s recommended that you stay on the last stable version you have installed until most of the more issues are resolved.

ManuelGuzman
Today we released NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready WHQL display driver version 364.72.This Game Ready driver brings full support for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, optimizations and enhancements for virtual reality games such as EVE: Valkyrie, Chronos, and Elite Dangerous, and the latest support for NVIDIA VRWorks. Make sure your PC is GeForce GTX VR Ready before stepping into the Rift! The new driver also brings the latest support and enhancements for the upcoming HTC Vive headset. Learn more:

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/game-ready-drivers-for-virtual-reality-dark-souls-iii-and-more-released

You can download the new GeForce Game Ready 364.47 display driver through GeForce Experience or from the GeForce.com Drivers page.

Providing Feedback:
Please feel free to leave feedback for any driver related issues specific to this driver. By providing your information here, you may also help others who may be experiencing the same issue you are. The more information we receive from you and others, the easier it will be for us to reproduce this issue in our labs and provide a fix through a future driver. Alternately, you may provide this same information through our NVIDIA Display Driver Feedback Form below:

http://surveys.nvidia.com/index.jsp?pi=6e7ea6bb4a02641fa8f07694a40f8ac6

Please provide the following information as best you can:

1) Graphics card/GPU make and model:
2) Is this a driver regression? If yes, what was the last driver version which did not have this driver bug?
3) Operating System (Please indicate if you are on the Windows 10 Insider Program):
4) Is your graphics card manually overclocked/factory overclocked? If your graphics card is factory overclocked or manually overclocked, we recommend that you lower the clock speeds of your graphics card to NVIDIA reference clock speeds by using the NVIDIA Debug Mode as shown in the screenshot below:

5) If your issue is specific to a game or application, please provide the title and if possible version of the software
6) Describe the display driver issue you are encountering and if possible include step by step instructions on how to reproduce this bug. Please use the knowledge base article “How to provide valuable feedback to NVIDIA” as a guide to help you include information that will help us root cause the problem.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3141

7) Software/driver issues can sometimes be specific to a users system configuration. Please provide your system information so that we may attempt to match it as closely as possible.

CPU make and model:
Amount of system memory:
Motherboard make and model (if OEM system, please provide your PC make and model instead):
Motherboard BIOS version:
Monitor(s) make and model:
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8) If your system meets the driver requirements however the installation process fails or gives you an error message, please reinstall the driver with logging enabled so that we may investigate the cause for this issue. Instruction available from the URL below:

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3171

[Sakkura]

LOUD NOISES

 

Good info though. Nvidia's been on a bit of a "roll" lately... hope they get their shit together for Pascal.

 

PS: Inb4flamewar

[El Diablo]

Just now, Sakkura said:

LOUD NOISES

 

Good info though. Nvidia's been on a bit of a "roll" lately... hope they get their shit together for Pascal.

 

PS: Inb4flamewar

Yea i hope so too

 

im a fan of what AMD does, but i have a passion for tech in general and am a gamer, so i don't wish bad on anyone realy

 

nVidia been slacking big time recently

[patrickjp93]

This was an april fools prank orchestrated by Fudzilla. None of these posts is real.

[Sakkura]

1 minute ago, patrickjp93 said:

This was an april fools prank orchestrated by Fudzilla. None of these posts is real.

April fools in March?

[UnknownEngineer]

1 minute ago, patrickjp93 said:

This was an april fools prank orchestrated by Fudzilla. None of these posts is real.

I though it would be obvious, but I guess not.

[patrickjp93]

Just now, Sakkura said:

April fools in March?

They laid some groundwork, but it's spun out of control.

[escape093]

2 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

April fools in March?

Time zones are a thing. Also, 300 POST HYPE.

[Nacho Marco Segui]

What is a puter?

[Sakkura]

2 minutes ago, yorkiesandskittles said:

Time zones are a thing. Also, 300 POST HYPE.

Yeah it was March in Europe and March in the US. And even before March 31 in several cases.

[escape093]

2 minutes ago, Nacho Marco Segui said:

What is a puter?

It's what "80s kids" call a computer.

[El Diablo]

This isnt an april fools joke

[Notional]

I think NVidia is taking their planned obsolescence a little too far now /s.

 

I've read similar personal experiences on a Danish site, so this does not seem to be some weird urban legend thing. NVidia has really made some shitty drivers lately. Isn't this the third time in a year, a driver has bricked cards?

[El Diablo]

2 minutes ago, Nacho Marco Segui said:

What is a puter?

cumputer

[escape093]

2 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

Yeah it was March in Europe and March in the US. And even before March 31 in several cases.

Oh yeah. Just noticed the posts from March 28th.

[El Diablo]

Yeah this is a thing

 

feel bad for them people

 

do u think nvidia will try to give them new cards for free

 

the same thing happend to me once from an update from microsoft, it fried my motherboard dvd drive and gpu,, they wanted me to pay for it so i had to get government authorities involved, took 6 months but they fixed it for free

[i_build_nanosuits]

18 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

I posted something about this a few days ago but it got deleted

i'm using an nvidia GPU and i always use the latest graphics drivers and it always work like a charm...i,m using a single card and a single monitor and everything has been flawless since...forever honestly.

[MageTank]

Have been using this driver since its release, and have not had a problem with my GTX 770. While I won't discount the fact that it could be real, It just seems odd that so few people are having this issue. 

[Mattb6288]

I just updated them and had no problems with my 980 Ti

[El Diablo]

what specs do u guys have

 

everyone post your specs, and anyone who got issues post yours too,, 

 

maby u guys are lucky enough to have a spec that nVidia test themselfs inhouse

[i_build_nanosuits]

Just now, MageTank said:

Have been using this driver since its release, and have not had a problem with my GTX 770. While I won't discount the fact that it could be real, It just seems odd that so few people are having this issue. 

it's an april fool joke that spiraled out. That poor OP is spending all days hating on nvidia around here...for no good reasons.

[MEC-777]

Running these drivers with a 980. Totally fine so far.

[MageTank]

3 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

it's an april fool joke that spiraled out. That poor OP is spending all days hating on nvidia around here...for no good reasons.

Was gonna say. My brothers and my father all have nvidia GPU's, ranging as far back as G92 (9800 GT) to Fermi, to Maxwell, with me having Kepler. All of us are using this latest driver (Geforce experience automatically downloads them) and have not had any issues with it. I manually downloaded mine, as I wanted to see if it helped with The Division, but aside from no real performance improvement on my end, I have not had any negative side effects from updating.

[VagabondWraith]

It's not the first time I've seen his sensationalist propaganda around here. The same bs over and over.

[iamdarkyoshi]

Jeez, whats with nvidia's drivers lately?

 

This sucks, hope I dont kill my laptops gtx 750ti...