Re: [H] WARNING! NVIDIA 196.75 drivers can kill your graphics card

2010-03-05 Thread Joe User
Hello Tim, Friday, March 5, 2010, 3:53:06 PM, you wrote: > Wow! I have not seen a bad driver like this come from nVidia in a long time. > Looks like ATI is not the only one plagued with video driver issues. I still will not buy ATI, at least for a very long time. -- Regards, joeuser - Still

Re: [H] WARNING! NVIDIA 196.75 drivers can kill your graphics card

2010-03-05 Thread Tim Lider
Wow! I have not seen a bad driver like this come from nVidia in a long time. Looks like ATI is not the only one plagued with video driver issues. Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com > -Original Message- > From: hardware-boun...@hard

Re: [H] WARNING! NVIDIA 196.75 drivers can kill your graphics card

2010-03-05 Thread Stan Zaske
I have to say that if my card had died because of this new driver I'd have been very upset. But it's been running just fine. I thought at first there must be some mistake but I went to the web site and sure enough they had pulled it. Guess that means there will be another "new" driver to downlo

[H] WARNING! NVIDIA 196.75 drivers can kill your graphics card

2010-03-05 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
This is what we get when we only have two sources of video card chipsets: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7551&tag=nl.e539

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 & 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-03-05 Thread Scott Sipe
My only experience with Sapphire is with a x1900XT. I had one card that had a terrible high-pitched "whine" (not fan noise). I RMAed it after several months only to find the replacement had the whine too, so I just ignored it. Then that card died about a year later. Switched to an 8800GT and hav

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-05 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 05:14 PM 3/4/2010, JRS wrote: When you run "set" from the command prompt, what does it show as the user? It was showing Fred-PC$. After recreating the user, it works. Weird. T -- JRS stei...@pacbell.net Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. - Original Mes

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-05 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 05:10 PM 3/4/2010, Eli Allen wrote: The username comes from what is entered when you login not the actual username Yeah, but I'm clicking on the user to go into Windows, so I'm not typing anything. T

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-05 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 05:03 PM 3/4/2010, Christopher Fisk wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 04:29 PM 3/4/2010, Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a little batch file that uses %username% to do some stuff. That works fine in Windows XP and Vista, but in 7, it becomes username-PC$ - so if the u

[H] ForceWare 196.75 Can Kill Your GeForce Card!!!

2010-03-05 Thread Stan Zaske
My 9600 GSO has been using this driver without issue and yes my fan is spinning fine fold...@home 59C. Vista Home Premium X64. NVIDIA has removed the latest ForceWare 196.75 from their servers because this driver has an important bug: it prevents the fan from spinning and caused a death of mu