nVidia Defective GPUs Overheat

This was posted in Engadget.com today (July 3, 2008) regarding overheating
of older series nVidia 8000-series graphic chips used in Dell XPS and
Inspiron laptops as well as MacBook Pros and other notebooks.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/n...-are-defectiv/


The "fix" is a new driver release that runs the cooling fan speed at full
blast from the start.

"Rich" <rmilberg@ptd.net> wrote in message
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> This was posted in Engadget.com today (July 3, 2008) regarding overheating
> of older series nVidia 8000-series graphic chips used in Dell XPS and
> Inspiron laptops as well as MacBook Pros and other notebooks.
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/n...-are-defectiv/
>
>
> The "fix" is a new driver release that runs the cooling fan speed at full
> blast from the start.
>


For that kind of money, I think I'd prefer a replacement card. NVidia has
had their share of overheating chips and failing fans over the years....

"Rich" <rmilberg@ptd.net> wrote in message
news:bN6dnSYgmpc0evHVnZ2dnUVZ_uLinZ2d@ptd.net...
> This was posted in Engadget.com today (July 3, 2008) regarding overheating
> of older series nVidia 8000-series graphic chips used in Dell XPS and
> Inspiron laptops as well as MacBook Pros and other notebooks.
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/n...-are-defectiv/
>
>
> The "fix" is a new driver release that runs the cooling fan speed at full
> blast from the start.
>Actually . I've got a bloke who can repair these and does with a very high
>success rate, and apparently he tells me that it was all down to the wrong
>type of solder used it was either melt point to high or melt point to low,
>and apparantly it causes the dry joints to expand and breaks the
>connections hence the blocking if put under stress