NVIDIA Recalls Linux Drivers Over Fan Speed Bug

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 6, 2010 11:05 PM EDT
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This week NVIDIA had to pull its latest WHQL-certified graphics drivers on Windows due to a bug that would cause the fan controller to not respond correctly to the current conditions of the GPU workload and in some cases would even turn the GPU's fan off. This bug could potentially kill the NVIDIA graphics card due to overheating. It turns out this potentially fatal bug is also present in their newest 195.36.08 and 195.36.03 Linux drivers.

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