Solve : Recent Nvidia drivers causing catastrophic failures?

1.	Solve : Recent Nvidia drivers causing catastrophic failures?
Answer» If you're using an Nvidia graphics card you should check your drivers, as there is a chance the newest drivers could cause your card to overheat during WORLD of Warcraft, the Starcraft II Beta, or even Warcraft III. Blizzplanet reports the issue complete with links to two threads on the Nvidia forums discussing the issue, including one that states that Nvidia will be updating the driver in the near future. Link Just curious, how can a PIECE of software like drivers cause hardware to overheat?Quote from: Helpmeh on March 06, 2010, 06:12:36 AM Just curious, how can a piece of software like drivers cause hardware to overheat? Software is what controls the temperature detection and speed variations of the fans on COMPUTER hardware. If they're not being properly cooled they'll overheat.Lucky Im still using the 196.21 Drivers and haven't UPDATED them just yet. interesting... this might explain why I was getting graphical artifacts at the windows desktop with the LATEST version after a while but rolling back to the earlier version worked fine.

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