cstoll
There have been a lot of discussions on this forum about this issue. Thought you would like to see what is going on in the industry...
Article from Slashdot - http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/01/0142219&from=rss
"An estimated 18 million laptops with NVidia G84 and G86 graphics chips sold in the past one and a half years are experiencing high failure rates. Various laptop models from multiple manufacturers (Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others) are affected. NVidia blames it on bad chip packaging causing thermal failure. BIOS updates that turn the laptop fan on more frequently or permanently have been released by Dell and HP. The cynical interpretation is that this is likely to only delay the problem until the warranty has expired."
NVidia Forums -
http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t72171.html
Follow-up articles -
http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208802249
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/31/hp-pays-half-nvidia-problems
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/09/nvidia-g84-g86-bad
A year ago NVidia said there were no problems - http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/04/12/there-are-no-mobile-g846-problems
Article from Slashdot - http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/01/0142219&from=rss
"An estimated 18 million laptops with NVidia G84 and G86 graphics chips sold in the past one and a half years are experiencing high failure rates. Various laptop models from multiple manufacturers (Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others) are affected. NVidia blames it on bad chip packaging causing thermal failure. BIOS updates that turn the laptop fan on more frequently or permanently have been released by Dell and HP. The cynical interpretation is that this is likely to only delay the problem until the warranty has expired."
NVidia Forums -
http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t72171.html
Follow-up articles -
http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208802249
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/31/hp-pays-half-nvidia-problems
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/09/nvidia-g84-g86-bad
A year ago NVidia said there were no problems - http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/04/12/there-are-no-mobile-g846-problems
Inviato Fri 01 Aug 08 @ 6:59 am
djderricke
Posted something on this subject in an earlier thread as well.
http://www.virtualdj.com/forums/93682/General_Discussion/Dell_explains_NVIDIA_GPU_issues__throws_out_BIOS_updates_to_help.html?highlight=nvidia
http://www.virtualdj.com/forums/93682/General_Discussion/Dell_explains_NVIDIA_GPU_issues__throws_out_BIOS_updates_to_help.html?highlight=nvidia
Inviato Fri 01 Aug 08 @ 9:03 pm