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Apple/NVidia Driver Bug — Question Deleted

Posted by kdawson on from the sup-with-that? dept.

Joe Drago writes "I purchased a Mac Pro within the first week that they were available, and immediately upgraded to 3GB of RAM (knowing that OSX loves memory). When playing 3D games (World of Warcraft mainly), the game would Kernel Panic the machine if I had played it for a few hours, or if I swapped in and out of the game a few times, etc. I eventually found out (from an official Blizzard poster) that NVidia has a bug in their drivers that kernel panics a Mac Pro if any memory past the 2GB boundary is addressed in the driver. After waiting months for a resolution to this, I decided to post on Apple's support site. Here is an image of my post.. Within a few hours, they removed it from the site, placing it under 'Posts Removed by Administration.' What's going on here? Is Apple trying to hide this bug, or is there something more serious going on between Apple and NVidia?"

3 of 703 comments (clear)

  1. Forum rules? by ParraCida · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seems more like a complaint/accusation masked as a question, rather than a serious question and might have been removed for that reason.

  2. A screen grab? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How often do people take screen grabs of their posts to a forum?

    Was their expectation of it being removed? I find that more confusing then the fact that it was deleted.

    1. Re:A screen grab? by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Interesting

      The screen grab wasn't of his original question, but of his question after they deleted all but the subject line.

      It was only after the question was deleted that he began questioning Apple's motives.

      My take on it is that nobody would buy a 3-gig box if they can't properly use the extra gig of ram, and this could hurt sales, as well as give people justification for post-xmas returns (and then buying the 2-gig machine at a post-xmas price).