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Laptops With Certain NVidia Chips Failing

Posted by timothy on from the hardware-sucks dept.

Eukariote writes "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."

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  1. Re:Is my macbook faulty? by byrdfl3w · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's nothing.. I heard that Bill Gates regularly attempts to smell out a faulty OS!
    Obviously he sneezed while sniff-testing Vista, covering it with snot and bugs..
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  2. Re:Is my macbook faulty? by ozphx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    After hiring monkey-boy Ballmer, for some strange reason everything he sniffs has an odour of BO.

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