HP reports failed NVIDIA GPUs in desktops

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited October 2008 in Science & Tech
In an unsurprising continuation of NVIDIA's bad GPU drama Hewlett-Packard is reporting that select slimline desktops are suffering an aberrant amount of failed GPUs. Often more mobile than desktop, these slimlines are believed to employ the ill-fated G84M and G86M chips for which NVIDIA has set aside nearly $200 million to cover the cost of failures.

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  • ArtemisArtemis New
    edited October 2008
    Thrax wrote:
    In an unsurprising continuation of NVIDIA's bad GPU drama Hewlett-Packard is reporting that select slimline desktops are suffering an aberrant amount of failed GPUs. Often more mobile than desktop, these slimlines are believed to employ the ill-fated G84M and G86M chips for which NVIDIA has set aside nearly $200 million to cover the cost of failures.

    To combat the increased failure rate, H... Continue reading


    Crud, does this problem also go with HP laptops? It says "slimline desktops" but the site that the person below posted mentioned that the affected cards are in HP laptops as well.

    I have a Pavilion with a GeForce 84M card. Oh man, I really don't want to have my laptop affected! *knocks on wood*
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    All GeForce 8400M and GeForce 8600M chips are bad. Their failure is a matter of when, not if.

    //edit: doh.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    While we're on the defective GPU topics: Is there any other investigative reporting of the extent that The Inquirer has provided? Also, The Inq maintains that the defective GPUs include G92. Is there definitive information out on all this yet?
  • ArtemisArtemis New
    edited October 2008
    Damn, and there isn't even an official recall yet?
    So now it's basically like "sit tight and hope your laptop doesn't fry?"

    I never should have gotten the high-end graphics card with my laptop...
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    In cases such as this where multiple vendors (HP, Apple, Dell are the big ones thus far) are effected, it is up to the vendor to decide how to deal with it. Dell released some new BIOS to combat the thermal fluctuations that jumpstart failures. Apple is offering free replacements, and HP is doing the warranty thing.

    You'll just have to contact HP and see what they say.

    @Leonardo:

    As of yet, the G92 brouhaha remains unsubstantiated, but we all know Inq's penchant for being correct when everyone else says that they're not. To date, they're still the biggest source of information in this ongoing crap.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    Dell released some new BIOS to combat the thermal fluctuations that jumpstart failures.
    Yeah, the BIOS "solution" just runs the CPU cooling fan at higher RPMs. Oh the joy of a noisy laptop!
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