Nvidia Drivers Beware!

[John P. Myers]

Do not use Nvidia's newer drivers 364.47 and 364.51. They are causing all kinds of problems, including burnt up GPUs.


Blue screens, failing to boot up Windows, restart loops, losing sound, graphical artifacting and even burned out cards are all problems which are being reported by users on various sites. It doesn’t seem to be specific to one brand or generation of card, either.


my TITANX went to bulescreen after update 362 to 364.47


Disaster struck... I chose to update to these drivers and went to bed. I woke up to the smell of something burning. My computer is toast... it must have been restarting continuously for over 8 hours. Damn... turns out the power supply gave up and luckily not the GPU which is a 980 Ti.


killed my GTX 780, don't download this crap.

[FourOh]

Thanks for the heads-up! Just checked and all mine are 362.00 or below. I won't update any time soon!

[Dave gpu]

Thanks for the info#:-s

[Fire$torm]

WoW, that sucks. AMD must me rofltao....

[Ron Shurtz]

Really appreciate the warning. :eek:

I was ready to upgrade from 362.00 to 364.47 on two machines.

[nanoprobe]

Thanks for the heads up. I've always stayed 1 update behind after the 295 driver fiasco Nvidia had a while back. Can they be held responsible for damaged hardware?

[Dave gpu]

http://www.maximumpc.com/nvidia-yanks-problematic-geforce-36447-driver-update/

[Shandia]

Well, this is good info to know. I updated to 362.xx a few days ago and had a few strange issues. Not logging in to a few apps and apps freezing. It did remind me of a known but ignored bug involving the amd HD series a few years ago. Guess I should consider clearing my cache out and uninstalling/re-installing the nvidia card to see if it helps with my issues that have popped up since upgrading. When they do an update so close to a previous one, they really are trying to fix an issue and not just tweak performance for a game. Sometimes, yeah, things get worse before they get better. My 9500gt was a victim to one of these fixes years ago. Even though it's not in a computer, it still works kind of. (the fix would cause the fan to shut off under heavy load) Some things never change.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thanks John for the info. I wonder if my problem is related to this issue. I had a machine that went down and would not start, no sign of life. It had a new GTX 960 that I installed a day before that and I used the latest drivers. Anyhow, Since I wanted to upgrade my PSU from 800 to 1000W to serve my purpose (even though the old 800 was working OK according to the PSU tester) this was the time to buy one. Since I could not test anything else, I purchased a new motherboard as well. The combination worked straight away for less than a day for when I got up the rig was down and has the same symptoms of Dead as a door-nail or simply put DED. I had no chance to investigate it yet.

[Shandia]

Ok. Yes, the even more recently drivers, not just the ones listed here are bad. I attempted to clean my cache with windows disk cleanup......locked up half way through. Checked the apps that wouldn't work right......still messed up. Uninstalled 362.xx drivers......rebooted......installed 361.xx from Dec.....CCleaner automatically popped up telling me to do some cleaning. I let it go and do what it wanted.......rebooted after cleaning and install of old drivers.....and viola! Everything works like it's suppose to. Never underestimate the power of the GPU drivers to totally mess up your day. I will add.....the nvidia card is NOT my primary GPU in this case so......

[dcushing]

WoW, that sucks. AMD must me rofltao....

The latest ati driver sucks too.. just tried it...
The programmers must be having brain farts!

Went back to 15-7

[John P. Myers]

Avoid 364.72 as well. More issues surfacing with this driver.

[Shandia]

Avoid 364.72 as well. More issues surfacing with this driver.

You should have spoken up before I installed a 460gtx in Bipolar a few hours ago. Got the luck of the draw I guess. So far, no issues to report even OC'd to 725MHz core and 1800MHz memory.

[Shandia]

Scratch that about the newest drivers. I've had TWO systems upchuck in the last day or so. One finally just tossed the driver and refused to see the card in....um.....an app I'm running. The other one is red lining at stock clock. Replaced the replacement fan and re-did the thermal paste. Didn't do any good what so ever. I'm waiting for the third system to come unglued now. The fan already has two broken blades so I know it's coming. I'll probably do it here in a few minutes since both the first two developed problems within the same run time frame. The third has another 3 days to hit the 'I'm fucked' wall. If anyone needs the drivers from Dec that are perfectly good, let me know.

EDIT -- The one that was red lining......how can have two fans go out and not work? It's not the fan controller. Both fans are locked up tight. What did I do? I swapped that one for the one with the broken blades.. It was in a case so my fix wouldn't work/had no air flow. The one where the fanss were bad, I used my last new r-box fan, hot glued it to the front, installed it on the caseless mobo and......full load.......it gets to 58*C. Not too shabby! It's ready for some serious crunching. That is when I swap out the ssd with a hdd. I have no room on the 32GB ssd for Boinc or any apps. lol All computers are doing much better with the drivers from Dec. Oh yeah, when I tested full load, they were OC'd to 850MHz. These are 460's and stock is 625MHz.

[Dave gpu]

Author Jacob Klein GPUGRD.net

I have confirmed that the new DOOM 365.19 drivers do NOT fix the PrimeGrid OpenCL/CUDA miscalculations. They DO fix the POEM@Home OpenCL TDR/Crash problems.

I'd recommend users to stick with 362.00, and projects to take action to prevent issuing CUDA or OpenCL tasks to R364 users.

Note:
For both of these issues, I am the main user working with NVIDIA to solve them. And I'm told from my NVIDIA contacts that we can expect the miscalculation fix to land in the next driver, due later this month. So, maybe THEN I can finally upgrade to R364 :)