Nvidia chip problem

[Swatje]

I'm starting to have black-out issues. No idea if it's related though. My gpu goes through intense heat cycles so I would bet my money on it. Please respond zepto!

[John Ratsey]

Have a look at this page relating to Dell. Do you have any of those symptoms?

The Inquirer is sticking to its view that all the G84 and G86 series are affected by the potential problem.

John

[t3K|Mac]

uuh its getting worse and worse...

[Swatje]

Have a look at this page relating to Dell. Do you have any of those symptoms?

The Inquirer is sticking to its view that all the G84 and G86 series are affected by the potential problem.

John

Just the no-video one.

Btw, all those laptops listed have G84M en G86M gpu's, even some quaddro's in the bunch, loads of diff models, but same GPU's... This has GOTTA be GPU issue, and unless the materials of the GPU core delivered to Dell were any different than Zepto's, we're probably screwed too.

[CreX]

"Investigation" my . It's always like this. The problem is SO huge that they simple seems to overlook it. Just think of how much money they would lose due to warranty!!! In my eyes it seems like the don't even dare to see the problem properly, as it would be a crash in their business. People would simply go nuts if they announce something like this, and start to demand their money back etc.

Well, for me and everyone else on this forums.. I HOPE this happens.

(btw, I'm talking about nVIDIA here)

The SAD thing is... what ever happens. In my case, my self and Zepto will be the one suffering in the end. I can't play games and Zepto won't ever sell anything to me again. What I mean is that if someone have experienced problems with a product of a specific brand, this someone rarely purchase a new product from the same brand ever again.

[John Ratsey]

Zepto will be expecting to pass the cost of replacing GPUs that fail during service back to nVidia, who have already made a provision of up to US$200M against this GPU problem. However, shipping and labour costs will be at least $100 per time, so excluding replacement parts they have allowed for replacement of 1M to 2M GPUs. I'm sure they sold a lot more than that.

John

[Swatje]

Zepto will be expecting to pass the cost of replacing GPUs that fail during service back to nVidia, who have already made a provision of up to US$200M against this GPU problem. However, shipping and labour costs will be at least $100 per time, so excluding replacement parts they have allowed for replacement of 1M to 2M GPUs. I'm sure they sold a lot more than that.

John

Judging by sale figures, I think between 10 and 20 million units would be fair. So at average, about 13 bucks a laptop . If they're lucky only 10 million due to warranty expirations i think they'll be looking at a piggy bank of at least a billion. This will be about half last years revenue... Not to mention their wallstreet losses. A grim year ahead for nVidia.

[mufflan]

The Inquirer have posted a "update" to this issue that concerns that it seems G92 and G94 cores are defective like the G8x are.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...g94-reportedly

This is bad, I don't want my laptop to die, I know it'll probably will as I can't even name the last time it was shutdown, and I use quite a bit of heavy graphics and have done so for a year.

[John Ratsey]

Thermal cycling seems to be an factor. Maybe keeping the computer running reduces that.

The Inquirer is definitely painting a gloomy picture and the lack of real substance in the info coming from nVidia is disturbing.

John

[Swatje]

Nvidia just announced first loss in several years. Mainly because of the set-aside fund of money for recalls.

They wouldn't have done this if it wasn't serious. Now that the financial quartal reports are over, we might expect some words.