Forged Alliance

My video card fried (a month after Marinas fried, same card, bought at same time), and I don't have the funds to replace it right now, so I have cancelled both of my accounts. I have actually been thinking for awhile that I wanted to take some time off, so this is a good thing. I can honestly look back at my grades from school and tell you which semesters I was raiding lol. I do plan on coming back, but it probably won't be until the end of May. I have really enjoyed running with all of you over the years. I really liked running the 10's with friends. It really meant a lot to me.

See you soon.

Was this the reason


A rather serious bug has been discovered in the recently released Nvidia 196.75 GPU drivers. So serious in fact, that it could cause your graphics card to be permanently damaged. As such, I'll put the warning in bold: downgrade immediately to the 196.21 drivers unless you want your GPU fans to slow to a crawl or stop altogether, causing your shiny, expensive video card to overheat and possibly suffer a permanent hardware failure.

Here's Nvidia's official statement, along with an extra warning from Blizzard:

We are aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues with the latest 196.75 WHQL drivers on NVIDIA.com. Until we can verify and root cause this issue, we recommend that customers stay with, or return to 196.21 WHQL drivers. Release 196.75 drivers have been temporarily removed from our Web site in the meantime.

-Nvidia PR

Hmmm, I hadn't updated my drivers since September probably, and I know I didn't have the new one. Tried to get on Gateway tech support, and apparently they have sold some of their stuff to MPC, who doesn't really exist anymore, so they won't even help me with my computers. Nvidia won't do anything because it was bought in the machine. Lame.