A huge Defect issue that’s not being reported anywhere else except the Inquirer.net
Thursday, July 31st, 2008HP pays half for Nvidia’s graphic problems - The INQUIRER
Nvidia is not talking about this and it’s being swept under the rug. The “fix” is to turn on the fans all the time which keeps the video chip cool and kills your battery. the issue is the chip overheats and basically warps it’s packaging and then effectively shorts out. Dell’s Statement is here. Basically until this clears up steer clear of Nvidia graphics chips period for now.
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*update* HP is removing old bios versions so that users who find that the “fix” runs the fans at full bore and destroys their battery life are not able to go back to a bios version that makes the laptop run correctly.