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Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29

Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29

Posted Apr 26, 2009 11:31 UTC (Sun) by pharm (guest, #22305)
In reply to: Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29 by mrshiny
Parent article: Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29

<i>Note that free drivers ever brick hardware.</i>

Yup: there was a period a while back when the i2c drivers would brick some IBM laptops. Then there was the mess with the Intel network cards...

Hardware isn't perfect, and there's always the risk that you tickle an edge case that does something permanent, even if you're doing things strictly by the book (assuming you have the docs at all).


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