Graphic Card Problem May Affect Millions of Computers

JRViejo · Aug 11, 2008

While Nvidia has admitted that these graphics boards are failing at higher than normal rates, the company has not acted to rectify the problem. Instead of recalling the GeForce 8M Series GPUs at Nvidia’s expense, Nvidia has thus far been content to sit and wait while the products keep failing.

While this may make business sense for Nvidia, it exposes millions of consumers to the possibility that their computer graphic display will fail without warning — possibly just as they're starting a critically important business presentation or rushing to complete a complex assignment...

As for symptoms, laptop users have indicated that the problem typically manifests itself by the video screen on the computer either being unable to display anything — or displaying a number of colored lines across the screen.
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Consumer Affairs Article

Searching_ _ _ · Aug 18, 2008

I thought I would add a little more info about what Laptops are affected.

The new GeForce 8M Series notebook GPUs—the world’s first to support DirectX 10 and fully accelerate decoding of H.264 full HD movies—are available now from the top PC makers such as HP, Toshiba, Acer, Alienware, Samsung, Dell and ASUS.

8M GPU models:
GeForce 8800M
GeForce 8700M
GeForce 8600M
GeForce 8400M

Initially available in the GeForce 8600M and GeForce 8400M versions, the new GPUs make ultra-realistic DirectX10 3D games and vivid HD video playback on notebook PCs

http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_42279.html

Their website no longer maintains a complete list of 8M in what laptops.
They are now marketing 9M series GPU's.

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