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Nvidia To Recall Every 8800 GTX/GTS Card

Posted by Zonk on Sun Apr 01, 2007 02:43 AM
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Bill Stubbs writes "NVIDIA has admitted to a killer bug in all GeForce 8800GTX/GTS cards, and will recall all affected cards and replace them. 'An NVIDIA engineer, who wishes to remain anonymous, has just clued us in on the whole deal. This engineer claims that while allegations of poor gaming performance are correct, the reason is not really poor drivers. Brace yourself for the truth: Right after the G80 was taped out, NVIDIA discovered a bug in the vertex shader that causes the GPU to generate slightly incorrect geometry transformation data. The difference was minimal enough to escape attention but it was significant enough to render a scene incorrectly.' The article also links to a secret website which will allow gamers to purchase Nvidia cards at cost."
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  • *whew* (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2007, @02:44AM (#18564619)
    Well, at least I won't have to worry about that problem because I have my awesome Radeon 9200 32MB. Thanks, Apple!

  • Here we go... (Score:3, Informative)

    by StarvingSE (875139) on Sunday April 01 2007, @02:45AM (#18564627)
    Happy April 1st everyone.... fp
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      I saw those things and I thought to myself

  • Whoa (Score:5, Insightful)

    by The Bungi (221687) <thebungi@gmail.com> on Sunday April 01 2007, @02:49AM (#18564653) Homepage
    I know this is April Fool's and all, and it looks like this year we were spared the pink ponies, but isn't this a tad close to starting a harmful rumor? People are stupid, and nVidia is a publicly traded company. I think there's enough crap to make fun of without having to resort to this type of thing? Just IMO.
    • There are more earthshaking News around. Se there http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/87582 [heise.de] (german). The Mozilla Foundation wants 1.4 Billion US$ from Microsoft because of a patent registered in 1922. :-D
    • Actually, according to Google this is authentic news [google.com.au]
      • the first article pointing back to here :D

        • Actually, there isn't anything at that link but a link back to this story.

          Well, not yet. Wait until the echo chamber that is the Internet gets into full swing...

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by suv4x4 (956391)
      I know this is April Fool's and all, and it looks like this year we were spared the pink ponies, but isn't this a tad close to starting a harmful rumor? People are stupid, and nVidia is a publicly traded company. I think there's enough crap to make fun of without having to resort to this type of thing? Just IMO.

      You know, expecting real news on a news site doesn't make you stupid.

      What makes you stupid is posting lies on your news site just because it's "April's Fool's day" or something of that sort.

      And what

      • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

        by alfrin (858861)
        What makes you stupid is posting lies on your news site just because it's "April's Fool's day" or something of that sort.

        Last time I checked the whole April Fools articles has been a tradition here on Slashdot and most members here are well aware of it and, dare I saw, enjoy trying to sort out the real articles from the fakes. Do you expect the complete truth out of the news anyways? Or on an internet news site?

        Chill out
        • ... most members here are well aware of it and, dare I saw ...

          someone's confusing April's fools day with Halloween here.

      • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

        by kjart (941720)

        You know, expecting real news on a news site doesn't make you stupid.

        No, but not understanding it's a joke does make you stupid. Sorry.

        What makes you stupid is posting lies on your news site just because it's "April's Fool's day" or something of that sort.

        I know, something untrue on the internet - frankly, I'm shocked.

          • If all our news sources were like that, then real news would be taken for a joke and people would be oblivious that they REALLY bought a deffective Nvidia.

            Today I read an article about a machine installed at an airport for automatically declaring and paying customs, so one doesn't have to deal with pesky uniformed personnel. It was demonstrated by our Minister of Finance. I think this is the year's April Fool's joke.

            In the 70's, NRK (Norwegian equivalent of Auntie Beeb) broadcast a story saying that the "Wi

      • Here's the actual admission that this is a April Fool's Joke

        The actual "secret page" [techarp.com]


        One Last Question...

        Congratulations! If you made it this far, we are pretty sure you are NOT an NVIDIA lawyer, or from ATI. Have a beer on us.

        We have just one more question for you... Do you know what day it is today?

        Yes, my friend, it's April 1st. Adrian's uncle was born on this day, but it's really more commonly known as April Fool's Day.

        Unfortunately, there is no secret page where you can buy cheap NVIDIA cards. How we wi
        • Never watch The Simpsons with suv4x4. Instead of enjoying a good show, suv4x4 will complain about Bart Simpson still looking 10 years old, even though he should be about 30 years old by now (debut on Tracy Ullman show in 1987).

          I wonder how many more years it'll take YOU to grow older than 10 year old. The Simpsons isn't aired during CNN Breaking News report, there's no deception.

          But explaining the difference to a 10 year old is tough.

    • I know this is April Fool's and all, and it looks like this year we were spared the pink ponies, but isn't this a tad close to starting a harmful rumor? People are stupid, and nVidia is a publicly traded company. I think there's enough crap to make fun of without having to resort to this type of thing? Just IMO.
      I totally agree with you!!!

      The absolute worst April Fools jokes are the ones that ACTUALLY FOOL PEOPLE!
    • Investors should take a break on April 1st, and it's Sunday anyway. All effects to the stock of a company, if any, should be short lived as "sly" investors would rush back upon realisation of the joke hoping to benefit from the dip in price. Result is that the price would shoot back up, maybe even landing a coupla feet further than it was in the first place. Clowns.

  • 0104.htm (Score:2, Informative)

    by FMota91 (1050752)
    Nice way for http://www.techarp.com/ [techarp.com] to try and sell us their products...

  • April Fool's Day (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Renraku (518261) on Sunday April 01 2007, @02:56AM (#18564705) Homepage
    Just an excuse to be a lying asshole and get away with it. Much like alcohol, or drugs.
    • Much like alcohol, or drugs.

      So, in other words, you mean "awesome"?

    • "Just an excuse to be a lying asshole and get away with it. Much like alcohol, or drugs."

      But without the hang over, or jail time!

      Thank you Slashdot for providing a safe and effective fix!

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by DaFallus (805248)
      Just an excuse to be a lying asshole and get away with it. Much like alcohol, or drugs.

      Not having a sense of humor; just an excuse to be an asshole and get away with it. Much like alcohol, or drugs. Get over yourself.

  • Mod me insightful for no particular reason (Score:4, Insightful)

    by aussie_a (778472) on Sunday April 01 2007, @02:57AM (#18564711) Journal
    Come on. Come oooooon.
  • I give this story a Slashdottit rating of + Eleventy One

    Glad I don't own an NVidia anymore too ;-)
  • This could really boost the NVIDIA Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) [nvidia.com] hence number crunching projects like the Netflix Prize, which needs a second wind right about now due to a slowdown of progress in recent weeks [netflixprize.com]. This depends, of course, on the detected error not being critical to the programs compiled for the 8800 hardware by CUDA, and on NVIDIA making the returned 8800s available for CUDA programmers.
  • Articles like these are why I'll once again be staying away from the internet on April Fools Day.

    -signing off until 0001, 04-02-07

  • Fucking stupid (Score:3, Insightful)

    by d_jedi (773213) on Sunday April 01 2007, @03:03AM (#18564755)
    nt.
  • If you RTFA you'll notice they tell you about a secret page you can reach by answering a quiz. Here's the link: http://www.techarp.com/0104.htm [techarp.com] Quote from it: "Unfortunately, there is no secret page where you can buy cheap NVIDIA cards. How we wish it were true though. Graphics cards are so very expensive."

  • stupid tags (Score:4, Insightful)

    by OrangeTide (124937) on Sunday April 01 2007, @03:35AM (#18564913) Homepage Journal
    I think I would enjoy the prank more if it didn't say aprilfools right on the slashdot tagging.

    • I think I would enjoy the prank more if it didn't say aprilfools right on the slashdot tagging.

      My sincere apologies...

      Would "omgponies" be more to your liking?
  • ... Happy lawsuit!
  • I was hoping Slashdot wouldn't participate this year, but ... Ugh.
  • ...Except the killer bug is called "Vista".

  • This is a good step, but support from nVidia in the past has been poor. I bought an nVidia 5700 two years ago and the driver hangs. This is known popularly as the "nv4_disp infinite loop bug". Searched on Google and many others have had the same problem. But you can't get anything done about it, and it affects the 6xxx and 7xxx series cards too.

    nVidia tell you to technical support requests must go to the OEM card maker. But all the OEM card maker does is slap chips on a board. They don't know about the inne

  • I just submitted mine! (Score:4, Funny)

    by tacokill (531275) on Sunday April 01 2007, @07:46AM (#18565971)
    I just submitted my card for return.

    I hope it comes back with a new pony. OMG Poni3Z!!!!!!
  • No drivers since Jan 10....

    fuckers. I knew it :)
  • ... only an insightful mod of +1 is keeping the corpse alive. An funny mod of +2 is keeping me from going zombie on the mother-fucking slashdot editors, although if I see some flame-bait out there ...
  • I have an XFX 8800GTX and ever since I installed that sucker, I've been getting BSODs out the arse. I've already had it replaced once; no dice. I've tried all the latest drivers; no dice. I've updated the BIOS, uninstalled and reinstalled the sound card, performed voodoo magic; no dice. Something is surely messed up here. My power supply is 620W and definitely enough to handle the card. I really don't understand what the hell is going on, but it's seriously unacceptable.

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