Nvidia Problems Hit HP Desktops

Barence writes "HP has revealed faults with 38 different models in its slimline PC range, sparking speculation that Nvidia's faulty GPU problems have spread beyond laptops. HP's official statement says the problems are 'attributable to the computer's motherboard" and that affected machines 'may not boot or may not display video' — the same kind of terminology used to describe the previous faults with laptop GPUs. Both HP and Nvidia have declined to comment. But in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this year, Nvidia admitted 'there can be no assurance that we will not discover defects in other MCP or GPU products.'" Note: the linked story (updated since this submission) says that Yes, the problems are now confirmed to be rooted in the Nvidia GPUs.

AMD/ATI?

[sanosuke001]

This is a great chance for ATI to get some market-share. If you don't know what nVidia cards are affected, are you going to chance it? I know I wouldn't. If ATI doesn't take advantage of this with price drops or something, their marketing dept. should be taken out back and finished off of-mice-and-men style...

Re:AMD/ATI?

[kazade84]

This gives me another reason to recommend AMD/ATI over nVidia. The first one being that nVidia refuses to release their card specs, unlike AMD and Intel.

more importantly (for me, at least)...

[Anonymous Coward]

has Nvidia fixed their problems for their current products? i bought a dell laptop with intel graphics specifically because of these problems (too late to change that, obviously). my son wants/needs a new graphics card for his desktop; i strongly recommended against Nvidia but i wonder if they'll have it fixed by Christmas when i plan on getting a new card for him; hopefully it'll be an historical footnote long before then but i haven't seen anything indicating they've fixed their problems and their products are now safe to buy. any articles/links that can verify one way or the other?