Nvidia Hit With Securities Lawsuit Over Bad Graphics Chips

Nvidia Hit With Securities Lawsuit Over Bad Graphics Chips

Daniel Fleshbourne on 10 September 2008 - 11:18 · 21 comments & 6260 views

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A lawsuit filed in a California court on Tuesday alleged Nvidia violated U.S. securities laws and concealed the existence of a serious defect in its graphics-chip line for at least eight months "in a series of false and misleading statements made to the investing public."

The lawsuit charged that Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and CFO Marvin Burkett knew as early as November 2007 about a flaw that exists in the packaging used with some of the company's graphics chips that caused them to fail at unusually high rates.

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(11 replies) #1 mel00 on 10 Sep 2008 - 13:57

HAHAHAHAHA
Once I was a NVIDIA fan... Now they can rotten in hell.

#1.1 C_Guy on 10 Sep 2008 - 14:22

"rotten in hell"??? HHmmm that's an interesting collection of words.

Anyway it would be worse. You could be an ATI fan

#1.2 ir0nw0lf on 10 Sep 2008 - 14:56

(mel00 said @ #1)

HAHAHAHAHA
Once I was a NVIDIA fan... Now they can rotten in hell.

This could have just as easily have happened to AMD/ATI and then you would probably be ditzin' them too huh? Nvidia still makes great products, but I do have to admit that Nvidia really screwed the pooch over this GPU fiasco and given that this is good ole America, the lawsuit was inevitable, sad to say.

#1.3 rm20010 on 10 Sep 2008 - 15:07

This isn't so funny when you own said chips that have failed at least once

#1.4 +warwagon on 10 Sep 2008 - 16:29

I agree. The whole Nforce 3 vista thing made me never want to buy another nvidia product.

#1.5 nmesisca on 10 Sep 2008 - 19:11

(warwagon said @ #1.4)

I agree. The whole Nforce 3 vista thing made me never want to buy another nvidia product.

+1 billion

#1.6 Typhon on 10 Sep 2008 - 20:03

(warwagon said @ #1.4)

I agree. The whole Nforce 3 vista thing made me never want to buy another nvidia product.

Nforce 3 is old. Why would you want to run Vista on a N3?

#1.7 nekrosoft13 on 10 Sep 2008 - 20:42

(mel00 said @ #1)

HAHAHAHAHA
Once I was a NVIDIA fan... Now they can rotten in hell.

if you really think that you are an idiot. both companies need each other. there was to be competition, other wise we all are in trouble

#1.8 +warwagon on 10 Sep 2008 - 20:55

(Typhon said @ #1.6)

(warwagon said @ #1.4)

I agree. The whole Nforce 3 vista thing made me never want to buy another nvidia product.

Nforce 3 is old. Why would you want to run Vista on a N3?

Gee lets see

AMD X2 4200
2 gigs of ram
350 gig sata hard drive
ATI x850

why wouldn't I want to run vista on it?

#1.9 39 Thieves on 11 Sep 2008 - 03:49

(warwagon said @ #1.

(Typhon said @ #1.6)

(warwagon said @ #1.4)

I agree. The whole Nforce 3 vista thing made me never want to buy another nvidia product.

Nforce 3 is old. Why would you want to run Vista on a N3?

Gee lets see

AMD X2 4200
2 gigs of ram
350 gig sata hard drive
ATI x850

why wouldn't I want to run vista on it?

Beeecause...that's a crap system?

#1.10 +warwagon on 11 Sep 2008 - 04:34

(39 Thieves said @ #1.9)

(warwagon said @ #1.

(Typhon said @ #1.6)

(warwagon said @ #1.4)

I agree. The whole Nforce 3 vista thing made me never want to buy another nvidia product.

Nforce 3 is old. Why would you want to run Vista on a N3?

Gee lets see

AMD X2 4200
2 gigs of ram
350 gig sata hard drive
ATI x850

why wouldn't I want to run vista on it?

Beeecause...that's a crap system?

hahaha.... Your funny!

#1.11 basix on 11 Sep 2008 - 20:12

(warwagon said @ #1.4)

I agree. The whole Nforce 3 vista thing made me never want to buy another nvidia product.

Seconded! We're still not talking....

"Nforce 3 is old. Why would you want to run Vista on a N3? "

Maybe when we beta tested LONGHORN in what, when was it? 2004 an NF3 was mainstream and NVIDIA screwed all of us NF3 users over by not supporting the platform. Albeit ATI screwed me as well without AIW support for my 9600xt which wasnt exactly old tech either. i got hit by both sticks : (
But they suffer in the end because I havn't upgraded either card or chipset (or OS for that matter).

Last edited by basix on 11 Sep 2008 - 20:23

#2 Mike Frett on 10 Sep 2008 - 15:24

Geforce 8 series?. Did they ever fix that issue, because I have an 8600 GT card I bought recently. In any case, I haven't had any problems from mine.

#3 IntelliMoo on 10 Sep 2008 - 18:31

700 i series chipset must have even worse package flaws.

#4 Skynetfuture on 10 Sep 2008 - 23:33

i had NF4 mainboard on my family home

it run fine with amd cpu

but i will never buy NF boards for intel system ever , they are crap compared to intel chipsets

(1 reply) #5 ChrisJ1968 on 10 Sep 2008 - 23:36

this place is just like a soap opera.

Intel fan bois hate AMD Fan bois

ATI fan bois hate Nvidia fan bois...

I love this place. it's NEVER a dull moment!

#5.1 Skynetfuture on 10 Sep 2008 - 23:45

i am nV fan but i am very abset/angry about what happen recently

if they release more crap gpu i am going to dump them , my next gpu will be readon 4870 or 5870 x2 if they release it soon

#6 mrp04 on 11 Sep 2008 - 00:05

I like nVidia, but I own an 8400M GS in my XPS M1330 which has failed. It was replaced, but I don't know if the new one is defective or not.

(1 reply) #7 doom71 on 11 Sep 2008 - 01:47

I've preferred ATI for the last 8 or so. The wife bought me a desktop replacement (because of a house move some years back) and it came with a Geforce go 6800 and I must say Nvidias drivers are crap. Just to prove a point try games like Alice or the original Soul reaver on both nvidias and ati's drivers and see what comes out best. Alice on the nvidia one cant run with vsink on (even if you enable it in in the control panel) but it does with atis drivers. Soul reaver just wont run at all on Nvidia (unless you you downgrade to the early 70 drivers). Also I have friends that have had nvidia cards fail on them but not one has has an ati fail. I'm stuck with nvidia just now but when I build the new desktop I've been saving for I'm not letting Nvidia near it.

#7.1 Skynetfuture on 12 Sep 2008 - 15:23

I've preferred ATI for the last 8 or so. The wife bought me a desktop replacement (because of a house move some years back) and it came with a Geforce go 6800 and I must say Nvidias drivers are crap. Just to prove a point try games like Alice or the original Soul reaver on both nvidias and ati's drivers and see what comes out best. Alice on the nvidia one cant run with vsync on (even if you enable it in in the control panel) but it does with atis drivers. Soul reaver just wont run at all on Nvidia (unless you you downgrade to the early 70 drivers). Also I have friends that have had nvidia cards fail on them but not one has has an ati fail. I'm stuck with nvidia just now but when I build the new desktop I've been saving for I'm not letting Nvidia near it.

#8 Airlink on 11 Sep 2008 - 09:20

Hey, Investors: Here's an idea for you: If you can't keep up on the latest issues related to the company you want to invest in, then DON'T INVEST IN THEM! What, you expect them to spoon-feed you every little piece of technical news on a silver spoon that's been stamped with FTC's seal of approval? The issue people are now suing nVidia over was not a secret. Every IT on the planet knew about it as it was developing. God-dam lazy-assed investors.... :grumble: :grumble:

:grumblecakes:

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