Vista - BFG 7600GTOC

I have been running this card without any issues at all, up until yesterday
that is. I used the driver that Vista had automatically installed, and
recently there was an update to this driver so I installed it. Now it
recognizes it as:

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (Microsoft Corporation WDD...)

And the issue is that the fan on the video card is extremely loud now.
Before if it was under load it would beef up the fans but now it is a
constant. I have only noticed this since do the driver update for the card
and my two ACER AL1916W screens.

Please help I can't sleep!

Get the latest Vista driver released a week or so ago from the NVIDIA
Website. It is probably newer and better then then one from Winupdate
developed by Microsoft.
"Chris Knapp" <ChrisKnapp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5278A169-72A8-4153-B8E9-72A022F4D310@microsoft.com...
>I have been running this card without any issues at all, up until yesterday
> that is. I used the driver that Vista had automatically installed, and
> recently there was an update to this driver so I installed it. Now it
> recognizes it as:
>
> NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (Microsoft Corporation WDD...)
>
> And the issue is that the fan on the video card is extremely loud now.
> Before if it was under load it would beef up the fans but now it is a
> constant. I have only noticed this since do the driver update for the card
> and my two ACER AL1916W screens.
>
> Please help I can't sleep!

Here is my fix. I'm using the 100.65 WHQL 32 driver btw. I have a 7600 GT

Note: Ntune is not a good workaround. 1. It is meant for Nvidia
motherboards. 2. The fan only remains quiet for a given session, a reboot or
putting the system to sleep and re-awakening returns the fan to full speed.
3. Ntune is buggy with Vista.

Open Power Options/Settings and select Power saver as the plan.
Click on Change plan settings for the Power saver.
In the next window select Change advanced power settings
In the Power Options Advance settings scroll down and expand Processor power
management. For both Minimum processor state and Maximum processor state set
both to 100%. Click ok Save changes. Note: It may take a minute or 2 for the
graphics card fan to go off after performing these steps.

This is working flawlessly for me so far. Hope this helps everyone else and
spread the word if it does! I know a lot of people are annoyed by this bug
until a real fix comes from Nvidia.

"Chris Knapp" wrote:

> I have been running this card without any issues at all, up until yesterday
> that is. I used the driver that Vista had automatically installed, and
> recently there was an update to this driver so I installed it. Now it
> recognizes it as:
>
> NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (Microsoft Corporation WDD...)
>
> And the issue is that the fan on the video card is extremely loud now.
> Before if it was under load it would beef up the fans but now it is a
> constant. I have only noticed this since do the driver update for the card
> and my two ACER AL1916W screens.
>
> Please help I can't sleep!