I have an 8 year old Dimond viper 770 (TNT2), a two year old HP with a 6150 IGP chip set in it, and a 8 month old Dell Vostro with a 8600GT in it... and ALL of them still work.

Now, I would not go so far as to say that Nvidia does not have a problem with the mobile G84 and G86 chips, but Nvidia last gens's IGP chip set?, this chipset is what? four years old? and Cyril wants to draw a conclusion based on HP's idea to extend one year warantee to two years? You did not even get a statement from HP!

Cyril If you want Nvidia to take you seriously and provide striaight answers to you then you should just link Inquirer stories on short bread instead of commenting with a paragraph of your own nonsense.

A friend and I both have HP DV2100 laptops with GO7200 Nvidia chips. Both have failed. Won't boot, give One long, two short beeps which means Video chip failure. HP won't support those models and want's $400 for repairs.

Best to just avoid anything with Nvidia chip in it until further notice as I have no idea how many defective chips are left in the supply chain.

This problem does not seem to be isolated to HP desktops. I service computers all night and day long, and lately, I've seen this problem coming up on Dells and Gateways as well. The problem seems to surround the MCP51 and MCP61 series chipsets, easily identified as GeForce 6100/6150 LE/SE graphics controller. It doesn't seem to be related to any dedicated graphics solutions (actual graphics cards). To the posters that are worried that their new 8xxx, 9xxx, or 2xx series nVidia cards, it's not related, but given what's been going on with nVidia lately, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of those going bad, either.
The faulty chipsets seem to be affecting graphics, network, USB connectivity, and SATA drives, both optical and hard variety.

Well, I wouldn't say that my 9600GT is dying, but i have speculated that nv4_disp would be stuck in a "deadly" loop sometimes, resulting in BSOD. Strangely, this happens during video playback or gaming. Previously, i thought that it was my Leadtek TV card, it uses some sort of MPEG2 smoothing engine and 9600GT is also involved in video playback. I have uninstalled the TV card, but the problem stays and ruins my online UT3 matches sometimes..

I thinking thats why my girlfriends Gateway died with no video and no post.

Im pretty sure it's the 6150 chipset theyre naming here, but ive already chucked the motherboard and used the rest of the components for upgrading other peoples computers. Her memory, harddrive, and cpu all are fine.

Wish i could be 100% sure instead of 90% it was the 6150 chipset.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/230097/has-nvidia-problem-hit-hp-deskto...
confirmed Nvidia at fault.

#16...Sorry to burst your bubble, but the 'NVLDDMKM' error started the day Vista was released. I had a copy of Vista Ultimate and an 8800GT and I would get constant crashes, sometimes making the system almost unusable...

Finally 12/2007 NV released a driver that FINALLY made the problem go away. 100%. Before driver constant problems, after driver 0 problems.

Not every system, even with practically identical specs, was effected. There were 'fixes' all over the place, undervolting, underclocking, etc. I read 200 pages of the NZone web site desperately looking for something over the period of 2 weeks. Every 'fix' that I read (over 200 pages worth) got re-posted with 'sorry...that didn't actually work' comment.

It was just NV consistently released drivers for almost a year that DID not fix the problem. I still have my 8800GT and it is a fine card (now). I game relentlessly and really do like it and it is stout...let's assign credit/blame where it is due.

#38...Dang, you're 100% right. It was a 7600GS. Faulty memory - my own.

#48...Fair enough. Previously it was limited to immature Nvidia Vista drivers. Hope you get to the bottom of it.

You people, or at least your French employee, are becoming as credible as Tom's Hardware became. This is obscene and pathetic. Where the hell is the owner/editor?

I have the GeForce 6150 chipset, and its working fine for my nettop...

So no idea of how many even had a problem with the Motherboard. No mention of what the problem was or even if it involved a NVIDIA GPU.

Next the Inq will step in poop and say that all shoes have poop on them.

Using the Inq for news is like using a screen door on a submarine.

I also heared this on Fudzilla that desktop model GPU/IGP is not far from affected by these problem since they undergo same process but unlike mobile versions the desktop is well cooled. But somehow the problem was there, sooner or later it will trigger. Too bad I had nvidia IGP mobo, but well I gonna buy ATI VC external for this.

The story here for me is that the failing parts are GeForce 6150 LE. Those are not G86 nor even G84.

HELL, THEY'RE NOT EVEN THE SAME PRODUCT GENERATION!!!

Nvidia needs disclosure on this. If it turns out that every one of their products over the last X years is affected, that's both damning (LOTS of potentially bad parts) and reassuring (took this long for anyone to notice).

I'm just thinking back to an AGP 6800Ultra that went black one day without any preceeding problems, a PCIe 6800GT that went black screen one day, a PCIe 6800Ultra that just went black, a PCIe 7800GTX that suddenly died for no reason... The 7950GX2s both lasted to a normal retirement and seem to be OK. My 8800GT has been really solid and issue-free. Maybe NV straightened it out already.

Normally I would dismiss all of this and think no more of it, but if a 6150LE can be affected....

Also, there's an 8600GT in a friend of mine's system that I gave him. It's been acting up more and more lately, at first I thought it was nothing, or airflow, or his PSU, but now we've checked all those and it still crashes to a black screen occasionally. I think maybe he's got an RMA in his future.

Jesus, i just sold a 6150LE mobo to my friend a month ago :(

This seems to be a completely unrelated problem (if there is a problem), so I don't think it's right to link this to the known problem with some laptop chips.

Still, the fanboys come out of the woodwork, as they did with the poll.

Nothing to see here, move along...

I went to look at HP's website, and I don't think I'm ready to start calling in the shenannigans.

The latest slimline from HP (not on the affected systems list):
http://www.shopping.hp.com/series/category/desktops/s3600z_series/3...

It's plainly a micro or mini system, which will be using the same exact parts as the notebooks. It's also in a heat-sensitive situation, given the thermals that typically occur in tiny cases like that.

I'm not being an Nvidia apologist, here. It's still bad parts they're shipping, but I think that Nvidia's probably right about what types of systems this will affect.

some sites started spreading rumors
So there were other sites besides The Inquirer? If so, who?

If nVidia is withholding this information from investors, won't they get into serious trouble with the SEC? Seems to me they'd have to be really dumb to try to hide it.

my brother has a 7600 gs, that he thought was starting to go bad.
It made everything on the screen fuzzy/static.
He stopped leaving his pc on overnight, and it cleared up though.

Looks like we found the tie-breaker on the ATI / nVidia debate! Nothing to separate them, I think not?

I bought an HP de-branded PC from CompGeeks for my Father-in-law a few months back and it had the 6150LE video chipset, which was a step up from his old setup, but I was surprised to find a graphical glitch in that every now and then it wouldn't display video.
I do hope I don't have to deal with that PC anytime soon, but odds are now slightly against me after reading this one.