March 7, 2010
04:34
This week NVIDIA had to pull its latest WHQL-certified graphics drivers on Windows due to a bug that would cause the fan controller to not respond correctly to the current conditions of the GPU workload and in some cases would even turn the GPU's fan off. This bug could potentially kill the NVIDIA graphics card due to overheating...


Author: Phoronix 
Comment by DDevine on 8 Mar 10 at 12:34 EST
I have not read the article yet, but I recall hearing the same problem recently happening on Windows. NVIDIA's code base is over 70% shared between Linux and Windows.