NVIDIA Recalls Select Shield Tablets over Fire Hazard

[harry90]

Fire and burning was the old feature, now they will upgrade it with fire proof versions . dont tell anyone that there was a BUG. Bugs belong to amd right?

 

[Mussels]

And people keep telling me AMD hardware runs hot

 

[AsRock]

Fire and burning was the old feature, now they will upgrade it with fire proof versions . dont tell anyone that there was a BUG. Bugs belong to amd right?

Fire proof and that's a joke to some degree, Lets face it, there are bags for RC car battery's which should save you from a house on fire but the amount of toxins will surly kill you real fast. Well by the last video i posted of gave you the idea but even in a safty bag they are really dangerous.

 

[HumanSmoke]

And people keep telling me AMD hardware runs hot

That's a goddamn lie, and Roy Taylor will tell you personally as soon as the doctor gives him the OK to move his facial muscles again

Spoiler

BEFORE:

AFTER:

 

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[john_]

Some 8800GTX cards had a wrong surface mount resistor if I remember correctly. And those 8600M GPU's were likely to break.

ALL 8000 and 9000 desktop AND mobile Nvidia cards had problems and they where destined to fail after a period of time. That's why Nvidia's support to the problem back then, was a driver that was keeping the fan running for more time, helping the card to live a little longer, as longer as necessary to fail after the warranty was expired.

I had one 9800GX2 and a 9800GT failing in my hands. Fortunately they where second hand cards bought from a retail shop(they where emptying stock, probably from customer upgrades). So they had already one or two years of usage in their back and when I bought them came with 1 year of extra warranty. 9800GX2 failed after only 3 months, while 9800GT lasted for 9 months.
9800GT died while playing Borderlands at 720p. I had also a GT620 for the PhysX. With high settings that combination was doing just fine at 30fps.

 

[Mussels]

ALL 8000 and 9000 desktop AND mobile Nvidia cards had problems and they where destined to fail after a period of time. That's why Nvidia's support to the problem back then, was a driver that was keeping the fan running for more time, helping the card to live a little longer, as longer as necessary to fail after the warranty was expired.

I had one 9800GX2 and a 9800GT failing in my hands. Fortunately they where second hand cards bought from a retail shop(they where emptying stock, probably from customer upgrades). So they had already one or two years of usage in their back and when I bought them came with 1 year of extra warranty. 9800GX2 failed after only 3 months, while 9800GT lasted for 9 months.
9800GT died while playing Borderlands at 720p. I had also a GT620 for the PhysX. With high settings that combination was doing just fine at 30fps.

thats why i've moved over to AMD, and find it humorous with all the fanboys who pick one side of the fence as 'bad'
8800GT, 8800GTS, 8800GTX all failed within 3 years, my brother had similar. all reference cards. i hear the nvidia laptops of the time had it the worst.

both companies and the various brands (giga, asus, etc etc) have bad batches, simple as that.

 

[HumanSmoke]

ALL 8000 and 9000 desktop AND mobile Nvidia cards had problems and they where destined to fail after a period of time.

If you're referring to the Low temp/ high Lead underfill issue, your blanket statement is incorrect. The issue affected some G86, G84, G73, G72/G72M GPUs and C51/MCP67 chipsets (up to packaging date of mid-2009). The problem isn't present in BGA's using Hitachi's Eutectic solder. The 9800GX2's generally failed because of the sandwich design of the board (in common with other boards using the same design philosophy), and a certain number of 9800GT's were affected due to unscrupulous vendors relabeling older 8800GT's with insufficient cooling ( single slot blower-shroud with 7 or 9-blade fan) as 9800GT's. G96's of any discrete variety weren't affected (9400/9500 series), nor were G94's (9600 cards), nor GT218 (8400) or MCP84 and MCP79 chipsets.
All this information is readily available via SEC filings.

I had one 9800GX2 and a 9800GT failing in my hands.

The 9800GX2, like the 7900GX2/7950GX2 and the first revision GTX 295 aren't particularly great designs, and the cooling of the reference 8800GT (and those remarked as 9800GT) is far from acceptable - but it largely depends upon usage scenario and chassis airflow. Reference HD 4870's also suffered in this regard (and along with HD 4870 X2 and the seldom seen reference HD 4890) and had staggering failure rates due to a similar design flaw that caused the voltage regulation to overheat and cause memory IC degradation.

 

[john_]

i hear the nvidia laptops of the time had it the worst.

A friend of mine was asking me for an advice 1.5 year ago about buying a second hand Dell laptop with an Nvidia 8000 series mobile GPU in it.
- "It is a Dell, so it must be good. It's only 150 euros"
- "I told you to avoid it. If you want to buy it, but it. But if you call me in 15 days telling me that the screen remains black, I'll just hung up the phone in your face".
He bought a new one with an Ivy bridge Celeron for about twice the price of that Dell. He only wanted to serf the web and stream some NBA games. He is really happy with that laptop.

 

[64K]

says

Damn, more bad press. Just when they stopped making fun of us about the 970 fiasco. Now this!

 

[Caring1]

I feel like there is some kind of obvious conclusion to draw here, granted don't exactly know how to word it succinctly.

Qualcomm, Apple etc all aim toward a very specific power envelope/battery size/form factor, which nvidia clearly exceeds. Qualcomm has bashed nvidia's tegra designs for this very reasoning before. Not just for phones, but also tablets.

The Shield tablet has a relatively huge battery for it's size, yet also worse battery life (let alone comparatively) than many other options. Conclusion: It draws more power than most anything else in that form-factor.

I feel like somewhere within this story is a 'Hey nvidia...we told you so'.

More like Apple lead by example.
http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-macboo...force-best-buy-nix-5100-replacement-batteries
http://9to5mac.com/2014/02/22/this-...e-when-its-battery-catches-fire-and-explodes/

 

[qubit]

I guess we are talking about a few hundred consoles. Nvidia in the past haven't shown to like recalls and accept that something gone wrong with their hardware.

GTX 970 anyone? All we got for that was PR spin because they had a little wiggle room.

 

[truth teller]

at least nVoidia made true to it's fame and is having housefires in the mobile sector too
can't get much better than that on the brand recognition side of things

"damage to flooring" ahahahahaahahahahahaahah

 

[eidairaman1]

Overzealous with the device weren't they

 

[Recus]

The Consumer Product Safety Commission report for the recall has been posted, which offers a bit more insight into the problems and the numbers involved.

NVIDIA has sold 83,000 faulty SHIELD Tablets in the US, along with another 5,000 in Canada. Of those, NVIDIA has received 4 reports of overheating, with 2 of those reports indicating that the overheating tablet had caused property damage (specifically, to flooring).

With this several AMD fanboys lies were destroyed:

1) Shield doesn't sell.
2) All Shield devices are effected.

 

[Mussels]

SHIELD is no more.

 

[AsRock]

SHIELD is no more.

LOL!.

 

[Maban]

My tablet is one of the affected ones. As far as I know I haven't had any battery overheating issues based on internal pictures I've seen. Since some update (don't know if system or Firefox) I've had the SoC get quite hot though.

I got a good sized scratch on my screen and with a few other issues I've been having I was considering RMAing it anyway.

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

Still rocking with an "ancient" nVidia Tegra Note 7 and loving it!

 

[Ruru]

That flame symbol is pretty funny.

 

[Sony Xperia S]

That flame symbol is pretty funny.

Yup, the flame means that the topic is intriguing and the discussion is going under full throttle.

Poor nvidia.

 

[Ruru]

Yup, the flame means that the topic is intriguing and the discussion is going under full throttle.

Poor nvidia.

...like I didn't know that

Just perfect for this.