Are Nvidia failure issues spreading to HP desktops, Apple MacBooks?

Yep, had to send my Dell XPS M1710 back in the first year to have the motherboard, gpu (Geforce Go 7950 GTX), memory sticks and keyboard all replaced. A year and half later the motherboard and 7950 GTX is fried again. Never even played a game on this over-priced paper weight. Dell knows the problem exists but would rather lose lifetime customers than even meet you part way. live and learn.

im on my third macbook 2.4 aluminum, first 2 had vram failure, does this have to do with the nvidia geforce 9400m?

My 6 months DELL XPS M1330 with 8400 failed as well. Anyone has a solution? Guess not...

I have a DV9330 and failed last night. I called HP and it said I need to pay for this because my laptop is out of warranty and not in the HP list. I am totally not satisfied about this ecause it is a manufacture's flaw.

More likely another in a series of issues where corporate management has driven a BAD core decision in an effort to save face or money or bith over good engineering practice.

Bga technology was never meant to be flexed.Bad QC and bad mechanical design and poor heat and thermal dissipation are allot of the causes. Engineers should go back to school.We need more expert technicians who can do the proper Q.C.

Since Rhos compliancy the failure rates have sky rocketed.I think we have a bad BGA quality control soldering issue with 70 percent of electronic equipment.

My Dell D630 crapped out with at first intermittent video flashing followed by no video even at BIOS boot. I had to replace the mother board as the laptop was not under any warantee. Nvidia should pay for my problem. This is BS!

The nVidia 7950 in a Dell XPS notebook has failed twice now. I suspect that the problems with nVidia chips are far more wides spread than Apple and HP.

Since the purchasers bought the equipment from the OEM, the OEM should be bear the initial cost for the repair. Compensation for defective components should be a totally separate issue between the OEM and the component maufacture as there is no way for anyone to deal with an entire supply chain in the maufacture of any component.

Just to confirm Apple MacBook Pro video instability on a 2 month old 2.6GB core 2 duo, 4GB Ram machine. Appears to be related to the described Nvidia graphics processor problems. Video flashes on and off at 5 - 7 second interval rate, making the unit basically an unusable piece of Junk.

I've had two pavilions die this week both with guess who's video chip. One failed exactly 1 hour past the end of the warranty period. This is not isolated at all, look at batteries, displays,motherboards etc. Same problems on Toshiba's and a few others. The difference is how they deal with the end user. What we are seeing is the same thing the auto industry does, they see if it is cheaper to fix them publicly or let people toss them when they fail.

Follow the failure to the testing strategy. They knew what they weren't doing.

To the topic question, sure if they were aware of the problem at some level and used the part anyway. However, having said that; It is common in business for OEMs to take care of their customers problems and backcharge the supplier if the parts supplied were involved in the failure and added customer service costs. The assumption that the OEMs will cover the failures alone may not be valid.

The OEMs should make the repairs and seek compensation from Nvidia. Isn't that what happened with the Sanyo laptop batteries? I am appalled by the brevity of these extensions. HP is extending for a year or less, and apparently Apple is doing likewise (assuming Macs come with a 1-year warranty). The warranty should be extended for 4 or 5 years.