It's begun. NVIDIA has finally begun accepting claims in the class-action settlement from late last year regarding defective laptop GPUs. The issue affected a number of Dell, HP, and Apple laptops, and spread across what can only be called a huge number of different models. The statement NVIDIA made on July 2nd, 2008 admitted the issue, and that the company was taking a $150 - $200 million charge to cover:
Among the symptoms exhibited by affected systems were:
* Distorted or scrambled video on the notebook computer screen
* No video on the notebook computer screen even when the notebook computer is on
* Random characters, lines or garbled images on the notebook computer screenSource;
http://hothardware.com/News/NVIDIA-Begins-Accepting-Defective-GPU-Claims/