Canadians, nVidia may owe you money. (Time's limited)

[3DVagabond]

http://www.canadiannvidiasettlement.com/Home.aspx?case=nvidia&ln=EN

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A settlement has been approved by the court in the NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units Class Action with NVIDIA (the "Settlement Agreement"). Under the Settlement Agreement, NVIDIA will pay CAD$1,900,000.00 for the benefit of the Settlement Class in exchange for a full release of claims against it in the NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units Class Action.

The settlement offers cash compensation for people who between November 2005 and February 2010 purchased certain laptop computers made by Apple, Compaq, Dell, HP, or Sony and containing a defective graphics card made by NVIDIA.

The Settlement Agreement provides partial cash reimbursement of the purchase price.

You must submit a claim by February 25, 2014.

Follow the link for more info.

 

[FalseChristian]

That's good of you to post that. When I 1st saw your Header I thought: "Wow! I'm gonna be compensated for those 2 lousy 512MB Asus 8800GT SLI that lasted all of 8 months." LOL!

There are a lot of Canadians like me on this forum and I know they will appreciate your efforts.

 

[Rezoke]

Oh that could be of use...

 

[Silverforce11]

Thats ridiculous, it is the fault of Apple in particular who didn't put in enough cooling on the their laptop.. what exactly is the fault of NV in this?

 

[KompuKare]

That's good of you to post that. When I 1st saw your Header I thought: "Wow! I'm gonna be compensated for those 2 lousy 512MB Asus 8800GT SLI that lasted all of 8 months." LOL!

I think officially Nvidia only sort of begrudgingly (after lawsuits) acknowledged G84M and G86M. Whereas judging from the amount of 8800GT and even nForce products which failed with symptoms which appear identical to the solder defects in G84M/G86M, the problem seems to have affected most/all of Nvidia's 65nm products. Which would be millions of parts putting the Nvidia bumbgate problem out there with capacitor plague in terms of electronics going to the landfills before their time.

What I found strange is now little coverage these kind of problems get in the press. Seems that Intel is the only company which pro-actively sorts out any problems they encounter or at least that's the impression the SB chipset recall gave me.

 

[3DVagabond]

Thats ridiculous, it is the fault of Apple in particular who didn't put in enough cooling on the their laptop.. what exactly is the fault of NV in this?

laptop computers made by Apple, Compaq, Dell, HP, or Sony and containing a defective graphics card made by NVIDIA.

Apple's fault?

 

[Silverforce11]

Didn't Apple took the brunt of the blame for that fiasco already? So long ago now..

 

[ShintaiDK]

Isnt it ending up by something that you get 5-10$ after extended paperwork? Or in layman terms, utterly useless. I doubt much of that money will be payed out. They could just as well just pay it to the canadian welfare state.

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[AnandThenMan]

Isnt it ending up by something that you get 5-10$ after extended paperwork? Or in layman terms, utterly useless. I doubt much of that money will be payed out. They could just as well just pay it to the canadian welfare state.

Anyway, I guess this is better than nothing but Nvidia never did make right by their customers.

 

[JDG1980]

Thats ridiculous, it is the fault of Apple in particular who didn't put in enough cooling on the their laptop.. what exactly is the fault of NV in this?

Google "bumpgate".

The problem wasn't inadequate cooling in the laptops. The problem was that repeated normal heating and cooling cycles were causing the BGA solder 'bumps' to crack. Nvidia's packaging was defective.

 

[Lonyo]

Isnt it ending up by something that you get 5-10$ after extended paperwork? Or in layman terms, utterly useless. I doubt much of that money will be payed out. They could just as well just pay it to the canadian welfare state.

Didn't Apple took the brunt of the blame for that fiasco already? So long ago now..

Welcome to class action lawsuits.

 

[AnandThenMan]

This is basically what happened:

• Portables with Nvidia GPUs started having artifacts and failed shortly after
• Nvidia first denied any problem, then blamed the OEMs, then blamed TSMC
• Nvidia finally admitted they were at fault and shared costs with OEMs to replace dead GPUs, or entire motherboards
• Replacement GPUs had the same flaws as original, to get around this the BIOS was updated to spin the fan faster to delay the inevitable

 

[pitz]

This worked out very well for me in the end. Got back nearly twice what I had paid for the laptop up-front which more than covered the time and materials that went into the repair.

AFAIK, there never really was a true 'fix' other than to go out and buy a new laptop. But considering that what formerly were $2000 laptops were available on eBay for $200, not exactly a problem.

 

[3DVagabond]

This worked out very well for me in the end. Got back nearly twice what I had paid for the laptop up-front which more than covered the time and materials that went into the repair.

AFAIK, there never really was a true 'fix' other than to go out and buy a new laptop. But considering that what formerly were $2000 laptops were available on eBay for $200, not exactly a problem.

Did you just recently get your settlement? I'm wondering how long it took for you to get paid out?

 

[railven]

Make sure you guys get your cut! Always get whatever free money you can!

 

[tential]

I missed this

My Nvidia Laptop though from that time STILL is working though. So I'm ok with it I guess. I would have liked the free money though towards a new AMD GPU. Sorry Nvidia, gotta give me my Gsync the way I like it if you want my money!

 

[3DVagabond]

I missed this

My Nvidia Laptop though from that time STILL is working though. So I'm ok with it I guess. I would have liked the free money though towards a new AMD GPU. Sorry Nvidia, gotta give me my Gsync the way I like it if you want my money!

For you it would have been free money, since you didn't suffer any failures. For those who were actually effected though, it's due them.

 

[Keysplayr]

Yeah mine is still working also. Dell Vostro 1500 with GeForce 8600M I believe. Still working. On it's 3rd battery though.

 

[pitz]

Did you just recently get your settlement? I'm wondering how long it took for you to get paid out?

Took a little over a year.

 

[master_shake_]

ah bumpgate.

when your laptop could go kaput from a simple jarring.

 

[Azix]

This is basically what happened:

• Portables with Nvidia GPUs started having artifacts and failed shortly after
• Nvidia first denied any problem, then blamed the OEMs, then blamed TSMC
• Nvidia finally admitted they were at fault and shared costs with OEMs to replace dead GPUs, or entire motherboards
• Replacement GPUs had the same flaws as original, to get around this the BIOS was updated to spin the fan faster to delay the inevitable

Why I think thrice before i buy nvidia. You never know when they are pulling some crap. Caught me with the 970, not again.

 

[kaesden]

Welcome to class action lawsuits.

gotta love class action suits, company pays out some chump change, lawyers get rich, and consumers never really notice.

 

[xorbe]

I have a "dead" Dell laptop, and Dell gave me the finger when I tried to RMA back in the day. $2000 laptop with Quadro chip.

 

[3DVagabond]

gotta love class action suits, company pays out some chump change, lawyers get rich, and consumers never really notice.

Well, I wouldn't be surprised if the lawyers made out well. I don't think they get paid the same ridiculous amounts they do in the States, though.

This worked out very well for me in the end. Got back nearly twice what I had paid for the laptop up-front which more than covered the time and materials that went into the repair.

AFAIK, there never really was a true 'fix' other than to go out and buy a new laptop. But considering that what formerly were $2000 laptops were available on eBay for $200, not exactly a problem.

But this poster made out pretty good.