For those of you complaining about maufacturers not replacing parts, how can they, it would cost them untold millions and could possibly bankrup Nvidia if they replaced every defective GPU board with an updated one (usally on MB)

In case this doesn't make the front page, I want to add this to our dwindling discussion:

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/31/hp-pays-half...

I reverted back to my old Dell BIOS and I'm going to pound the hell out of that thing until it breaks (Orthos Small FFT and 3DMark), if it doesn't, then it must be ok, if it does, Dell will be getting a long discussion from me about how I won't be getting another defective GPU from them.

I have a dv6110 that is about a year old.
No problems at all, works great still.

NVIDIA's looking pretty dumb right now.

"limited warranty service enhancement" that's valid for two years from the start of the regular warranty coverage period"

Say I buy my laptop in January 2008 with a standard 1 year warranty. That warranty expires in January 2009. This "enhanced" warranty gives me one additional year so it would expire in January 2010.

Say I buy my laptop in January 2008 with a 2 year warranty. That warranty expires in January 2010. This "enhanced" warranty gives me no additional warranty period so I get nothing out of this.

Say I buy my laptop in January 2008 with a 3 year warranty. That warranty expires in January 2011. This "enhanced" warranty is totally worthless.

The bottom line is this - it's a defective part right now. It isn't defective at some indeterminate part in the future - it is defective as I am writing this. Whether it dies in one month or 4 years, it is due to its current defective condition. The graphics card warranty should extend to a lifetime warranty for this particular issue, so if it dies 5 years in the future due to this flaw the graphics card should still be covered.

I just bought an HP laptop, I'm glad to see they've increased the warranty.

Hmmmm, yet more information supporting the INQ's article.