14 DAY TRIAL // Although NVIDIA holds a fairly OK record in terms of product quality, the company really botched things up a few years ago, when quite a large number of faulty notebook GPUs shipped in several portable computing systems from various manufacturers, but now, the company seems keen to make up for its mistakes and reimburse the owners.
Following the settlement of a class action lawsuit filed against it, NVIDIA has decided to start reimbursing the notebook owners who've suffered the effects of faulty GPUs.
And it really seems that quite a large number of portable computing systems from Dell, HP and Apple have been affected by the aforementioned issues, as the page set up by NVIDIA reveals quite an ugly truth in this respect.
The company has also provided some info on just how the faulty GPUs behaved, generating some symptoms as distorted or scrambled video on the notebook computer screen, no video on the notebook computer screen even when the notebook computer is on, as well as the appearance of random characters, lines or garbled images on the notebook computer screen and intermittent video issues (that latter issues only manifesting on select models from HP or Dell).
NVIDIA offers customers several reimbursement options, as they can opt to either get their notebooks completely replaced (in certain specific situations), or just the faulty GPUs.
Of course, since most of owners of notebooks featuring faulty NVIDIA GPUs have already replaced the troublesome parts, the company also offers them a reimbursement option, provided they still have the invoice or other documents to prove the respective expenses.
All in all, we''ll have to admit that this move from NVIDIA is quite a welcome one, although we're also pretty sure it's somewhat related to the recent cash injection it received from Intel following their own settlement.