Originally Posted by
AnthonyGA
Changing drivers will generally have no effect on cooling issues. The only exception would be if there's a variable-speed fan on the video adapter and the driver is not setting the speed appropriately, but that's highly unlikely.
That may not be true: I've read of people having problems with my model of laptop when they installed the Nvidia driver instead of the version that Toshiba supply... it seems the driver on Nvidia's web site either runs the GPU faster or lets it run to a higher temperature than the Toshiba-ised version.