3Dmark06+ 7600GT + Vista= deep freeze?

[blonde]

hey guys,

so i finally finished building my very first computer and everything is working smoothly. however, i tried to run 3Dmark06 yesterday and my computer just freezes in the deep freeze scene (always in the exact same part). i already tried reinstalling 3dmark06 as well as installing all the newest drivers for my video card but the problem still remains. i also tried running 3Dmark05 and everything worked great. at this point, i have no idea what the problem might be but i suspect it is either my video card driver or 3Dmark06 itself.

any ideas will be greatly appreciated...

[stang8118]

are you running the card completely stock?? 3dmark06 is pretty stressful... i believe more so then 3dmark05

[blonde]

thanks for reminding me. the card is a stock XFX 7600GT which is over clocked from the factory.

[stang8118]

hmm usually factory OC's are pretty minimal so i doubt that is the issue. I am also running Vista too and don't have any freezing issues with 06'. Is your computer up to date with microsoft updates??? Also are you running 32bit or 64bit windows??

[blonde]

it is 32 bit Vista Ultimate edition. i have all the latest updates from both windows and nvidia. also, al my temps are very normal and all my games are runnig smooth on max settings (bf2, 2142)

[El<(')>Maxi]

Hi blonde,

I'd try changing your driver settings and PCIe frequencies in BIOS. Verify card temperatures during the entire bench using Rivatuner as it does seem to be a heat issue.

[blonde]

Hi blonde,

I'd try changing your driver settings and PCIe frequencies in BIOS. Verify card temperatures during the entire bench using Rivatuner as it does seem to be a heat issue.


can you explain this in more detail for me? i am a complete noob in all of this. i will download rivatuner and check the temps but i am not sure about the BIOS settings and all of that.

[Spacemonkey]

hey guys,

so i finally finished building my very first computer and everything is working smoothly. however, i tried to run 3Dmark06 yesterday and my computer just freezes in the deep freeze scene (always in the exact same part). i already tried reinstalling 3dmark06 as well as installing all the newest drivers for my video card but the problem still remains. i also tried running 3Dmark05 and everything worked great. at this point, i have no idea what the problem might be but i suspect it is either my video card driver or 3Dmark06 itself.

any ideas will be greatly appreciated...

Try this. Remove the program and all of the related drivers. Reboot. Then reinstall it.

[blonde]

Try this. Remove the program and all of the related drivers. Reboot. Then reinstall it.


i tried that twice now and still no luck. maybe i should just give up and enjoy my games :)

[blonde]

does this help? i got it from rivatuner..

$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Northbridge information
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$0400000000 Description : unknown
$0400000001 Vendor ID : 8086 (Intel)
$0400000002 Device ID : 277c
$0400000003 AGP bus : not supported
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Display adapter information
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$0000000000 Description : NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
$0000000001 Vendor ID : 10de (NVIDIA)
$0000000002 Device ID : 0391
$0000000003 Location : bus 5, device 0, function 0
$0000000004 Bus type : PCIE
$000000000f PCIE link width : 16x supported, 16x selected
$0000000009 Base address 0 : fd000000 (memory range)
$000000000a Base address 1 : d0000000 (memory range)
$000000000b Base address 2 : none
$000000000c Base address 3 : fc000000 (memory range)
$000000000d Base address 4 : none
$000000000e Base address 5 : 0000cc00 (I/O range)
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff NVIDIA specific display adapter information
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$0100000000 Graphics core : NV4B/G73 revision B1 (12pp,5vp)
$0100000001 Hardwired ID : 0391 (ROM strapped to 0391)
$0100000002 Memory bus : 128-bit
$0100000003 Memory type : DDR3 (RAM configuration 03)
$0100000004 Memory amount : 262144KB
$0100000100 Core clock domain 0 : 590.142MHz
$0100000101 Core clock domain 1 : 590.142MHz
$0100000102 Core clock domain 2 : 590.142MHz
$0100000006 Memory clock : 796.500MHz (1593.000MHz effective)
$0100000007 Reference clock : 27.000MHz
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff NVIDIA VGA BIOS information
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$1100000000 Title : GeForce 7600 GT VGA BIOS
$1100000002 Version : 5.73.22.51.11
$1100000100 BIT version : 1.00
$1100000200 Core clock : 590MHz
$1100000201 Memory clock : 800MHz
$1100010000 Performance level 0 : 590MHz/800MHz/31%
$1100010001 Performance level 1 : 590MHz/800MHz/40%
$1100020000 VID bitmask : 00000011b
$1100020100 Voltage level 0 : 1.30V, VID 00000010b
$1100030001 Core thermal compensation : 6°C
$1100030002 Core thermal threshold : 130°C
$1100030004 Thermal diode gain : 0.043°C
$1100030005 Thermal diode offset : -223.160°C

[nvidiaOCmaster]

^^^ not really. How are your temps?

[blonde]

46c according to rivatuner (over 20mins or so)

[nvidiaOCmaster]

Thats good. Now run the first 3Dmark test and tell us what it tops out @.

You may have gotten a corrupt download.

[blonde]

not sure how to do that because everytime i run 3dmark, my computer freezes and i have to restart. how can i see the rivatuner while doing the test?

[blonde]

alright, i logged the entire 3dmark06 session and my temps never went above 63c.

[nvidiaOCmaster]

not sure how to do that because everytime i run 3dmark, my computer freezes and i have to restart. how can i see the rivatuner while doing the test?

Because the screen flashes back to desktop between tests.

[blonde]

thanks man. my video card never went above 63c (around 58 most of the time during 3dmark).