3dmark 2003 Crash

[vassil3427]

Just before the second test begins in the new 3dmark, the program just crashes...either freezing, or just quitting as though it had never been running...
I reinstalled the Nvidia 41.09 drivers
Reinstalled 3dmark 2003

I have directX 9.0 installed too

My systems specs are:
Athlon Xp 1800+
384mb PC2100
Geforce 4 Ti4200
SB Audigy
Windows Xp Home Edition Sp1 installed

I've tried running it over and over again..no luck, always crashs just before second test starts... Any ideas?

 

[Vehementi]

What exactly is the 2nd test and what does it test?

Are you overclocking?

Any device conflicts, etc.?

 

[vassil3427]

Well I attempted to run it one more time and this time it froze on the first game test, and then blacked out, the popped up in windows(displaying 256 colors...)an error that said "windows has just recovered from a severe device failure, please reboot"(or almost just like that. When I restarted, windows had me submit some kind of a special error report, which stated my Geforce 4 had failed....
I am not overclocking, and its a PNY GF4, no conflicts...

 

[Supra]

My computer did the same thing when it started the fifth test. When I rebooted I tried to run it again it locked up on the second test . I haven't been able to run through the whole benchmark yet

 

[vassil3427]

Hey Supra which Nvidia drivers are you running? I'm running the 41.09's

 

[vassil3427]

I tried the newest 42.84 or whatever drivers, and managed to get through the second test, then it failed just like above

 

[SNGX1275]

Keep trying different drivers - update VIA 4n1 if applicable. Check your event viewer too, I'm willing to bet that its the nv4disp.dll error, infinite loop thing. (I believe thats the dll that is listed). *I think* that for some reason something in SP1 keeps XP from blue screening on the infinite loop error now and it just reverts to saying device failure and drops to some insane amount of colors like 4bit. I had it happen to me the other day when I was testing a bunch of drivers for my nVidia.

 

[vassil3427]

Well according to the Event Viewer it is the nv4_disp.dll file and it said it did get stuck in infinite loop, there was also another warning just before that that said "serial" and it said "unable to create symbolic link for device\serial1"
And then theres a very long list of errors saying "Vblank callback timeout Head 00000....." with different numbers at the end of them. I'll keep trying some other drivers...

Oh and I dont have a VIA chipset, I have the SIS735 chipset, which is a single chip, no northbridge or southbridge.....

 

[SNGX1275]

Was talking to StormBringer in the channel and he said he came across this: http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=1388
Maybe try giving that a shot.

 

[vassil3427]

Well as far as I can tell, it worked, I set the apeture to 128mb and it finsished all the tests:grinthumb ...kinda stupid of me..I should have tried that before...thanks!:grinthumb

 

[Supra]

I've got MSI's 41.07's since I have an MSI ti 4200. I'm also using the VIA hyperion drivers. I'm gonna try changing my agp aperture sizes and the agp read writes.

 

[Supra]

I got mine to work!!! I just upped my VDIMM voltage by .10 volts and it worked. The only problem is the score of 1074. Now that I think about it all the headaches weren't worth it:dead:

 

[iss]

I installed the new 3Dmark 2003 and the tests ran fine ( score 1580) but then I started having complete system lock ups trying to use other applications. investigating I found that many of my programs could no longer acess "ms coree .dll" I uninstalled 3dMark 2003 and did a restore to just before I installed the new 3Dmark and no more problem.