3D-Marks 2000 are Killing me........

[Renob]

My system is a Cell-2 566@850 rock solid. Leadtek Ge-Force 2 256megs of generic ram. When run 3D marks it alway kicks me to my desk top when it is laoding the 16megs of tex test. It did the same thing with my old cpu a PIII-450 not overclocked. I have the new drivers for everything. and i turn everything off that running in the background when i test. Thanks for the help. P.S. I saw her and I told her that you Loved her.

 

[compuwiz1]

Have you tried raising the cpu voltage a little. Sounds to me like you are just on the virge of stability.

 

[Renob]

Wiz it did the same thing with my PIII-450. And my Cell-2 will run seti for days no problem or Quake 3 non stop no problem Oh and my volts are at 1.8.

 

[compuwiz1]

3Dmark has done the same thing to me on processors I know are stable. I think it has something to do with not being setup properly for the new instruction set of the Coppermine/Celeron2.
Try increasing or decreasing the AGP aperature size either above 64 or below, if it makes any differnce. You should be able to go as high as 256.

 

[Diceman]

Hey guys......if you gohttp://www.madonion.com theres an update for the 3dmark2000 program that fixes the bad CPU clock read and a few other things.........get it (its like 2.5 meg) and you should be set!

 

[compuwiz1]

Cool, thanks! Going there now.

 

[Renob]

Dice man i loaded the patch to 3D mark 2000 yesterday it did not help. And Wiz im going to change the agp setting 64 i have it set to 128 now.

 

[Renob]

Wiz i set my agp aterature size an 32 128 256 still the same problem.

 

[compuwiz1]

Well, I could go on and on about things I would try. Ram timings might also be something I would consider. Different video drivers also. Your's may be up to date, but sometimes going from Manufacturer to reference, or back a generation, etc will help too.

 

[Renob]

Thanks Wiz I will try but i have to go to work will be back is 8 hours.

 

[Renob]

Wiz i have a ?. I can run the 3Dmarks 99 but at Madonion i cant compare with other scores. My 99 numbers are 3Dmarks-6461 and the CPU-11273 are these nmubers any good?????

 

[fxsts]

According to my experience, 3dmark2000 is the most challenging to complete for overclocked chips.

Many overclocked chips which I tried did everything including 3dmark99, Sandra, Seti, Oda's CPU stability utility (I forgot the name), and Q3 but did not complete 3dmark2000.

I think the castle sections are the toughest to pass.

In fact, I do not consider chips 100% stable unless they run 3dmark 2000 at least a couple of times in a row.

 

[birddog]

A system I set up for a friend has the same problem (Celeron 466 @525, Tyan Trinity 400, intel 740/Voodoo2), the system is rock stable, but it kicks 3dmark 2000 back to the desktop. I Installed the program off the same disk I used to intstall it on mine. Even when his processor is not overclocked, it will not run the 3Dmark.

 

[BlazingSaddles]

RenoB, I have the same problem. I am using 3Dmark2000 v1.1, and in the castle parts, it just kicks me back out onto the desktop. I've ran the Stability Test for 11+ hours. I'm o'c-ing a celII 533A to 896 (8x112). I just wanted to let you know I have the same problem. I'll check this thread again to see if any solutions pops up.

 

[Renob]

Well I get past the castle part no prob it kicks me when it starts to load the 16meg of texture. Plus it would kick me at the same test with my PIII-450 no overclocked. and I can run 3D marks 99 and my score is 6461 3dmarks and 11273 cpu marks are these numbers any good????

 

[fr]

Add me to the list. I have the same prob with 3DMark2000. 3DMark99 MAX works fine though.

 

[han888]

same problem here!! i got kick to the desktop when i try to run 3dmark2000, i try to set agp apeture size to 64,128,256 but still can not help here!!! and i am not overlock my system

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[BuddyHolly]

Pretty weird how some have problems with 3d marks 2000 and some don't. My 566c is overclocked almost double its speed and will complete the test fine running any 5.x driver. If I go too far, it crashes to the desktop, but that is because it is not stable at the speed in 3d. Pretty much if it will complete the benchmark, it will run games without crashing. I wonder what other components come into play. Quality of the RAM? Another question, it there anything more stressful than watching those test and hoping to make it through at a new setting? Kinda sad to know I am cheering for my computer...

 

[BlazingSaddles]

This is probably not an overclocking problem, as people who have not overclocked their computers are getting the same problem. I've ran the stability test again, this time for over 15 hours on my o'ced computer, with no problems. Hopefully its just 3Dmarks2000, not the CPU.

 

[AdamK47]

Heres something you can try....

Leave only 1 DIMM of memory in the computer and set the AGP aperature size to half of the installed RAM.

 

[Eug]

What a little cooling will do...

My worst problems for 3DMark2000:

CPU far too overclocked.
Vid card far too overclocked.
Memory timings.
Other.

Depending on how I set up my machine, I can actually get it to run 3DMark2000 with a V3 2000 at 190 MHz (sometimes).

Interestingly, until I added better cooling to the V3, and tweaked down the CPU speed a bit, I couldn't even get the V3 to run at 166 MHz.

Anyways, I can get well over 3200 3DMarks with this lowly V3.

By the way, I do not consider a CPU test alone a good test of CPU stability. Why? Because you HAVE to stress the video card as well. I can run those CPU burn-in programs all day (even several along with surfing at the same time), but if I throw a video intensive app in on top of it, it hangs within 30 minutes even if the video card is not overclocked. I wonder if that little extra case temp from the active vid card is enough to push those marginal CPUs over the edge. Decrease the CPU speed a touch, or up the voltage, then all is happy again.

By the way, I was using the old version of 3DMark2000 with my Celeron 533A, so it works at least with some of them.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Strange...I have my 600 CBO at 744 (124FSB) and a *gasp* TNT1 and it gets through it fine. We won't discuss the score I get think my vidcard is really holding me back. hahah

 

[Renob]

Yahooooo I got it to work With the help of Adam K46 you were right it works with 128 megs and 192megs but not 256megs and my score was 4988 with my Cell-2 566@850 with a Ge-Force 2 AdamK46 thanks alot this was driving me CRAZY. and by the way if you see her tell that I love her....

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Re-did the test at 129 FSB 773Mhz without a prob. The difference between my 3dmark scores at 600 and at 773 was less than 80 points. Guess that means that my TNT is probably holding me back hun?

 

[Renob]

Antisocial Post those scores cowboy u are among friends.