3dmarkse crashes, whats wrong?

[FrozenAthlon]

Just got my PC running with everything installed and working properly. The only compliant I seem to have is the sudden crash every time I run the 3dmark benchmarks. I have the visiontek ti 4600 running on p4 2.0ghz w/rdram. The drivers installed are the latest 28.32 from nvidia's website. A brief description of whats happening is the screen goes blank and I need to reset my pc. Boots up fine but then will prompt an error message for an unexpected shutdown most likely caused by the video card. Thanks for any input on this situation. Oh yeah, I did try uninstall and reinstall the same drivers.

Frozen

 

[FrozenAthlon]

anyone?

 

[Bozo Galora]

i could post this every day

 

[FrozenAthlon]

yes but i dont understand.... first off - thats for an amd based system that includes the via 4 in 1. second why does a gf4 card need to be set at 2x when it should run flawlessly on a 4x setting. anyways even if this is the loop problem and not a driver situation then is it necessary to reinstall windows. the card works fine and plays games without problems. I just want to make sure that Im not going to wipe my HD for the satisfaction of running 3dmark.

Thanks
Frozen

 

[Bozo Galora]

the loop is the card trying to initialize over and over until failure (nvdsp.dll)
the loop is just stop on error, instead of crash
the AGP 2.0 4X specifications are too tight to be successfully implemented on a $100 mobo.
the six strobe voltages (three normal 2X and 3 complimentary for 4X) must be within .04V
do not confuse ref strobes voltages (Vddq) with voltages needed for GPU and on board RAM - thats a whole
nuther prob, and dif pinouts on the cardedge connector.

everyone screams and stomps their feet and say I paid for 4X and thats what I am gonna get.
but all you get is freezes, crashes and BSOD's
thats all you see here, day after day, month after month.
the more the stress on card, the more likely the crash.
try a hairy D3D game, see what happens.
Intel ref boards are lots better in this respect because Intel invented AGP. VIA has to back engineer their
chipset (corelogic)

If you don't believe it, download the AGP 2.0 PDF here
and read it.

And to all the peeps who think they are running 4X successfully, well bless you, you lucky little rascals.

And AGP 3.0, 8X is going to be even worse - .8V, not 1.5V - even more finesse.