XFX GeForce 7600GS AGP 8X 256MB crashes in Second Life

[kev25]

I recently installed a new Graphics card (XFX GeForce 7600GS AGP 8X 256MB DDR2).I got this new card in order to play Second Life. SL runs much smoother and the environment seems to load a lot faster, however, I get random crashes where the system freezes, the screen goes black, the sound goes and then after a minute or so my computer will reboot, if I don't restart it first. I followed the usual measures when installing the card. I uninstalled my old drivers, turned off my virus scanner, and I've made sure that my BIOS settings corresponded to the new hardware. And I followed the directions on the NVidia web sit for installing the new driver. I also flashed to the latest BIOS-(CI8E1013) and installed the latest chip set drivers for my Asus MB.
I don't have any other games installed on this computer, so I don't know if I'd crash doing something other than playing SL. Sometimes I can be in SL for several hours before things black out and freeze, other times just a few minutes.
Is there a particular set of drivers that I should install in order to do SL?
The system runs just fine other than this SL crash problem.
I also downloaded a free Graphics stress test and ran it for an hour without any problems.
I posted this problem to the forums at Second Life, but didn't get any solutions.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it.
Thx in advance
Ethan

System Specs:
ASUS "A7N8X-E Deluxe" nForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ "Barton", 333 FSB, 512K Cache Processor
XFX GeForce 7600GS AGP 8X 256MB DDR2
CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel
WD Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
WD Caviar SE WD1200JB 120GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive
AntecTru 430w Power supply

NewestGraphics Driver:91.47
Newest ChipSet Drivers: nForce_5.10_WinXP2K_WHQL_english

Old Graphhics Card: GeForce FX-5900XT 128MB which I am now using again.

 

[Craig234]

Might want to try the Tech Support forum. That's the same card I just got for WoW and it's working great, while the 6200 I tried was crashing. I don't play second life so can't compare, maybe I'll download and try it later just to give you one other bit of info.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Sounds like a heat issue. Try underclocking the CPU and/or the video card and see what happens. My fiancee got into SL a couple of weeks ago and we noticed some graphical anomalies that were a result of the cpu being overclocked from 2.2 to 2.64 ghz. I dialed it back to 2.60 ghz and all has been fine since. SL is the only program has protested the overclocking.

 

[kev25]

Nothing on my computer is overclocked. Can you tell me a quick way to underclock my CPU? Is it done in the BIOS settings?
Thanks

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

In the BIOS, just try lowering the multiplier. So if your multiplier is 11x, try changing it to 9x. Maybe the hsf is not seated properly or something like that.