3DMark03 crashes?!

[st0nedpenguin]

Righto, just wanted to run off a few benchies at stock speeds to get me a baseline for comparison at overclocked speeds, to find that at the end of every test, 3DMark03 encounters a "problem" and crashes.

System is in my sig, running the Cat 4.10 drivers, anyone have the slightest idea what's going on here?

(3DMark05 runs fine by the way)

[eva2000]

settings in bios would help etc

[st0nedpenguin]

Everything is at stock basically, all I've done is set the SATA RAID options to let me boot into Windows, and disabled the onboard sound.

However after a little rummage on the Futuremark forums, it seems I'm not alone, apparently crashing after the individual tests is quite common, and something that should be fixed in a new patch due soon, if I do find anything that sorts this out in the meantime though, I'll post it here. :)

[eva2000]

no probs with my DFI NF3 250Gb and BH-5 with 9800Pro

make sure SATA is port 3+4 and might want to set drive strength to 1 with 2x 512

[st0nedpenguin]

Seems the one thing linking people running all kinds of hardware, is using SP2, and apparently, it's the slipstreamed version that has the problem, crashing in SI3.dll.

Guess who is running a slipstreamed SP2? :rolleyes:

[eva2000]

yeah use win2k sp4 ;)

[G|-|oST]

yeah use win2k sp4 ;)

isnt't the win2k SP-2 the fastest for 3dmark01? not saying you're wrong, just wanted to know...

edit. nvm, its the SP4 thats fastest, just saw in other thread.

[eva2000]

nah macci recently benched and win2k sp4 is 200-400pts more than sp2 IIRC

[G|-|oST]

Yes thats the thread I saw, thanks. I stand corrected.