Rubbish 3dmark06 score and BSOD K8N Neo2 Platinum

Question

I wasn't sure where to post this so please move if necessary: Two issues here.
What sort of score should I be getting with the rig I have?  The score seems way off the pace.  Wonder if there are some settings that need adjusting to get to a reasonable level.  As you can see from signature I have moderate overclock going, which has boosted my score marginally.  The same card on a K7N2 Delta 2-LSR posted 1478 with no overclock.
I'm using latest official drivers (81.98) and graphics card is not overclocked.
Antialiasing, Anisotropic, Vertical Sync all application controlled; Image settings set to High Performance.
I guess I should have checked bios settings before posting but I think fast writes is enabled.
My 3dmark2001se was 18557 at stock and 19538 O'ced.
Do you think there is something wrong with card?
The second issue which I'm not sure is related is a BSOD; BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER; STOP: 0x000000FE which occurred when not actually doing anything.
The reason I mention it is, on my old rig just immediately after installing 6600GT (prior to loading new drivers) I got same STOP message; it mentioned if you have recently added any hardware etc.  I thought this normal and attributed to new graphics card.  Rebooted in safe mode, installed drivers and everything fine.
If not graphics then I'm leaning towards usb receiver for ms keyboard/mouse.
Any pointers?
Thanks Dave

Answer 1

CPU score looks good  what drives you running 8198 ? and have you set them for 06 benching ? under application and active profile setting (performance and quality setting)
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=1913   My score
SM2: 726
HDR/SM3.0: 649
CPU score: 771
At stock 2.0Ghz CPU
GFX 550/1120
on 7772 with no set for 06
Your score does look a bit low. My m8 with and XP 3000+, 1536 DDR, 6800 softmodded 16/6 O/C Core 386, Ram 786 (from 12/5 300/700) gets 1654 on 06 with the latest drivers set (81xx some think) to 06 benching after several days of finding the best tweaked setting for his card. On higher GFX O/C 394/796 he gets 1482
Running stocked (with out AGP drivers for his MOBO chipset, I told him to install them a year ago but did he, NO because he said I can install XP a fresh no problem. lol with out doing correrct drivers it turned out) he got 312 lol. And his games where pausing. I changed the PSU, ram, reseated CPU with new paste and heat sink and added 4 case fans. After all of that I was at a loss as to the problem and he was moaning that it was the MOBO. I knew 99 % is wasn't I've used a few 100 in the past and they were rock.
Well I loaded AGP drivers and hey his score when from 312 to 1340. I nearly switched on him  . For nearly a year he was moaning about the build and parts I used pointing the finger @ me. I told him I would install XP and set it up right. But he was to fast and wanted to get his rig home (before I fully finished my routine of a build and set up). And he stated "I can install XP and add drivers its easy"  ???
ARRRRRRRRRRRR makes me mad after all the hours I tested it with different programs and added and removed hardware. And it was down to him not loading drivers off the MOBO disk or downloading new ones direct from the website. The thing is he installed XP 3 times over that year. Yet had he had waited a few hours more for me to set it up. He would not have needed to moan and I would not have waste hours, trying to find the problem. I must have asked him 10 + times did you load all the drivers correctly. And in the end I had 2 
I just happy that he takes what I say to heart now. As he nearly blew his system due to being to fast. Jumping in at the deep end before being able to even keep a float. As with all tweaking its a matter of knowing what to do and taking it in small steps to find limits of your hardware !
Sorry end of rant