I’m in a huge bind here, Blender is causing my computer to completely freeze up ( Requiring a power cycle / computer restart ) whenever I orbit around an object. I can orbit for maybe 5~30 seconds before my computer freezes up. It starts with Blender freezing, then five seconds later my mouse will freeze, my keyboard will freeze, and then I have to press the reset/power button on my computer. This happens regardless of what file I am working on or working on a new file.
I have no idea what is causing this. This computer used to have no problems with blender, and there have been zero hardware changes or OS upgrades or anything significant I can think of. It just randomly started doing this one day and it has completely killed my ability to use Blender in any way.
I Have tried the following with no luck:
-Ran a Furmark benchmark test and tried other GPU intensive programs ( 3DSMAX runs fine, games like Tribes Ascend run fine, etc. ) to see to see if anything is wrong with my GPU ( No problems found )
-Reinstalled/Rolled back/Uninstalled/Updated my video drivers many times with different versions tried. ( No difference made. Blender will crash like this no matter what state my drivers are in. )
-Scanned for viruses/malware ( Nothing found )
-Tried different versions of Blender ( 2.60, 2.63, Various graphicall builds ) All of them froze up.
-Tried running blender under factory settings to see if it was some obscure memory option I accidentally ticked ( Still freezes )
-Tried running blender with fraps. Here is where something strange happened, or maybe totally normal? I have no idea? When using fraps to test blenders FPS, fraps will display an FPS of zero. as soon as I start to orbit in 3D view, fraps shows my FPS shooting up to 300~400 followed by a computer crash. I have never tested blender with fraps before so I have no idea if this is normal or is telling me something.
My specs are:
8 GB ram
Phenom II 975 3.6 Ghz quad core
Radeon HD-6750 1GB
Windows 7 Ult 64bit
ASRock M3A770DE Motherboard
25% free HD space
Any help at all would be much appreciated. I have no idea what is going on or how I got so unlucky with such an obscure bug.