I appeal the the techies in the guild.... Seriously. . . I am going crazy...
I appeal the the techies in the guild.... Seriously. . . I am going crazy...
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Aloraphynia
Friend Poster's IP: Logged Roflwafl(80) Aloraphynia(82) Rawrlrdawtz(4)
Posted: 5907 days ago
Edited: 5907 days ago
so as most know.. I bought a new computer about 3 weeks ago... http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10107782&catid= if that doesn't work it is a compaq sr5552rf...... at ..... dA..... at .......T... ........ at ... @.s.T... at ....... ....o.. at l... `e)........ at .......d... e.r........ at ... .... at ........... ..........w at ... q........ at ... .......r at .......
ansga
Member Poster's IP: Logged Ddyaista(80) ansguh(85) khangald(85) Ansga(85) coercian(82)
Last time i heard about/saw a problem like this, it was a stick of memory going bad. I know you said the machine isnt even a month old but you still cant rule out hardware failure. And no, im not saying its the best chance/only chance, just something to look into at some point.
You can check your memory by running a program called memtest. Go to the website, click on free download on the left hand side, download the .zip file that suits you best, burn the image to a CD. After all that, put the cd in the drive and reboot the computer, hopefully it will already be trying to boot from the CD drive first and if so the system will automatically go into memtest and start running it. This isnt a short test mind you but it does a damn good job of checking the memory.
http://www.memtest86.com/ If anyone else has other options, cause i know that memory isnt the only possible wrong, just a fairly easy option to check.
Locklear
Friend Poster's IP: Logged Locklear(85) Calistrae(85)
Last time i heard about/saw a problem like this, it was a stick of memory going bad. I know you said the machine isnt even a month old but you still cant rule out hardware failure. And no, im not saying its the best chance/only chance, just something to look into at some point.
You can check your memory by running a program called memtest. Go to the website, click on free download on the left hand side, download the .zip file that suits you best, burn the image to a CD. After all that, put the cd in the drive and reboot the computer, hopefully it will already be trying to boot from the CD drive first and if so the system will automatically go into memtest and start running it. This isnt a short test mind you but it does a damn good job of checking the memory.
http://www.memtest86.com/ If anyone else has other options, cause i know that memory isnt the only possible wrong, just a fairly easy option to check.
Alternately, Vista has its own memory test built in. You can schedule it to run on next boot.
ansga
Member Poster's IP: Logged Ddyaista(80) ansguh(85) khangald(85) Ansga(85) coercian(82)
Ah, yeah... i should mention that i still run XP, and dont know much about vista yet either.
infernally
Member Poster's IP: Logged Wingwraith(100) infernally(80)
Posted: 5907 days ago
Edited: 5907 days ago
My first guess would be memory as well. The link provided says the PC came w/ 3BG RAM. I'm guessing three 1GB sticks or maybe one 1GB + one 2GB sticks. Either way, try taking out one of the sticks of ram. Reboot, run WOW, look for error, repeat til you've checked all sticks of ram. It's a simple easy to do process of elimination. Hopefully, you take out one of the sticks and the error goes away. Then just replace that stick.
Aloraphynia
Friend Poster's IP: Logged Roflwafl(80) Aloraphynia(82) Rawrlrdawtz(4)
I have made sure every driver is up to date, I have checked them and rechecked. I am new to vista though so I will have to hunt for the memory test...
Locklear
Friend Poster's IP: Logged Locklear(85) Calistrae(85)
I am new to vista though so I will have to hunt for the memory test..
Start->Search Bar
Type "Memory". Should pop up.
infernally
Member Poster's IP: Logged Wingwraith(100) infernally(80)
Posted: 5907 days ago
Edited: 5907 days ago
here's a good walk-through on using the Memory Diagnostics Tool
Vista4Beginners
Aloraphynia
Friend Poster's IP: Logged Roflwafl(80) Aloraphynia(82) Rawrlrdawtz(4)
so I figured out how to use the memory diagnostic.. thanks to Nove...
Isadoriana
Dragon.Council Poster's IP: Logged Isadoriana(96) Riice(77) Peligrie(76) Lotustalla(50)
Is is possible to take it back to where you bought it and say "it's having this problem--it's new--wtf?"
Angryangel
Friend Poster's IP: Logged Doubledee(80) (retired)
Posted: 5907 days ago
Edited: 5907 days ago
Primevalus
Dragon Council GM Poster's IP: Logged Primevalus(100) Primevalrage(66)
I see a lot of good suggestions here, I don't have much to add. Errors like this are usually caused by bad RAM or possibly RAM that has the timings set too tightly, although you have a prefab PC and that shouldn't be an issue. Good luck!
Aloraphynia
Friend Poster's IP: Logged Roflwafl(80) Aloraphynia(82) Rawrlrdawtz(4)
Posted: 5906 days ago
Edited: 5906 days ago
bahahaha Peli! yeah... I am afraid to take it back to them.. I have the worst temper when it comes to box stores... especially if they look at me and are like what do you mean only when you play a game....
guy
Administrator Poster's IP: Logged Guynamedsue(100) Tiddlywinks(91) Youdecide(91)
just be honest & tell them that's why you bought it. Whenever i've had an internet / IP problem, "Yeah I know this might seem trivial to you, but honestly the only reason I pay $29.99 a month for your service is to play online games."
Aloraphynia
Friend Poster's IP: Logged Roflwafl(80) Aloraphynia(82) Rawrlrdawtz(4)
Posted: 5906 days ago
Edited: 5905 days ago
I call the store today, and needless to say he laughed at me when I told him about it and the suggestions that Blizzard had, he was all like this is a software issue, and it is isolated, I was like wtf are you talking about there are loads and loads about this same error on the tech support sites and such, and he told me that I was welcome to bring it in but he said it sounded like I ran through all the tests they would do, updating drivers etc. so yeah.. and I am past my 2 week return period... soo yeah.. I am stuck with it now. I shoulda saved my money and built one like I did my old one.. *grrr*
grumbelly
Dragon Council Poster's IP: Logged grumbelly(90) bezle(100) dintil(90) gramydashamy(90) ghettoimp(85) chopnbrocoli(85)
custom builds are always the way to go
Aloraphynia
Friend Poster's IP: Logged Roflwafl(80) Aloraphynia(82) Rawrlrdawtz(4)
Posted: 5903 days ago
Edited: 5903 days ago
Well for the money this *seemed* like the way to go, I have been running the game in opengl for the last 2 days and haven't had any errors... except when I tried to double box and play sound in each window.. then I got it on the second window. So yeah, I am thinking the low end 9300 is ok, but wow is just a tad much. .
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