At my wits end with my PC and WoW
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- World Of Warcraft
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paeddings
March 30, 2011 5:21:27 PM
OK, here goes. I was having an issue with my PC shutting off at random while playing WoW, so I thought maybe it was a heating or PSU issue. SO, I decided to do an upgrade. I upgraded the motherboard to an MSI 890 FXA, the CPU to an AMD quad core 3.5 GHZ, the video card to an MSI radeon 5770, the RAM to 8 gigs, the PSU to a Corsair 750 watt, and also decided to upgrade the OS to windows 7 64 bit. For all intents and purposes, an overall new PC. Now the issue, it is STILL happening when I play World of Warcraft. It does not, however, happen when doing anything else, i.e. surfing the net, playing other games, movies, etc. I have ran Furmark for an hour and a half at max setting for the GPU, ran other tests, ran speedfan while playing (GPU temp never got above 51), tried turning down settings on the game, and it still happens. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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thegamersblog
March 30, 2011 5:30:34 PM
Does it shut off or does it restart? Sounds like a dying HD to me... The only other thing I've seen do this is bad memory. You can also check the event viewer to see if anything else is showing up there. Here is what I would do:
1. Pull out old memory and just use the new. Do this for a day and see what happens
2. Get a new HD clone it over. See if that works
It has to be one of these two. It's the only two original components in the machine.
1. Pull out old memory and just use the new. Do this for a day and see what happens
2. Get a new HD clone it over. See if that works
It has to be one of these two. It's the only two original components in the machine.
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paeddings
March 30, 2011 5:34:16 PM
paeddings said:
OK, here goes. I was having an issue with my PC shutting off at random while playing WoW, so I thought maybe it was a heating or PSU issue. SO, I decided to do an upgrade. I upgraded the motherboard to an MSI 890 FXA, the CPU to an AMD quad core 3.5 GHZ, the video card to an MSI radeon 5770, the RAM to 8 gigs, the PSU to a Corsair 750 watt, and also decided to upgrade the OS to windows 7 64 bit. For all intents and purposes, an overall new PC. Now the issue, it is STILL happening when I play World of Warcraft. It does not, however, happen when doing anything else, i.e. surfing the net, playing other games, movies, etc. I have ran Furmark for an hour and a half at max setting for the GPU, ran other tests, ran speedfan while playing (GPU temp never got above 51), tried turning down settings on the game, and it still happens. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Well, what it does the monitor goes into Auto power save mode. The fans in the PC still run, and the LED light on the motherboard is still on. Now, sometimes, it will let me play for hours, sometimes minutes. I have done a complete reinstall of WoW, and it is still happening. I have tried running it in DX9 and DX11 modes, and it still happens.
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paeddings
March 30, 2011 5:38:16 PM
paeddings
March 30, 2011 5:47:32 PM
paeddings
March 30, 2011 5:55:20 PM
paeddings
March 30, 2011 7:11:36 PM
Ive done a clean install, updated video card drivers, and run with little add ons (mainly DBM and Omen). When I look in the event log, it doesnt say anything, however, I dont necissarily know what I should be looking for. I just dont know what could be causing this. I wonder if there is a compatability issue somewhere?
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paeddings
March 30, 2011 7:26:41 PM
paeddings
March 30, 2011 7:33:10 PM
paeddings
March 30, 2011 9:46:41 PM
Uther39
March 30, 2011 10:08:11 PM
paeddings
March 30, 2011 10:16:47 PM
Howser
March 30, 2011 10:51:08 PM
ATi Radeon ... Kernel Power critical error ... see this all the time, especially PC reboot / hang.
Nearly always caused by driver issues, particularly after upgrading one from driver to the next, seems bits can get left behind.
Also windows 7 installs a basic ATi Radeon driver now ... I build a custom windows 7 install and remove this driver leaving only the generic VGA driver.
Uninstall and remove all traces of the ATi drivers then reinstall the latest driver.
Nearly always caused by driver issues, particularly after upgrading one from driver to the next, seems bits can get left behind.
Also windows 7 installs a basic ATi Radeon driver now ... I build a custom windows 7 install and remove this driver leaving only the generic VGA driver.
Uninstall and remove all traces of the ATi drivers then reinstall the latest driver.
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Anonymous
March 31, 2011 11:57:32 AM
Its Driver, are you using the latest driver, if i was you , go back to 10.10, best for wow!
use Driver sweeper to remove all traces of drivers from system.
1) download 10.10 from guru3d.com (undr ATI driver section)
2) Download Driver Sweeper from guru3d.com AND INSTALL
3) Uninstall ati drivers (everything including cat center)
4) boot into safe mode, run driver sweeper, check ATI and remove everything
5) MOST IMPORTANT_____REMOVE PC FROM INTERNET______MOST IMPORTANT
6) Reboot and install 10.10 drivers whilst still off internet
7) Reboot after install and test!
8) Profit!
use Driver sweeper to remove all traces of drivers from system.
1) download 10.10 from guru3d.com (undr ATI driver section)
2) Download Driver Sweeper from guru3d.com AND INSTALL
3) Uninstall ati drivers (everything including cat center)
4) boot into safe mode, run driver sweeper, check ATI and remove everything
5) MOST IMPORTANT_____REMOVE PC FROM INTERNET______MOST IMPORTANT
6) Reboot and install 10.10 drivers whilst still off internet
7) Reboot after install and test!
8) Profit!
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hooru
April 4, 2011 7:00:17 AM
rededed1976
April 4, 2011 6:49:48 PM
easymark26
April 4, 2011 9:36:11 PM
rededed1976
April 5, 2011 6:18:19 AM
lol.
Toms won't let you edit anymore.....
there is men't to be a '?' afterwards, but using the supplied information of Monitor going into auto sleep but the Pc's fans are still running and the Led's still going. Oh, and the fact that he's changed EVERYTHING else and reinstalled it's about the only thing left.
Toms won't let you edit anymore.....
there is men't to be a '?' afterwards, but using the supplied information of Monitor going into auto sleep but the Pc's fans are still running and the Led's still going. Oh, and the fact that he's changed EVERYTHING else and reinstalled it's about the only thing left.
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rededed1976 said:
lol.Toms won't let you edit anymore.....
there is men't to be a '?' afterwards, but using the supplied information of Monitor going into auto sleep but the Pc's fans are still running and the Led's still going. Oh, and the fact that he's changed EVERYTHING else and reinstalled it's about the only thing left.
Not if it's only happening with one game. More likely there is a specific driver/system files issue during some portion of the WoW graphics engine that kills the card. Card dies, monitor goes out, but system can stay running.
Any other games use the same engine as WoW? I think it's a unique one myself, but would be nice to find something else aside from WoW that will cause this on this system.
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Cored17
April 6, 2011 7:11:02 AM
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