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donco   04-01-2009 at 10:14:56 PM

So here’s my problem.

Saturday night, WoW (World of Warcraft) crashed and from that moment I wasn’t able to connect to the game anymore, it kept saying ‘’Unable to connect’’;;. However, I was able to play on my other computer just fine. I reinstalled the game twice since then but it didn’t change anything. However, I am now stuck on the realm (server) list page. I have tried everything, powercycled my modem and router, deleted , cache and Interface folders, opened my firewalls ports.

At first, I thought I might have a third-party program on my computer not letting me log on, but I plugged this computer to my router and it worked perfectly fine (does plugging it directly to the router mean that it’s not blocking any ports?). At some point, I thought it might have to do with my wireless card (I was getting some frequent disconnects and still getting some so I thought it could be the problem) but it doesn’t seem like it, I’ve successfully logged on some other games such as Crysis (multiplayer mode) and I also updated the drivers.

What could be the problem? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Laptop: HP DV5T, Intel WiFi 5100 AGN

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montyuk   04-02-2009 at 03:08:56 PM
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if you run an ethernet cable between the problem machine and the router (which sounds fine) does it improve?

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donco   04-03-2009 at 12:11:09 AM
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Yes it works perfecly

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montyuk   04-03-2009 at 01:05:50 AM
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i can see from googling your wifi card that theres some issues with the drivers / problems with weird irq settings / issues with wpa,

have you tried using the drivers windows uses on the initial install? you could try reverting the driver in device manager, is there a driver disk that the machine came with with the original version?

its interesting that other games work perfectly but wow doesnt want to,
i was thinking about going into safe mode and uninstalling the card in there, plus any other ghosts that might appear, the fact that other games work suggests its a problem with the game itself but you've already covered that by deleting the files, cached settings etc,

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donco   04-03-2009 at 01:58:40 AM
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I'll revert the drivers and see what happens. computer didn't come with any disks, i'll try running safe mode and uninstalling the card.

Yeah I also thought it was a problem with the game, but I'm actually able to play from this computer when I plug it to the router.

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