buddha162

Hello,

I run vista home with 2 gigs of ram on a dual core intel pc. I play world of warcraft, and about a month ago I started getting blue-screen errors while in game. This happened occassionally at first, then became more and more frequent, until everytime I started WoW my computer seized up, showed blue-screen, and rebooted.

On the advice of some friends I removed one memory stick and ran the game; it was slow but blue-screen free. Figuring that the ram I removed was faulty, I purchased a new stick of ram (btw, it's ddr2) and for a month---problem solved!

But...it's happening again, the same exact thing. The only difference is sometimes my WoW just closes by itself, but more often I get the blue screen error.

Now I'm hearing about how it could be my mother board "corrupting" my RAM. I'm about to replace the older ram with a new one, since I think it's probably just cheap, no-brand memory that's run its course...but I have no clue when it comes to anything computer-related.

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated, and if more info is needed for an educated guess please let me know.

Thanks,
roger

vladimirb

Hey mate,
download Memtest here: http://www.memtest.org/
test RAM memory and see if they are compatible together...
Also about WOW, repair it [you have repair.exe file where you have installed WOW]...
Hope you will be able to play WOW again without BSODs... I know how you feel mate ^_^

wrench97

Tell us about your video card and power supply.

buddha162

With the memtest.org program, which one do I download? The ISO or binary or the other ones...sorry for being such a nub.

I'll run the wow repairer but I'm pretty sure this is hardware.

Thanks!

roger

buddha162

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
OKIA-550ATX (550W max)

FWIW I've been playing WoW for over a year w/o any problems (well, no blue screens at least).

-roger

wrench97

As power supplies age they lose efficiency especially generic units.
Also DDR2 Ram should be matched sticks for best results so you can't buy 1 now and 1 later and have a matched pair.
Next time it blue screens boot into the Bios and check your voltages and temps, then post them so we can have a look.

buddha162

Gotcha. Hasn't happened yet (thank god) but when it does I'll scribble it down.

Thing is, I switched one ram chip and it was problem solved for over a month. Wouldn't that indicate an innocent power supply? I'm hoping that it's ram...cuz that's about the only thing I can figure out how to replace in my pc :P

-roger

vladimirb

Download ISO .zip one and make bootable CD so you can boot from CD and test RAM memory...
Also, take out modules and clean connectors with rubber, and clean DIMM slots with brush from dust...