- Nov 18, 2004
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I believe i've posted about this before but can't remember. I'm pretty damn good when it comes to computers but this problem seems to be escaping me. I'll go ahead and list the issues i've been experiencing and what i've done to correct them. Hopefully someone's had similar issues. When WoW first came out I played for hours on end and had absolutely no issues. I got bored because there was nothing left for me to achieve and quit. When I came back is when I starting getting all my issues. The only thing that had changed on my computer since the original time of play was an upgrade to a 22inch widescreen lcd.
I'll be playing the game and it'll be running fine and then BAM!...the ground will disappear. It will look as if i'm walking in the sky. The buildings will usually vanish and allow me to see through the walls...but they will still be there. The game will become a choppy and I can still move around if I can guess where the entrance/walls are. Eventually the game will just freeze up forcing me to quit. When I get back to my desktop the resolution is now at 640x480 and cannot be changed. The Nvidia control panel option is no longer there as if the graphics card wasn't even installed. One would automatically think it's a graphics card issue as I did but alas...it doesn't look that way. This is what i've done in my troubleshooting. These are things I tried doing on my own and things blizzard support has topics on...
I tried different video drivers to no avail
I bought a new graphics card to no avail
My motherboard went out on me and I had a replacement sent from Asus to no avail
I've flashed my bios to the most recent one to no avail
I got a new power supply when the mobo went out to no avail
I've scanned my systems for viruses/spyware/malware to no avail
I've uninstalled/reinstalled the game to no avail
I've reloaded the game patches to no avail
Well that's what I did last time before I quit the game for a second time. Well I just got back into it and the problems are still there. This only happens with this game. Granted I don't play many other PC games such as this so can't really say for sure if it's isolated to this game. After installed the most recent patch I get the aforementioned problems as well as a new set of errors. The most common one is "insufficient resources to perform the specific request" and is usually attributed to the files "data/patch.mpq" and "data/common.mpq" Well according to blizzard support one of the possibilities for these issues is failing memory and instructs the user to use Microsofts memory tester. Now here comes the fun part...
I run this test and it reports 300,000+ errors on dimm 0 and none on dimm 1. So I have a bad stick right? Wrong. I swapped the stick places and the errors are still being reported on only dimm 0. Which means the problem is with the slot. Well when I exit the bios all of a sudden my system doesn't post! I took the memory out to see if the mobo would give me error beeps and it did so the mobo is still somewhat functional. Finally after some troubleshooting I found out that as long as nothing is in the first 2 slots on the mobo the system will boot. So I have 2x 512 in the #2 blue and the #2 black slots. So while the system sees 1gig it obviously won't be running in dual channel. I run the memory test again and failures all around. Only this time when I check the error log it only posts the errors and doesn't give me a readout for each stick. Kinda like it's saying there's only one stick it's testing. Doesn't even name is dimm 0, dimm 1, etc.
So now my system is up and running with 1 gig in the wrong slots, the first 2 slots apparentely won't allow the system to boot, and the problems with WoW are still there. I'm hoping that possibly someone has had similar issues and can give me some feedback. Obviously it's looking like another bad mobo. I'm just not sure if it's not something else as well. Two bad mobo's in the same system smells funny. Now there's always the possibility that Asus sent me back my bad mobo cause they deemed it ok...i'll be checking on that later tonight. I don't have any extra memory so there goes the possibility of checking those. However if they work in the last two slots but not in the first two, signs would point to the mobo.
So after your wipe the blood out of your eyes from reading all that, hopefully some of you have some thoughts on how to proceed. However it's looking like the obvious bad mobo again. Just not sure if that's what's causing the WoW issue either. Last but not least now when I finish burning a disc sometimes my screen bsod's on me no matter what driver I use. All these problems usually would fall on the mobo cause if not, somebody's fvcking with me cause there's no way all these issues could just be happening.
System specs:
Amd 3200+
Asus A8V Deluxe
2x 512 corsair value
7800gs Nvidia
Audigy 2 zs
Ultra x connect 500w ps
CM Stacker (like this matters)
Lite-On Dvd-rom
Nec 3500a Burner
I'll be playing the game and it'll be running fine and then BAM!...the ground will disappear. It will look as if i'm walking in the sky. The buildings will usually vanish and allow me to see through the walls...but they will still be there. The game will become a choppy and I can still move around if I can guess where the entrance/walls are. Eventually the game will just freeze up forcing me to quit. When I get back to my desktop the resolution is now at 640x480 and cannot be changed. The Nvidia control panel option is no longer there as if the graphics card wasn't even installed. One would automatically think it's a graphics card issue as I did but alas...it doesn't look that way. This is what i've done in my troubleshooting. These are things I tried doing on my own and things blizzard support has topics on...
I tried different video drivers to no avail
I bought a new graphics card to no avail
My motherboard went out on me and I had a replacement sent from Asus to no avail
I've flashed my bios to the most recent one to no avail
I got a new power supply when the mobo went out to no avail
I've scanned my systems for viruses/spyware/malware to no avail
I've uninstalled/reinstalled the game to no avail
I've reloaded the game patches to no avail
Well that's what I did last time before I quit the game for a second time. Well I just got back into it and the problems are still there. This only happens with this game. Granted I don't play many other PC games such as this so can't really say for sure if it's isolated to this game. After installed the most recent patch I get the aforementioned problems as well as a new set of errors. The most common one is "insufficient resources to perform the specific request" and is usually attributed to the files "data/patch.mpq" and "data/common.mpq" Well according to blizzard support one of the possibilities for these issues is failing memory and instructs the user to use Microsofts memory tester. Now here comes the fun part...
I run this test and it reports 300,000+ errors on dimm 0 and none on dimm 1. So I have a bad stick right? Wrong. I swapped the stick places and the errors are still being reported on only dimm 0. Which means the problem is with the slot. Well when I exit the bios all of a sudden my system doesn't post! I took the memory out to see if the mobo would give me error beeps and it did so the mobo is still somewhat functional. Finally after some troubleshooting I found out that as long as nothing is in the first 2 slots on the mobo the system will boot. So I have 2x 512 in the #2 blue and the #2 black slots. So while the system sees 1gig it obviously won't be running in dual channel. I run the memory test again and failures all around. Only this time when I check the error log it only posts the errors and doesn't give me a readout for each stick. Kinda like it's saying there's only one stick it's testing. Doesn't even name is dimm 0, dimm 1, etc.
So now my system is up and running with 1 gig in the wrong slots, the first 2 slots apparentely won't allow the system to boot, and the problems with WoW are still there. I'm hoping that possibly someone has had similar issues and can give me some feedback. Obviously it's looking like another bad mobo. I'm just not sure if it's not something else as well. Two bad mobo's in the same system smells funny. Now there's always the possibility that Asus sent me back my bad mobo cause they deemed it ok...i'll be checking on that later tonight. I don't have any extra memory so there goes the possibility of checking those. However if they work in the last two slots but not in the first two, signs would point to the mobo.
So after your wipe the blood out of your eyes from reading all that, hopefully some of you have some thoughts on how to proceed. However it's looking like the obvious bad mobo again. Just not sure if that's what's causing the WoW issue either. Last but not least now when I finish burning a disc sometimes my screen bsod's on me no matter what driver I use. All these problems usually would fall on the mobo cause if not, somebody's fvcking with me cause there's no way all these issues could just be happening.
System specs:
Amd 3200+
Asus A8V Deluxe
2x 512 corsair value
7800gs Nvidia
Audigy 2 zs
Ultra x connect 500w ps
CM Stacker (like this matters)
Lite-On Dvd-rom
Nec 3500a Burner