WoW causes a BSOD...need help

[wkabel23]

As an undead mage, I gave the pumpkin to the guy in the cellar and right as I get the XP points and such, my computer crashes and I get a blue screen that says: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and one of the messages is 0x000000000D1 (+/- a few zeros). My GF4 Ti4200 is using the latest drivers off of nvidia.com. I hear the sound chop but probably because it's crashing. I doubt it's a problem with my soundcard.

Has anyone heard of this problem?

It could be related to my NIC, although It's unlikely. In Bittorrent if I get too many incoming connections I get a BSOD and crash. I'm not sure if that would affect WoW at all.

Thanks for the help

 

[AdamSnow]

You could always try inserting the NIC into a different PCI slot... see if that makes a differnece.

 

[wkabel23]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
You could always try inserting the NIC into a different PCI slot... see if that makes a differnece.

Doing that now, and for some reason XP is recognizing the NIC and showing it as connected but not letting me access the internet. Hmm.

Anyways, does anyone else have any ideas about what the problem might be?

 

[wkabel23]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
You could always try inserting the NIC into a different PCI slot... see if that makes a differnece.

OK, got the internet working and unfortunately that wasn't the problem.

Is this more likely a memory, sound card, or video card problem?

 

[JohnAn2112]

Run memtest to see if it's your RAM.

 

[Bojangles139]

Originally posted by: wkabel23

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
You could always try inserting the NIC into a different PCI slot... see if that makes a differnece.

OK, got the internet working and unfortunately that wasn't the problem.

Is this more likely a memory, sound card, or video card problem?

prolly just a random blue screen and nothing serious. keep playing, and if it keeps happening, then you might have trouble.

equate it to a cough. everytime you cough doesn't mean you have a cold.

brandon

 

[Gurck]

ti4200? Use Driver Cleaner and try the 44.03s or the 43.45s.

 

[Cheetah8799]

There are quite a few people that have BSOD issues in WoW. Check the official forums, you'll find a tech support area that might have some info.

edit for link: link

 

[dbzwukan]

I used to always crash when I fly midway from Gadetzan to Ogrimmar. Turns out my wmo.MPQ is corrupted.
I had to copy it from another computer. and rename the original to wmo.bad

 

[wkabel23]

OK, I don't know if this would have anything to do with it, but under Device manager my Univerisal Serial Bus (USB) Controller does not have a driver. I reinstall it and tell XP to look for the driver automatically and it starts installing but then it says it can't locate usbechi.sys so i have to cancel the install.

 

[wkabel23]

Originally posted by: Bojangles139

Originally posted by: wkabel23

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
You could always try inserting the NIC into a different PCI slot... see if that makes a differnece.

OK, got the internet working and unfortunately that wasn't the problem.

Is this more likely a memory, sound card, or video card problem?

prolly just a random blue screen and nothing serious. keep playing, and if it keeps happening, then you might have trouble.

equate it to a cough. everytime you cough doesn't mean you have a cold.

brandon

The thing is, I can't keep playing. Whenver I enter the server it gives me a BSOD.

I'll try the other things posted.

 

[Stangs55]

That particular BSOD seems to be a consistent problem w/WoW as there are other users who are getting it (myself included). Search the Blizzard forums and you'll see there are many others w/your same problem. Hopefully Blizzard will get this fixed. It's really reallly annoying.

 

[wkabel23]

Went to a friend's house and completed the quest and moved around for a bit with no problem. Came home today, turned on my computer and now Windows doesn't recongnize my NIC.

 

[lchyi]

I had constant BSODs in WoW when it first came out. I found out it was the sound so I just turned off my sound for the entire game (been playing in silence since, Winamp has been my soundtrack). It runs fine now, and even runs fine when I turn the sound on but I'm still getting used to all the sights and sounds hehe. Try to just turn the sound off in the game, that might work.

 

[batmang]

its a sign that wow is teh devil!

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: batmang
its a sign that wow is teh devil!

 

[wkabel23]

Originally posted by: lchyi
I had constant BSODs in WoW when it first came out. I found out it was the sound so I just turned off my sound for the entire game (been playing in silence since, Winamp has been my soundtrack). It runs fine now, and even runs fine when I turn the sound on but I'm still getting used to all the sights and sounds hehe. Try to just turn the sound off in the game, that might work.

I see no way of adjusting sound options without actually being in game. Which I can't do.

I just got my NIC working and now I try to enter WoW and I crash even when I'm not completing the task but I can't move around at all. I'm in game for 1 second and then BSoD.

 

[wkabel23]

I actually did the nosound thing and that didn't fix the problem.

Thanks for the help though.

 

[wkabel23]

Could it be something with my page file? I have 512MB RAM and my page file is a custom size: 768-1536. Should I allow Windows to manage it or make it bigger/smaller?

Thanks.

EDIT: Here's a picture of that usb problem I was talking about where WinXP is unable to locate the file usbechi.sys. could this be the problem? I disabled it in that picture but before it was a yellow circle with a question mark in it.

 

[wkabel23]

bump

 

[quikah]

Your my rig link is broken.

Your USB problem shouldn't make a difference.

Do you have an Audigy? Do you have a P4? If so try disabling HT.

I had that crash in the beta, fixed it by reinstalling my soundcard drivers.

 

[wkabel23]

Fixed the link. I'll try disabling HT and I already reinstalled the latest Realtek AC97 drivers for my IC7.

 

[wkabel23]

I created a new character and haven't had any trouble. I'm debating whether or not to take up the quest that caused my comp to crash. Because of this, I'm guessing it's a bug in the game, unless there some game element (visual effec, sound or something) in Brill/surrounding areas that isn't in the first city.

 

[Sideswipe001]

Originally posted by: wkabel23
I created a new character and haven't had any trouble. I'm debating whether or not to take up the quest that caused my comp to crash. Because of this, I'm guessing it's a bug in the game, unless there some game element (visual effec, sound or something) in Brill/surrounding areas that isn't in the first city.

Did you delete the temp files?

I think it's the WTF folder. Search around the offical forums to look for the exact place. Personally, if it's just one character doing it, I think you got a corrupt file in that character's temp folder.

 

[wkabel23]

OK, I just completed a quest on another character and it gave me the same error. WTF?

wow, pretty sure it's nothing with my hardware now.