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Tasty_Smurf_House
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need help running WoW
#5900840 - 07/26/06 01:26 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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installed it on roommates amd athlon 2600+ with 512 DDRram. i can play it around 5 minutes then comp freezes or restarts. help?
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deXtrous
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I suggest a better graphics card, an extra 512mb ram and mabye a better power supply to support that hardware.
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Ythan
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True restarts are usually a faulty power supply, but first you should right-click My Computer | Properties | Advanced | Startup and Recovery and make sure 'Automatically restart' is unchecked. If you start getting bluescreens instead of restarts you can look into cooling problems, bad RAM or bad drivers.
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makaveli8x8
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Re: need help running WoW [Re: Ythan]
#5900883 - 07/26/06 01:48 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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go to control panel, admin tools, then event viewer...when the computer restarts write down what time it is, then go to the event viewer and check all the tabs at that time within a few mins of course...for errors and such they will stick out.
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Tasty_Smurf_House
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Re: need help running WoW [Re: makaveli8x8]
#5901013 - 07/26/06 03:22 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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turned off auto restart and played again. didn't restart but froze. not blue screen but game freezes and cant alt+tab or cntrl+alt+del anything?
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Konnrade
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Have you contacted tech support?
They tend to be aware of known issues. They're certainly more qualified to help you than the shroomery is, assuming their tech support is better than say, microsoft's.
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makaveli8x8
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Re: need help running WoW [Re: Konnrade]
#5901958 - 07/26/06 01:49 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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did you do what i told you?
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Saucerfulofmoon
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Re: need help running WoW [Re: makaveli8x8]
#5905747 - 07/27/06 03:19 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Here, I shall help you.
Take the discs provided for installing (1-4)...
Procide to stack them upon eachother...
Take a hammer and smash them repeatedly.
You will thank me later.
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Tasty_Smurf_House
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i think it was just a heating problem because it's hot upstairs. i stuck a fan beside the tower, seems to be working now
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RuNE
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How many fans do you have inside the case?
Optimal would be one in the back, one in the front.
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RandalFlagg
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You don't want to start playing this game. It's like crack-cocaine for nerds.
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Konnrade
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Quote:
Tasty_Smurf_House said: i think it was just a heating problem because it's hot upstairs. i stuck a fan beside the tower, seems to be working now
Dusting out the components can really help with cooling issues.
I used to have a lot of overheating problems recently until I cleaned up the dust that had built up without me noticing it. It tended to cause seemingly spontaneous restarts as well as some critical video failures that required video driver restarts
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Tasty_Smurf_House
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Re: need help running WoW [Re: Konnrade]
#5921140 - 08/01/06 06:07 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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ya it's cooled down and it's working again. and yeah this game is war crack. fuckin it's awful addictive.
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