Vista - WoW and the network crash/reboot

I am truly not sure what to classify this under so I am putting it under
games as it only seems to happen while playing World of Warcraft. (I WIll
also leave something under their Vista Beta frorum.)

I am currently using Vista releasee 5744 on an AMD 3000+; Asus A7N8X
(Nvidia2) MB (with onboard E-Net port); 2gigs RAM; Gforce 6600; SB Audigy 2ZS
PC with all the latest Beta drivers.

For the most part the PC works great. I turned off Glass cause I was having
some memory issues with DVD burning and otehr stuff and wanted to eliminate
the display as the cause..

WHAT IS THE ISSUE: So the problem I am having is that when I play WoW and
upon completing a quest (can take up to 5 seconds to actually occur, but the
common factor is clicking quest complete and hearing the reward sound) one of
two things happens:

The first is that my internet connection goes down. For all intent and
purposes my network is fully functional which I can test by going to any of
the 6 other PCs connected and surf the web. On the game PC I canot browse
the web or the internal network. I cannot Release/Renew and IP or even pink
the loop back. Its just dead.

The second thing that can happen is that the monitor goes black, the PC
makes a weird humming sound and then reboots itself.

The only consistant thing is that it ALWAYS occurs just after I have
completed quest. Now it is not every quest cause I can go for hours
sometimes and not have a problem, then once it happens it won't stop. The
only think I can think of is that it is when the server is full (which I can
tell cause of the queue that happens when I have to log in each time), but
that is not even that consistent because after a whil with the issue the
queue goes away buthe problem doesn't.

Not sure if anyone else has had a similar problem, but I wanted to get this
out there in case someone might have a similar situation.

Quick note that I went out to the WoW site (should have done that first) and
found this:
Are you getting disconnected or is the game crashing when you turn in a quest?
http://www.blizzard.com/support/wow/?id=aww01679p

"carpat" wrote:

> I am truly not sure what to classify this under so I am putting it under
> games as it only seems to happen while playing World of Warcraft. (I WIll
> also leave something under their Vista Beta frorum.)
>
> I am currently using Vista releasee 5744 on an AMD 3000+; Asus A7N8X
> (Nvidia2) MB (with onboard E-Net port); 2gigs RAM; Gforce 6600; SB Audigy 2ZS
> PC with all the latest Beta drivers.
>
> For the most part the PC works great. I turned off Glass cause I was having
> some memory issues with DVD burning and otehr stuff and wanted to eliminate
> the display as the cause..
>
> WHAT IS THE ISSUE: So the problem I am having is that when I play WoW and
> upon completing a quest (can take up to 5 seconds to actually occur, but the
> common factor is clicking quest complete and hearing the reward sound) one of
> two things happens:
>
> The first is that my internet connection goes down. For all intent and
> purposes my network is fully functional which I can test by going to any of
> the 6 other PCs connected and surf the web. On the game PC I canot browse
> the web or the internal network. I cannot Release/Renew and IP or even pink
> the loop back. Its just dead.
>
> The second thing that can happen is that the monitor goes black, the PC
> makes a weird humming sound and then reboots itself.
>
> The only consistant thing is that it ALWAYS occurs just after I have
> completed quest. Now it is not every quest cause I can go for hours
> sometimes and not have a problem, then once it happens it won't stop. The
> only think I can think of is that it is when the server is full (which I can
> tell cause of the queue that happens when I have to log in each time), but
> that is not even that consistent because after a whil with the issue the
> queue goes away buthe problem doesn't.
>
> Not sure if anyone else has had a similar problem, but I wanted to get this
> out there in case someone might have a similar situation.

I actually had filed this as a bug during beta testing of Vista.

It was a result of Nvidia's driver. I have yet to experience this issue in
Vista x64 build 6000 (RTM).


"carpat" <carpat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7B8E007D-B961-41C0-8A9C-B0987D0F9BA3@microsoft.com...
> Quick note that I went out to the WoW site (should have done that first)
> and
> found this:
> Are you getting disconnected or is the game crashing when you turn in a
> quest?
> http://www.blizzard.com/support/wow/?id=aww01679p
>
> "carpat" wrote:
>
>> I am truly not sure what to classify this under so I am putting it under
>> games as it only seems to happen while playing World of Warcraft. (I WIll
>> also leave something under their Vista Beta frorum.)
>>
>> I am currently using Vista releasee 5744 on an AMD 3000+; Asus A7N8X
>> (Nvidia2) MB (with onboard E-Net port); 2gigs RAM; Gforce 6600; SB Audigy
>> 2ZS
>> PC with all the latest Beta drivers.
>>
>> For the most part the PC works great. I turned off Glass cause I was
>> having
>> some memory issues with DVD burning and otehr stuff and wanted to
>> eliminate
>> the display as the cause..
>>
>> WHAT IS THE ISSUE: So the problem I am having is that when I play WoW and
>> upon completing a quest (can take up to 5 seconds to actually occur, but
>> the
>> common factor is clicking quest complete and hearing the reward sound)
>> one of
>> two things happens:
>>
>> The first is that my internet connection goes down. For all intent and
>> purposes my network is fully functional which I can test by going to any
>> of
>> the 6 other PCs connected and surf the web. On the game PC I canot
>> browse
>> the web or the internal network. I cannot Release/Renew and IP or even
>> pink
>> the loop back. Its just dead.
>>
>> The second thing that can happen is that the monitor goes black, the PC
>> makes a weird humming sound and then reboots itself.
>>
>> The only consistant thing is that it ALWAYS occurs just after I have
>> completed quest. Now it is not every quest cause I can go for hours
>> sometimes and not have a problem, then once it happens it won't stop.
>> The
>> only think I can think of is that it is when the server is full (which I
>> can
>> tell cause of the queue that happens when I have to log in each time),
>> but
>> that is not even that consistent because after a whil with the issue the
>> queue goes away buthe problem doesn't.
>>
>> Not sure if anyone else has had a similar problem, but I wanted to get
>> this
>> out there in case someone might have a similar situation.