Vista - World of Warcraft w/ expansion the Burning Crusade

K, I did a clean install of Vista and updated everyting that needed to be
updated: the drivers, the graphic cards and sound cards. Now, when I try to
play wow, the game last for about 5 seconds and then the whole computer
screen goes black and makes a noise, then shuts down and restarts itself. And
when I log back into my pc, a warning pop-up appears and said that my pc had
an unexpected shutdown. Now my pc meets all the requirments, not to mention
above them. Just letting people know. What can be the cause of this or what
is the cause of this?

"Ruben904" <Ruben904@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> K, I did a clean install of Vista and updated everyting that needed to be
> updated: the drivers, the graphic cards and sound cards. Now, when I try
> to
> play wow, the game last for about 5 seconds and then the whole computer
> screen goes black and makes a noise, then shuts down and restarts itself.
> And
> when I log back into my pc, a warning pop-up appears and said that my pc
> had
> an unexpected shutdown. Now my pc meets all the requirments, not to
> mention
> above them. Just letting people know. What can be the cause of this or
> what
> is the cause of this?

A driver is most probably the reason for this. Can you re-produce it in any
other games?

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Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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World of Warcraft with Burning Crusade runs on my computer BUT it will crash
if I leave Outlook express opened. Everytime Outlook Express tries to check
email WoW will lock up. I do not get a reboot, just a lock up. I can force
the application to close and then re-run it. I have also noticed this if I
leave IE open to a website that auto refreshes. Make sure you close both of
these when you run WoW.

I am running on an Intel Core Duo CPU, Vista in 32 bit mode, Nvidia 8800 GTS
with drivers 100.59.

"Ruben904" wrote:

> K, I did a clean install of Vista and updated everyting that needed to be
> updated: the drivers, the graphic cards and sound cards. Now, when I try to
> play wow, the game last for about 5 seconds and then the whole computer
> screen goes black and makes a noise, then shuts down and restarts itself. And
> when I log back into my pc, a warning pop-up appears and said that my pc had
> an unexpected shutdown. Now my pc meets all the requirments, not to mention
> above them. Just letting people know. What can be the cause of this or what
> is the cause of this?

I have that exact same problem. I REALLY hope someone knows how to fix this?

"Ruben904" wrote:

> K, I did a clean install of Vista and updated everyting that needed to be
> updated: the drivers, the graphic cards and sound cards. Now, when I try to
> play wow, the game last for about 5 seconds and then the whole computer
> screen goes black and makes a noise, then shuts down and restarts itself. And
> when I log back into my pc, a warning pop-up appears and said that my pc had
> an unexpected shutdown. Now my pc meets all the requirments, not to mention
> above them. Just letting people know. What can be the cause of this or what
> is the cause of this?

Do you happen to use Zone Alarm?

Zone Alarm was causing this problem for me pre-vista. And it is only by
accident or luck that I figured this out. I reinstalled the OS and then
installed one program a day, not one program at a time. First day, no
security software, no problems. Second day, install Zone Alarm and within 2
hours the game crashed twice and the screen went down to the task bar 5 times.

I use Kaspersky now, pre and post Vista and no problems.


"Ruben904" wrote:

> K, I did a clean install of Vista and updated everyting that needed to be
> updated: the drivers, the graphic cards and sound cards. Now, when I try to
> play wow, the game last for about 5 seconds and then the whole computer
> screen goes black and makes a noise, then shuts down and restarts itself. And
> when I log back into my pc, a warning pop-up appears and said that my pc had
> an unexpected shutdown. Now my pc meets all the requirments, not to mention
> above them. Just letting people know. What can be the cause of this or what
> is the cause of this?

i got this exact same problem! i bought this brand new laptop three days ago.
that very night, after setting everything up, including the internet, i
started to dowload WoW. after i finished with the 1st set of cds, i started
b.c., downloaded all the patches (cancel or allow over and over and over
again), started to play, then it crashed. i tried to log in again, played for
like 30 seconds, then it crashed again. i got the same error message too. i
decided to uninstall, then reinstall WoW, and it didn't help at all. so i did
a reboot and restored all factory settings. WoW was completely gone, all my
settings were gone... i thought it just needed a clean slate. still nothing.
i got this laptop so my husband and i could play WoW together and i haven't
gotten any play time in all weekend because i'm trying to make this thing
work. not only won't WoW work, but i can't connect to the secured Linksys
connection we have set up for the computers in our house. i can connect just
fine to anything that's not secured though. what's going on and can it be
fixed without spending a ton of money?

"Ruben904" wrote:

> K, I did a clean install of Vista and updated everyting that needed to be
> updated: the drivers, the graphic cards and sound cards. Now, when I try to
> play wow, the game last for about 5 seconds and then the whole computer
> screen goes black and makes a noise, then shuts down and restarts itself. And
> when I log back into my pc, a warning pop-up appears and said that my pc had
> an unexpected shutdown. Now my pc meets all the requirments, not to mention
> above them. Just letting people know. What can be the cause of this or what
> is the cause of this?

"Ruben904" <Ruben904@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:59D84D62-0A5A-4CE2-BB62-251EA3B2CBBE@microsoft.com...
> K, I did a clean install of Vista and updated everyting that needed to be
> updated: the drivers, the graphic cards and sound cards. Now, when I try
> to
> play wow, the game last for about 5 seconds and then the whole computer
> screen goes black and makes a noise, then shuts down and restarts itself.
> And
> when I log back into my pc, a warning pop-up appears and said that my pc
> had
> an unexpected shutdown. Now my pc meets all the requirments, not to
> mention
> above them. Just letting people know. What can be the cause of this or
> what
> is the cause of this?

Just for the record, I've been very regularly playing WoW with expansion
under Vista 32 and 64 pretty much since launch date. Have installed all new
drivers as and when they've been released, including betas, and my
experiences have been great. Not a single crash.

Though there has been a noticeable degrade in performance, but nothing
game-breaking, and with each new driver release, this seems to improve.

nVidia nForce 4 mobo
nVidia GeForce 7600 256mb video

That's pretty much all I've installed drivers for. I'm forced to use the
nForce onboard sound, as my previous SoundBlaster sounded horrible under the
current Vista drivers.

I've been running it for about three weeks with no problems. Then, suddenly
I can't keep it up for more than a few minutes. Game freezes, blue screen of
death, black screen of death, the works. I deleted the WTF and Interface
folders (ouch, my mods) as advised, to no avail. I wonder if a driver has
somehow been corrupted, but the HP system diagnosis and the driver updaters
say no.

Also ran into a "not responding" error in Neverwinter Nights 2.

"EJ" wrote:

>
> "Ruben904" <Ruben904@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:59D84D62-0A5A-4CE2-BB62-251EA3B2CBBE@microsoft.com...
> > K, I did a clean install of Vista and updated everyting that needed to be
> > updated: the drivers, the graphic cards and sound cards. Now, when I try
> > to
> > play wow, the game last for about 5 seconds and then the whole computer
> > screen goes black and makes a noise, then shuts down and restarts itself.
> > And
> > when I log back into my pc, a warning pop-up appears and said that my pc
> > had
> > an unexpected shutdown. Now my pc meets all the requirments, not to
> > mention
> > above them. Just letting people know. What can be the cause of this or
> > what
> > is the cause of this?
>
> Just for the record, I've been very regularly playing WoW with expansion
> under Vista 32 and 64 pretty much since launch date. Have installed all new
> drivers as and when they've been released, including betas, and my
> experiences have been great. Not a single crash.
>
> Though there has been a noticeable degrade in performance, but nothing
> game-breaking, and with each new driver release, this seems to improve.
>
> nVidia nForce 4 mobo
> nVidia GeForce 7600 256mb video
>
> That's pretty much all I've installed drivers for. I'm forced to use the
> nForce onboard sound, as my previous SoundBlaster sounded horrible under the
> current Vista drivers.
>
>
>