running 1 wow, works fine. but when i run 2 crashes to reboot.

[ozzy1133]

has anyone ever encountered this problem? if so what piece of hardware caused the problem? i already changed out my RAM to corsair im starting to believe its either my MB or psu.

[davedontmind]

So when you run a second copy your PC just reboots?

Windows XP defaults to rebooting for a lot of crashes, but you can re-enable the "blue screen of death" instead, which may give more detailed information allowing you to home in on the problem.

Right-click "My Computer" -> properties -> advanced -> startup and recovery -> uncheck "automatically restart".

(not sure about other flavours of Windows).

Next time you get the problem you'll probably see the blue screen instead of just a reboot - something near the top in amongst all the tech gobbeldy-gook might give a clue as to the problem area - seeing that you've replaced RAM I'd suspect graphics card/drivers, or maybe motherboard.

[keyclone]

could be conflicting drivers. try running your single wow and do this:

go to options/video/resolution and make sure 'windowed mode' is CHECKED
go to options/sound and make sure 'sound in background' is UNCHECKED
go to options/sound and make sure 'use hardware' is UNCHECKED

apply the changes... exit wow (this forces the settings to write to disk)

now try to restart more then one instance and see of that helps.

if not, it could be memory

[ozzy1133]

So when you run a second copy your PC just reboots?

Windows XP defaults to rebooting for a lot of crashes, but you can re-enable the "blue screen of death" instead, which may give more detailed information allowing you to home in on the problem.

Right-click "My Computer" -> properties -> advanced -> startup and recovery -> uncheck "automatically restart".

(not sure about other flavours of Windows).

Next time you get the problem you'll probably see the blue screen instead of just a reboot - something near the top in amongst all the tech gobbeldy-gook might give a clue as to the problem area - seeing that you've replaced RAM I'd suspect graphics card/drivers, or maybe motherboard.

i have already done uncheck on reboot for windows errors, and it still jumps to the reboot

[ozzy1133]

could be conflicting drivers. try running your single wow and do this:

go to options/video/resolution and make sure 'windowed mode' is CHECKED
go to options/sound and make sure 'sound in background' is UNCHECKED
go to options/sound and make sure 'use hardware' is UNCHECKED

apply the changes... exit wow (this forces the settings to write to disk)

now try to restart more then one instance and see of that helps.

if not, it could be memory

those are my default options i play on.. and it still crashes. and i just bought new memory to replace the one i bought before it.

[Meeo]

Run a mem test, could possible be a memory issue, if loading data into faulty sections of your ram it would cause a crash.

[ozzy1133]

any free ram tests out there?

[ozzy1133]

there were no errors in my msinfo32 but i did find this error:

12/10/2008 8:00 PM Windows Error Reporting Fault bucket 109026869, type 5
Event Name: PCA2
Response: None
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: 5.05.54.00_ntune_winxp_international.exe
&# x000a;P2: 4.0.100.1190
P3: unknown
P4: NVIDIA nTune Performance Application
P5: NVIDIA Corporation
P6: 1
P7: 201
P8: 
P9: 
P10: 

Attached files:
C:\Users\riley\AppData\Local \Temp\{88cc53ac-c2db-4e48-80bd-107adf9e7ba1}\appcompat.txt
&#x000d ;
These files may be available here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Wind ows\WER\ReportArchive\Report0e9fd73b

[ozzy1133]

i just ran a memory test and no errors were found.. any other ideas?

[pengwynman]

i just ran a memory test and no errors were found.. any other ideas?

what specs are we looking at for this system?
does it crash as soon as you try to open the second WoW, or does it take a few minutes?