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memory problems and wow

NaeblissNaebliss Registered User regular
edited January 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
lately I have been having random crashes to desktop while playing wow. It's always because the game can't read some random file like durotar/house/chair. I read the wow support site and they suggested that I test my memory, so I ran memtest86 and it found errors. The strange thing is that it finds errors no matter what combination of memory sticks I leave in the computer. I even tried putting a single stick in a different slot and it still found errors. So what do you guys think? Bunches of bad memory sticks? Bad motherboard? Anything else I should do to test these components before I start replacing stuff?

Thanks in advance.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Do you have any fresh memory you can swap in?

    Also if you haven't already you could run the WoW repair utility.

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  • blakfeldblakfeld Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I'd say motherboard. Does it fail right off the bat or does it have to run a few passes?

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  • supabeastsupabeast Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    This could a bad CPU that’s corrupting data as it’s being accessed/processed. Get a friend to bring some RAM over and start swapping parts to see if the RAM is really bad.

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