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KraidSaves · April 30th, 2006, 08:37 PM

Soon after I launch WoW my computer will just power off. I get a black screen and all my case fans turn off but the PC lights stay on. I've tried re-installed drivers and WoW but haven't fixed it. When I reboot I check cpu tempreture in BIOS and usually reads in the low 50's C. I don't know if that is high. This only happens when trying to play a game what could this be?!

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**Whir** · April 30th, 2006, 08:50 PM

Could be the video card going "no no, I'll go do something else now." Usually in a driver hang, the system stays powered.

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xelnanga · April 30th, 2006, 08:57 PM

Hmm.... maybe the 30 gig hd? If you have at least 10 gig of free hd, I wouldn't worry about that...but still how can you live with only 30 gig of hd??

I would also suggest running downgrading your copy of wow and then running repair...

You can downgrade your copy of wow by going to World of Warcraft/data/
Delete Patch.MPQ Run repair.exe found in the main folder The repair.exe will detect that there is a problem and asks if it should fix, click yes once it 'repaired' right click on wow.exe and click the version tab and make sure the version has changed.

KraidSaves · April 30th, 2006, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by xelnanga

Hmm.... maybe the 30 gig hd? If you have at least 10 gig of free hd, I wouldn't worry about that...but still how can you live with only 30 gig of hd??

I would also suggest running downgrading your copy of wow and then running repair...

You can downgrade your copy of wow by going to World of Warcraft/data/
Delete Patch.MPQ Run repair.exe found in the main folder The repair.exe will detect that there is a problem and asks if it should fix, click yes once it 'repaired' right click on wow.exe and click the version tab and make sure the version has changed.

This is I've already tried re-installing the whole thing so I don't know if running a repair would help any =/. I'd also like to know if 50-55c is too hot for a processor. This is usually the temp under load.

**Whir** · April 30th, 2006, 09:40 PM

That's warm, but acceptable for Pentiums, I think. Those should throttle anyway, not just kill power.

It almost sounds like a PSU problem to me. Like the video card is kicking up and kills it.

But when you say start up, where does it actually go down? Like right after you click the icon, or when you're logging in, or?

KraidSaves · April 30th, 2006, 11:17 PM

The computer would usually shut off just after I logged into WoW and the loading bar finished. It would load and get in the game for about 2 seconds before shuting down the comp but sometimes like now, it turns off as soon as the game title screen appears. I really think it could be something in WoW (files) but I don't understand how that could be if I reinstalled the game.

Here is one message I got on startup after a bad shutdown.
"World Of Warcraft/WTF/config.wtf ... first allocation unit is not valid. The entry will be truncated" something to that extent...

I just put some more grease on heatsink so I guess that's canceled out. So it's either corrupt WoW files (which I can't understand since I reinstalled) power supply, or the video card. I just don't know what it could be.

I'm doing the repair also, it's worth a try.

**Whir** · April 30th, 2006, 11:21 PM

I'd say give your RAM a check with memtest86.

I had a similar problem with WoW, where it would go for a while, then it would tell me that patch.mpq was corrupt, and halt the app.

It's not much of a lead, but it certainly sounds feasible given your situation and the errors you see.

There is a website out there that has a burnable ISO of a bootable CD with memtest86 on it. I wish I could remember it, but I can't. Just google "bootable memtest86" and you should find it quick enough.

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Snowcat78 · September 29th, 2008, 07:54 AM

Incredibly sorry to dredge up such an ancient thread, but I've recently been having the exact same problem, but with extras. WoW would shut down my computer just as described above, but a system restore would usually clear the issue up but it would return sometimes the next day, or a week later. Now I've reinstalled WoW several times, reformatted my entire computer several times, and I'm still having the issue.

Only now, after the latest reformat, Windows was doing it usual downloading updates etc, and after a I rebooted from on update as needed, now the computer shuts down as soon as the Welcome screen appears after the Windows load screen. I can't even get the damn computer up and running before it turns itself off.

It doesn't sound like a HardDrive problem, or a Motherboard problem, or a Power Supply problem. Video card drivers all up to date, infact, ALL drivers upto date. I've tried everything since this issue first came up some while ago now and nothing works permanatly.

It was just WoW, no other game or program would do it. Ever. Now Fricken windows does it too. Right when I thought I got it figured out too

Snowcat78 · September 29th, 2008, 07:57 AM

sorry, double post

Big_Daddy · September 29th, 2008, 11:16 AM

Run Memtest first.