Re: Something is wrong with my computer!



What happens if you don't play WoW?

"Jonathan" <Jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My PC has crashed on 3 seperate occasions now to a BSOD, all three while
playing WoW. It might be a hardware issue, but I wouldn't know. Here's
exactly what happened.

First crash in WoW, rebooted, no problems.

About a week later, today, game crashed again during WoW. Physical memory
dump never started, so I did a hard reset. After the intel pentium 4
screen,
it told me it wasn't booting from the right drive, so I went into the BIOS
and set it to boot from the hard drive, restarted but I got the same error
message. Went into the BIOS again and set it to default, computer rebooted
fine.

Several hours later, again while playing WoW I got another BSOD, I did
exactly what I mentioned above but this time it didn't reboot properly,
instead again I got the error about not booting from the correct drive. I
retried several times but then in the BIOS, I had a strange sort of crash,
my
BIOS went nuts and froze on me, but before it froze all the characters
became
corrupt and a bunch of random numbers appeared on the screen, it was
similar
to when an oldschool Nintendo game gets "busted" and all the game code
appears onscreen. I did a hard reset.

After restarting the computer several times, it boot up to Windows again.
I'm currently in the process of backing up my files because I have
absolutely
no idea what is causing this issue and am preparing in case I need to wipe
the hard drive or reinstall Windows or whatever.

Based off of this information, what do you think may be the problem, and
what do you recommend I do?


.



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