dammit..why me.

[IH8PCproblems]

I recently built my second PC...i play World of Warcraft...i wanted to play an online game for once on somthing greater than a Dial up and a p3 300mhz...so anyway i built this thing and its not too bad...(see bottom) anyhow im playing the game warcraft and everythings running good its pumped up and im feeling it ...then the damn thing decides to crash...i get critical error...says ram cannot be "read" and it did it another time...ram cannot be "written" saying somthjing about error "136" blah blah ect buncha PC language icdont understand in the box.... itll show up in a World of Warcraft error box ...and in a windows error box...and last night i tried to exit the game and the damn computer restarted!...what trickery is this?! ...Now I can play the game for hours somtimes with NO problems...somtimes it gets angry and decides to freak out...now i have another game it ried out...Joint Operations...a cheap game that came with my video card...i play that...and it works fine...no problems...and world of warcraft only freaks once in awhile but it still sucks because this is suppose to be new stuff...all my stuff is plugged in good i checked all that...I just dont know...maybe one of those ram checking devices...? err im not too smart when it comes to this stuff...so..thank god for all of you i been reading through the forums and i know someone will know somthing that I dont...help a online game junky get his electronic crack fix.

 

[Melchior]

Your RAM is bad. Simple right?
RMA it or return it. Do a Memtest 86 for a few hours to confirm.

 

[bowserjs]

Melchior sounds right, run memtest, i would do it longer then a few hours though, perhaps a full days worth

 

[Budman]

Antec case w/300 watt power supply/4 fans

That power supply seems kinda weak for the system you're running.

 

[boomerang]

And if the RAM checks out, then start thinking Power Supply. You've barely got enough to run that system with 300W.

Edit: Budman got it first.

 

[bigboxes]

Originally posted by: boomerang
And if the RAM checks out, then start thinking Power Supply. You've barely got enough to run that system with 300W.

Yup. Run memtest for a while. If OK then I would suspect it's the PSU.

 

[pclstyle]

i suspect that you haven't yet found the read/write lvl 47 item in tanaris

 

[Cheesetogo]

Originally posted by: Budman

Antec case w/300 watt power supply/4 fans

That power supply seems kinda weak for the system you're running.

That psu is plenty, it's a good brand as well, so for his system it's fine. YOu should relise that 300 is plenty. Dell puts 250watt psu's in their 8400, which can run the x850xt.

 

[IH8PCproblems]

ya know i played the game all day today...ran fine...got a different critcal error when i was ready to log off...i think the game is screwy...what item are you talking about a corrupt item?
i run other games they run ok ... this is strange not one problem today. cept that one error which was somthing totally different

 

[airfoil]

Originally posted by: IH8PCproblems
I recently built my second PC...i play World of Warcraft...i wanted to play an online game for once on somthing greater than a Dial up and a p3 300mhz...(

So a PIII 300 MHz PC was made? I could have sworn that was the age of the PII. :laugh:

Jokes aside, I would RMA the RAM right away - and look at replacing the PSU with with one that offers a 400W capability.

 

[nealh]

300w antec is not real strong on the 12v rail which is important for the cpu and videocard...while you do not have o/cing..I still would considera newr cpu...I know my Athlon XP 1700@1900...was able to clock same speed with lower voltage with Antec 480W vs 300w..with same videocard..9700pro

I agree ram MAYBE an issue..if it test ok on memtest 86..I et the psu is the issue..

if it is an older antec 300w...then repalce it..I have noticed Antec has update voltage on various rails..I had an older 480w and these seem to have bumped the 12v rail a bit..so a newer 300w maybe better than my older 3yr 300w antec

But it did prove a pus with more juice makes a difference..my OCZ 520 w is much better for stability vs my Antec 480w true power

 

[Patrick Wolf]

Make sure you get all the updates for the game. Or since it's online you might have to have the latest updates just to play it, I'm not sure.

 

[Amaroque]

I have to agree with the other replies. RAM, and PSU If you have access to a different PSU for a short while, that would give you a lot of answers.

 

[Cook1]

Actually, I play EQ2 now and then and they have MAJOR memory leaks. I'll get issues like that on the past three rigs I've upgraded to (which has been in the last two months). Visit WoW tech boards, see if this is a common issue.

 

[0010010110]

Originally posted by: nealh
300w antec is not real strong on the 12v rail which is important for the cpu and videocard...while you do not have o/cing..I still would considera newr cpu...I know my Athlon XP 1700@1900...was able to clock same speed with lower voltage with Antec 480W vs 300w..with same videocard..9700pro

I agree ram MAYBE an issue..if it test ok on memtest 86..I et the psu is the issue..

if it is an older antec 300w...then repalce it..I have noticed Antec has update voltage on various rails..I had an older 480w and these seem to have bumped the 12v rail a bit..so a newer 300w maybe better than my older 3yr 300w antec

But it did prove a pus with more juice makes a difference..my OCZ 520 w is much better for stability vs my Antec 480w true power

Antec don't make a 300w TruePower, the psu he has is an Antec SmartPower 300w which unfortunately only has 15A on the 12V rail.

Still, run a memtest first just to make sure it isn't the ram.

 

[Amaroque]

Originally posted by: 0010010110

Antec don't make a 300w TruePower, the psu he has is an Antec SmartPower 300w which unfortunately only has 15A on the 12V rail.

Still, run a memtest first just to make sure it isn't the ram.

The only problem is that a weak, or fluctuating PSU can make RAM show up as faulty also.

In any case, I'd still put a better PSU in there. The True430 is Antecs best price/performance PSU. IIRC I've seen it for like $60 online.

 

[nealh]

I know they do not make a 300w truepower...my 300w...is 3yrs old+...was not capable of as much as I expected...which is why I suggested another psu like others..still could be a ram issue but the 300w was great in its day...but for todays system...

I just though maybe Antec had a new one out with better 12v rail...15A is skimpy for ctodays cpu/videocard IMHO

 

[0010010110]

Originally posted by: nealh
I know they do not make a 300w truepower...my 300w...is 3yrs old+...was not capable of as much as I expected...which is why I suggested another psu like others..still could be a ram issue but the 300w was great in its day...but for todays system...

I just though maybe Antec had a new one out with better 12v rail...15A is skimpy for ctodays cpu/videocard IMHO

That's what their TruePower PSU's are for.

 

[Wolfshanze]

i wanted to play an online game for once on somthing greater than a Dial up and a p3 300mhz

Call me crazy... they made 300MHz Pentium III's? I thought the slowest ones were faster then that... 300MHz sounds like Pentium II.

I know I'm nitpicking... I'm bored.

 

[LED]

LOL ...it might not even be an Antec PSU as all his sig states is that it's an Antec case w/300 watt power supply/4 fans !...that initself could be the problem as others mentioned

 

[IHYLN]

hate to tell ya but the game is really buggy. The client is the biggest POS I've ever seen.

 

[nealh]

I used to think Antec were great psu's but I have changed my mind..I think the OCZ 520w Powerstream I have is much better unit than my Antec 480w TruePower which is brand new and rma replacmement for a 480w that blew(I will say the rma support from antec was awesome)

But the OCZ is much more stable and allows a better o/c on my system..and I do not think it is the 40w difference

 

[IH8PCproblems]

thanks alot for the replies...i think my PSU is hmm a few years old...i said that to my friend when we were building the thing i said ya know maybe this power supply wont cut it...he said it should be ok ... i dunno i think im going to order one up...see if that helps...and run that memory test ...so I guess a power supply could cause the ram to go batty huh? its always somthing ya know...maybe ill try OCZ?

 

[IH8PCproblems]

freaked out and picked up a 430 watt true power supply...antec. i overpaid for it but im going nuts if that doesnt work then ram i suppose.... needed a better PSU anyhow from what ive been reading...i kinda figured it wasnt enough to begin with...thanks for all the input and help it means alot to me =D well see now if this works!

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: IH8PCproblems
freaked out and picked up a 430 watt true power supply...antec. i overpaid for it but im going nuts if that doesnt work then ram i suppose.... needed a better PSU anyhow from what ive been reading...i kinda figured it wasnt enough to begin with...thanks for all the input and help it means alot to me =D well see now if this works!

While you're waiting on your psu you can check out your ram.

Go here http://www.memtest.org/ and grab memtest,you can get a bootable floppy or there's even a ISO that you can burn to a cdr & boot off your cd if you dont have a floppy.

Good luck.