World of Warcraft Problems

Incut

Hi everyone, i decided to come to this forum to get some help because blizzard wont help me. Anyway, this is a long story but ill explain it in as much detail as i can, so here goes :

About 3 or 4 months ago the 2.0 patch came out for WoW ("World of warcraft" for you that dont know) and so i kept getting errors when trying to update it, unfortunatly i cant remember them now but anyway, now the burning crusade is out, that dident work either and i kept getting :

The patch "MPQs-1\UpdateBaseline\Data#common.MPQ\CHARACTER\Dwarf\Male\DwarfMale.m2~Patch(Data#model,1405072)" could not be applied. (CRC mismatch: expected 0xcbf910c2, actual 0x400dfae2.) If this problem persists, please contact Blizzard Technical Support. (BNUpdate::PTCApply)

and

An error was detected while verifying the contents of the file "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Data\common.MPQ". There may be a problem with your system, or with the drive at C:\. You can attempt to install again. If this problem persists, please contact Blizzard Technical Support.

and alot of others but all about MPQ corrupted files and that they could not be closed etc.

I have tried the option of putting the disk contents onto my hard drive but had no luck, and ive tried pretty much everything on the forum, with no luck. A few people on WoW also have this problem and maybe someone could help us out.

Going back to WoW (The Original) It always frooze on Terrain.MPQ and then i started to get a variety of different errors like :

An error was detected while verifying the contents of the file "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Data\common.MPQ". There may be a problem with your system, or with the drive at C:\. You can attempt to install again. If this problem persists, please contact Blizzard Technical Support.

And sometimes instead of Common.MPQ it was sometimes terrain and sound and some others.

Like i said if anyone has an info please reply and also if you need more information then please reply... ill also post my spec if needed but i dont think that is the problem because i have :

2GB of RAM
Geforce Nvidia 7800 GS Graphics Card (Drivers upto date)
3.40GHz of CPU

This is (i personally think) files conflicting with each other, because when i first got WoW it installed real quick with no problems and patched up fine (Which was about 1 year ago)

I have reformatted my PC and wiped my hard drive etc. but with no luck. and my disks are very clean and i have 2 copies of wow anyway so the disks are fine. Thanks for reading.

pseudonym

Well you've already did the two things I would have done. Are you running the game stock or are you running any of the mods out for it? Also, I'd try running memtest to see if you've got some bad RAM. Maybe the HD going?

Are you having any other problems with the computer or is it just WoW?

Incut

pseudonym wrote:

Well you've already did the two things I would have done. Are you running the game stock or are you running any of the mods out for it? Also, I'd try running memtest to see if you've got some bad RAM. Maybe the HD going?

Are you having any other problems with the computer or is it just WoW?

Ok first of all thanks for replying, ok to your questions here are the answers.

1. Im running the game from the CD yes.
2. No im not running any mods for it.
3. For the memtest, im not sure how to run one.
4. HD seems to be fine, but i must say when i reinstalled windows it seems to install WoW Original, but then the errors came for TBC. But when i WIPED my HD and reinstalled windows it dident work, so thats odd. I also used another harddrive but that dident solve anything.
5. Well my general problems with my PC is that i have to keep a fan by it because if i dont it will turn off, maybe cause of heat. But apart from that all my other games that i install, install on my PC fine, including BF2 and BF2142 and Warcraft 3. (I dont have warcraft 3 installed atm because i thought that was the problem but that dident solve anything.

EDIT : I have just done a memtest and it says i have an error, whats the best thing to do? If i need to change the memory then i dont know why because it seems to work fine.

Do reply if you need to know more.

Thanks

mmonnin

If memtest says there is an error...then there is. Sometimes memory errors only occur in certain situations, yours must be playing WoW.

Since you reformated its either 1 Your CDs or 2 Your computer.

Cyclonite

If there's a memory error, then his CDs should have nothing to do with it. Sounds like you need to pull the bad stick(s) out and put some good ones in.

pseudonym

Well if you need to keep a fan by the computer then you have another problem. Your computer is overheating and I'm sure thats not helping things. Is this a homebuilt computer? If so you may want to pull the heatsink and redo your thermal compound. Also make sure all your fans are up and running nicely.

If you are coming out with a memtest error it could either be a bad stick of RAM or the heat may even be causing a problem. Pull one of the sticks out and try again. After that pull that stick out and put the other one in. If it errors with one and not with the other you've found your culprit most likely.

Incut

Arrrrgggg. now my stupid PC wont load windows.. when the little 3 blue squares are going past it just stops then a blue screen appears for like 1/2 a second then just restarts.. it must have been that memtest. I dont get what problem my PC has.

EDIT : Yeah its NOT a homebuilt PC - oh yes and i got my sticks from crucial.com/uk and i did a compatability test and they said they are compatable.

Cyclonite

Memtest wouldn't cause the reboots. You're either overheating or you have a bad stick of memory. Check your heatsink and fans.

Incut

Cyclonite wrote:

Memtest wouldn't cause the reboots. You're either overheating or you have a bad stick of memory. Check your heatsink and fans.

Well i managed to get my PC back just now. but Memtest was the cause of my PC not working.. bare in mind there are alot of different Memtesters out there and maybe mine was some sort of virus or spyware or bug or something, anyway that doesent matter now.. i have checked my fan and that seems to work ok, i dont know what a heatsink is.. and yes i believe the problem is overheating and thats what caused the memtest to error. So im just gonna have to save up for a cooler i guess. or try and find out what a heatsink is and where in my pc it is.

mmonnin wrote:

If memtest says there is an error...then there is. Sometimes memory errors only occur in certain situations, yours must be playing WoW.

Since you reformated its either 1 Your CDs or 2 Your computer.

Well yeah im definatly sure its my PC that is causing the problem, but on the other hand.. WoW game has a part to play in this because like i said, it worked fine when i first got it and now it just wont install whatso ever.

Cyclonite

WoW may have nothing to do with it. If your memory has gone bad and it's triggered by playing WoW, then it's your memory.

The heatsink is that big chunk of metal sitting on top of your processor. It has a fan attached to help dissipate heat. Because the surface that makes contact with the processor isn't perfect and still contains tiny grooves that aren't conducive to heat dissipation, you use a thermal compound. This fill in those grooves and completes the contact between the processor and heatsink. If the compound is improperly applied or too little/much is applied, it can have adverse effects on the heat dissipation, causing the processor to overheat.

When your processor reaches that threshold of overheating, it can produce errors, which would blue screen your computer or cause things to crash. Since you have to have a fan blowing on the computer, that suggests a heat issue. You need to remove the heatsink and check the contact between it and the processor.

As for memory, if you have a bad area, whenever that area is used, the data will become corrupt. You cannot fix this and must replace the stick. The memory tester you should be running is memtest86+. You can find it at www.memtest.org. Download the latest ISO and burn it to CD. Then, reboot your computer the CD inserted. It will boot from the CD and run a series of tests. Let this run for at least a half hour. Sometimes it can take an hour or two to complete all tests, depending on the capabilities of your machine.

Now, if you just downloaded any random memory tester without checking for viruses/spyware/malware, may I suggest a thorough malware and virus scan after completion of these hardware checks.

Hope that helps you out.

Incut

Ok i burned the ISO onto a CD, but it dident boot from CD when i rebooted. but im not sure it was the right file. if you could tell me which file it is that would be cool

Cyclonite

Sorry. I may have explained the wrong. Whatever burning utility you're using, make sure to select the "burn image" option. The ISO is like a snapshot of the CD. It has to be extracted and placed on the disc in its proper form. Burning the ISO *file* directly to the disc as a data file will not work.

Download this zip file: http://www.memtest.org/download/1.70/memtest86+-1.70.iso.zip

Extract the ISO and burn it as I said above.

mmonnin

I just meant that WoW may trigger certain situations that normal PC usage does not. Over time reading/writing to memory has a higher chance for it to fail, maybe to the point of not being able to boot anymore. I work at Micron (Micron owns Crucial) and I know of certain parts in memory that could cause memory to fail over time. I could tell ya, but then I would have to kill ya.

tonydinh18

Hey! I have the same problem as well I can't seem to install World of Warcraft, I use to have it in good working condition. But since I reformatted it won't seem to install. I'm getting all the errors Incut is getting when installing. Anyway I ran the memory test and found 1700+ errors.. it was taking too long so I just exited it. Would that mean I need to get new RAM sticks? I have 2. Oh yeah and I've been getting that blue screen of death lately. Every program I try to install doesn't seem to function properly. My MSN keeps freezing, my Internet keeps freezing giving me the don't send error message. My game Counter Strike keeps freezing as well.

I do hope someone replies.

Thrax

Take one stick out at a time and test the RAM individually. Throw the one that fails away, because it's shot.

TheLostSwede

If you are short on testing hardware, i really suggest spending the cash and take the pc to a workshop to check it out. It's very frustrating guessing what can be bad when there's at least 5 components that could be bad.