What does this mean?

Gonzo

hey guys
a bought a new pc a few months ago, its very well speced, quad coare, 4 gigs of ram, vista64, geforce 8800gtx etc and its running very smoothly except when I play World of Warcraft. Every now and again the game pauses, the sound loops in the background and then a blue screen appears for about 6 seconds then the computer reboots itself. Other times I get weird polygon glitches flickering and jumping all over the place in World Of Warcraft.

This does not happen in any other game and computer acts normal at all other times. I have the latest nvidia graphics drivers installed and Warcraft is fully uptodate.

This is the error I get:

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 6153

Files that help describe the problem
Mini013008-01.dmp
sysdata.xml
Version.txt

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Extra information about the problem
BCCode: 116
BCP1: FFFFFA800521A010
BCP2: FFFFF980044525F0
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 000000000000000D
OS Version: 6_0_6000
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 768_1


Anyone know what this means or how I can fix this problem.

Cheers

PogMoThoin

If its only happenin with 1 game i'd suspect a driver problem, update to the latest on the nvidia website. Try to follow the following procedure each time you upgrade graphics drivers:

download latest driver to your desktop
uninstall old driver in add/remove
reboot to safe mode by pressing f8 on boot up
run driver cleaner, here, some recommend emptying the recycle bin
reboot to normal mode
install new driver by showing the driver pop-up the file on your desktop

SouperComputer

"Other times I get weird polygon glitches flickering and jumping all over the place in World Of Warcraft."

BOOM! thats your problem in order of most likely to least............

1) Either the GPU, RAM or both on the Graphics card is overheating/damaged.
2) The Graphics card isnt getting enough juice
3) The bus that your graphics card is on is borked. (PCIE)
4) Your drivers caused a problem.

Download Ntune, monitor the GPU temps, ensure good airflow across the card and take it from there. Artifacts/tearing/glitches and lightning-like effects are rarely a software issue. Even though its only happening with one game, it could just be that it pushes the hardware hard enough to show the issue.

Sherifu

SouperComputer wrote: »

1) Either the GPU, RAM or both on the Graphics card is overheating/damaged.

This is definitely the most likely. Overheating has been linked to that error code before. For some it has gone away when they used some monitoring tools as suggested.

Axwell

Have you checked the minidump file?
If you check it and look for the MODULE_NAME and IMAGE_NAME headings you will see what is causing the error

BopNiblets

Uninstall addictive MMORPG an option?

RoyalMarine

gonzo download a program to check the temps of the graphics card.
good few of them around.

if its anywhere over 90 degree's when playing world of warcraft then thats definatly causing the problem.