tech question

I've been having some serious lock-ups that only happen with WoW (and WoW reinstallation). I've done all the fixes on the Blizzard forums to no avail, except upgrade my power supply (shouldn't be necessary, and I've disabled a few devices). Occasionally I'll get a short term fix that'll let me play for a night but it's pretty frustrating. If anyone has any advice it would be greatly appreciated.

Details - the screen locks, no inputs work (alt-tab, ctrl-alt-del, nothing) and the computer must be restarted (it restarts as if nothing happened). the last couple of times, the sound has stuttered a little before the lock up. it doesn't seem to matter if i'm doing something graphically intense or not, if my graphics settings are at max or min, and it happens in full-screen and windowed,

Comp -
Motherboard: ECS GeForce6100M-M
Processor: AMD Athlon X2 5600+
Memory: 8GB PC6400 (800MHz)
VidCard: Radeon X1300 512MB
SoundCard: Creative Soundblaster (I'm considering disabling this as well)

Thanks in advance

Didn't someone else have this problem a little while ago as well? I'm not a PC user, but I'd have to wonder whether the video card is failing. Is there any way you can test it before going out and just replacing it?

I hope you can figure out what is causing the trouble. Nothing worse than having hardware go bad on you.

He figured it out...it was his sound card. Go figure.

Yeah, right after I commented and went away for a while, I remembered some people having game issues when sound cards went bad. I just don't understand...

(I'm sticking with my Mac!)

so now i'm running barebones and still locking up; even tried taking the case cover off to improve cooling. i can still log and run around on my laptop, but the desktop just locks up...it's even locked up on me a couple times when i wasn't doing something WoW related.

the frustrating part is i had 2 good months on this system w/ no problems at all

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and download the program on there. Its called hijack this. Once you have downloaded it extract it and then press the run and save log file button. Once that is done i need you to paste that log file on here. I will read it for you and then pass it off to my friends at tech-forums.net to review it for me. It is imperative that you do not delete anything until i read the log file over.

Once that is done we will try troubleshooting with you're system temps and such.

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The links i posted didn't work I'm going to try them while signed on.

Hijack this:

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Tech Forums Infection Removal Guide:

http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f51/warez-monsters-4-step-spyware-removal-guide-114061/

thanks for the suggestions rva; however, I went through the scans, and even reformatted the harddrive. the only programs on there now are windows, wow and a couple diagnostics. I also checked the temps and ran memory tests.

But the latest development...after checking a lot of non-wow forums (I had some suspicions about my vidcard) I decided to pick up a new power supply. My old one is about 6 years old and woefully underpowered. I'm hoping to be up and running again tonight or tomorrow (again, fingers crossed).

This computer rebuild has been an incredibly enlightening experience.

Oh alright then cool. The guide is always there in case you need it. Gl with that psu i had to get a new one for the same reasons, it was fun but time consuming having to reroute the cables without killing air flow.

well, just had one successful night w/ new psu...hopefully it'll repeat tomorrow