Comments on: Argh

By: RJK

RJK — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:51:52 +0000

This has been happening to me alot more lately. I recently installed Elephant, a chat monitoring addon…I wonder if that is causing it.

By: Gravity

Gravity — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:54:46 +0000

No, happened three times recently, which is why I’m trying to fix the damn thing. Always seems to happen at the worst times, too; whilst raiding!

By: Digg

Digg — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:34:12 +0000

Its probably just a one-off Grav, stop crapping yourself

By: Gravity

Gravity — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:34:43 +0000

Thanks! Geez, I’d hope it’d not be physical memory on a new, clean, cooled PC. Downloading that memory tester now just in case.

I don’t use Chatter but do use BasicChatMods, perhaps they effect a similar part of the UI. I’ll disable it just in case. I’m on 64-bit Vista, yes.

How horrendous is the possibility that an addon could cause a WoW crash!
They should run in a protected memory space or something.

Update: it passed the memory test, so will now see if it occurs anymore with that addon disabled. Will also double-check my Vista drivers are up-to-date (they were 4 weeks ago).

By: Karatheya

Karatheya — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:54:33 +0000

Are you running 64 bit windows perchance? If so, are you running the addon “Chatter”?

I know that’s a long shot, but I had similar crashes when I upgraded from WinXP to Win7-64 that I couldn’t explain. I disabled addons one by one (took hours) and finally narrowed it down to that one addon, even though I’d been running it for ages and it never caused issues on XP.

Check your memory itself using memtest86 – get a bootable ISO image to burn at

http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

So long as the memory is physically OK, you should try to eliminate addons one by one, but that’s only useful if you can force the problem to occur. In my case, I could provoke it by reloading my UI.

By: Indraani

Indraani — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:22:03 +0000

You should definitely check your computer’s RAM, I had that issue bugging me for a very long time. I had to switch one of the memory sticks and re-install wow to get rid of it.

That worked for me, but it could be some other problem you have. Tip: Use an ubuntu livecd or any other bootable OS that comes with a memory diagnostic software.

Good luck!