Random Freezing

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Psychobob777

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Hello Computer Forum,
I'm having a problem with my computer (when playing World of Warcraft)
My computer will randomly freeze or restart when Im playing WoW..is there some way I can see what is causing this, or do any of you know what could be causing this problem?
Thanks
 
There are different things that can cause a game to freeze up or see a sudden restart of the system. Most of the time it will turn out to system temps, driver problems for sound as well as for video, or even faults that have developed with the memory installed on the system if some other cause like an antivirus program or other background activity competes for the same memory addresses.

A game like any other software can have it's own problems at times especially if it tries to access memory addresses reserved for necessary system functions. Some tips for frequent game locks and other problems can be helped with updated drivers for both video and sound cards if installed. XP does have it's own crash control feature where Window will restart the system to avoid system lockups. That requires a small change of one value in the system registry to disable that.
 
PC eye said:
There are different things that can cause a game to freeze up or see a sudden restart of the system. Most of the time it will turn out to system temps, driver problems for sound as well as for video, or even faults that have developed with the memory installed on the system if some other cause like an antivirus program or other background activity competes for the same memory addresses.

A game like any other software can have it's own problems at times especially if it tries to access memory addresses reserved for necessary system functions. Some tips for frequent game locks and other problems can be helped with updated drivers for both video and sound cards if installed. XP does have it's own crash control feature where Window will restart the system to avoid system lockups. That requires a small change of one value in the system registry to disable that.
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Could you show me how to do that cause I have messed around witht he registry before as well as installed a program called cache man to free up some ram for the game
 
Once you have the registry value(DWord value) highlighted you simply go upto the "Edit" drop down menu seen on the explorer bar and choose "modify". The regedit command typed in at the Run prompt will open the regisry editing tool where the "hives" and "branches" of the system registry look a lot like the directories and sub directories seen when browsing your hard drive. The big difference there however is wrong edit and Windows won't run.

The path to get to the two different values that can be modified is "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>System>CurrentControlSet>Control". In the window on the right you will sse two blue colored icons with one seeing "AutoReboot REGDWORD 0x00000001 (1)" next to one with the other being "CrashDumpEnabled 0x00000001 (1)". The second one dumps memory into a dump file for later diagnostics. Once you highlight either one and click on the modify link on the edit menu you will see a small slot with "1" there. You simply change the "1" to "0" to see the (1) change to (0). If you get lost go to http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_reg_edits.htm for that and other reg edits as well.
 
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