computer beeping while playing world of warcraft

Hi,

My computer started beeping about 2 weeks ago. At first I thought it was while AVG was scanning, so I deleted that and installed pc-cillen.

Now when I am playing World of Warcraft (and only WOW) it is beeping continuously. I have recently upgraded the power supply to 450W and installed a new harddrive Seagate 250g sata.

Could anyone give me some suggestions please.:confused

Thanks in advance

 

Sounds to me like your CPU is overheating. I would suggest a new graphics card.

 

Or, if you want to risk your motherboard, raise your temperature warning level from within your BIOS. Or look into a new cooling unit. Blow out some dust from your tower (assuming it's a desktop) with some clean, compressed air. Make sure all of your cooling units are working.

 

Thanks for your suggestions Loki, will try those things and see how she goes!!

 

Go for it, tell us how it works out.

 

I have to agree I have a MSI mobo with a P4 "Prescott" and it used to beep which was an overheating alarm, gaming arguably produces the most significant stress on your components and thus overheating. You could consider an aftermarket HS to provide extra cooling for the CPU.

 

There are some pretty nice PCI cooling units for about $5 at thinkgeek.com.

 

ok, I upgraded my video card today to a Radeon x1650 PRO, great graphics, system running a lot cooler, however getting an error whenever I log into World of Warcraft. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

 

What exactly is the error you're getting?

 

The error message is:

This application has encountered a critical error:

ERROR #134 (0x85100086) Fatal Condition
Program: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe

Failed to read data.

 

First, try to run repaire.exe. It can be found in your WoW directory. Usually C:/Program Files/Worldofwarcraft. Run it, then WoW, then tell us what happens. You may need to repatch to a point.

When you run repair.exe click scan and repair (it may be something else, haven't ran it in a while).

 

Thank you guys for all your help, I actually put another stick of ram in today and that seems to have done the trick.

So back I go to the world of warcraft!!!

Thanks again

 

Good to see everything's working out. I'm glad I could help.