Hi all,
I thought I would respond to this thread with my own 132 problem instead of starting a new thread. Basically, 5 days ago, I started to get severe WoW crashes and Blue screens, Usually resulting in a complete PC restart but sometimes WoW would quit and I would get the Blizzard error box. Here is a short extract of the error message
This application has encountered a critical error:
ERROR #132 (0x85100084) Fatal Exception
Program: C:\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe
Exception: 0xC0000005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION) at 001B:004ABD5C
The instruction at "0x004ABD5C" referenced memory at "0x01345A34".
The memory could not be "read".
Naturally, I went straight to the Blizzard technical help forums and did some researching. It seems that this problem seems to be pretty common and there is a horde of angry gamers.
I have investigated alot of the possible solutions such as, deleting my WTF and Interface files, running the Blizzard repair utility, running it in OpenGL mode, Windowed mode, no addons etc, all to no avail unfortunatly. I gave WoW a rest and decided to play some other games while my research went on as to why this was happening. This is where things started to really worry me. I went to play TF2 and about 5minutes into my first game, I was Blue screened and restarted. I then tried a much older game (Dungeon Keeper 2) and got the same result, 15minutes into the game.
This very same thing started happening 2 days ago just by browsing the internet or doing running programs such as MSN. I then went back onto the Blizzard technical help again to see if anyone else had replied with a solution. It seems someone had pasted something from this forum, about changing the voltage input to my ram from Automatic to a set voltage.
I got a more technical minded friend to assist me in finding out the correct voltage and found out it should be set to 1.80v. I restarted and entered the Bios and changed this. Now things have been rectified somewhat apart from the gaming aspect. I mananaged one battleground in Warcraft before being closed and receiving a WoW error. It was very similar to the last error message except this time it was The memory could not be "written" (instead of "read"). I have not tried gaming since this (about 20:00hr yesterday).
My confusion about this problem is that it seems to have only occured since the 2.4 patch was implemented in WoW and their technical staff have admitted that the patch may bring to light some faults with my system that were underlying and unnoticable before.
I'm afraid my hardware knowledge is rather limited and spartan but I will do my best to understand any solutions. Here is some basical dxdiag information about my PC:
Time of this report: 4/22/2008, 16:42:11
Machine name: DRE-9E8E1A5268C
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 3582MB RAM
Page File: 670MB used, 6330MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
If there is anything else I can provide any one with to assist me with my problem I am happy to help and will be checking this thread regularly.
Thanks in advance <3