*Sorry for the extremely long post*

Posting this here cuz its a computer problem more than a game problem, although it only happens when dealing with World of Warcraft.

Background info:

I built a new computer in January, ordered parts from Monarchcomputers.com, here's the majority of the stuff.

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/68/p ... ase4ha.png

Right off the bat, one of the RAM sticks was bad and kept me from booting up. Figured that out and ran tests on the other one, which seemed to be find. Also, the drivers disc for the motherboard that shipped with it was for an A8N-SLi, while my motherboard is an A8N-E. Didn't realize it at the time so I just stuck it in and installed everything. I realized something was wrong when the Audio didn't work.

Tried downloading correct audio drivers and every file was "corrupted". A friend downloaded it and gave it to me on a jump drive and it worked fine...

Problems:

For the longest time everything worked fine with the exception of:

-While playing WoW I would randomly disconnect from the server, or crash, having a game error: http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/6162 ... age7ab.jpg
Crashing/LD'ing was about a 50/50 chance and tended to happen when zoning or changing instances, or when in highly populated areas (BWL or Ironforge)

-Certain images or screenshots came up spliced or disfigured
Example: http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7363/andafter7xr.jpg

-Downloaded files (drivers, music, some videos) were corrupted when I tried opening them or running them.

**Newest and most frustrating problem:
After the spring semester was over I went home for 3 weeks, where I don't have internet access ( not even dial-up ) Only thing I used my computer for was listening to Music and watching re-runs of Lost.

Now that I'm back, I tried playing WoW and was logged in for about 2 mins and had a Blue Screen error: http://www.blizzard.com/support/wow/?id=aww01660p
I tried following the steps on there, but nothing works. So I uninstalled the game and reinstalled. While trying to download the updates and patches, the error comes up again, same one. Only happens when downloading the patches. I can leave my computer on all night and it's fine. Within 2 or 3 mins of starting the downloader, I get the blue screen error and am forced to restart my computer.

I know I have updated drivers for my Video card, Audio, and DirectX.

I think my problems are stemming from either my RAM or my Network card. Either the drivers aren't right, so some times when I download stuff they get spliced or the RAM isn't saving things like it should.

I don't know. Anyone who has any info or is stellar with fixing computers, please help! Feel free to Email me at swr4hd@umr.edu, I can bring my computer to you or whatever if you think you can help. I'd be happy to pay for services that resulted in fixing my problems.

Thanks in advance and I apologize for the extremely long post.

I would just format and see if it happens after a fresh install. Maybe you didn't remove all of those old drivers properly.

I concur. A clean install is really the only reliable baseline for comparison.

Alright, thanks guys. I'll hafta track down a copy of Windows Xp again but once I do I'll reformat everything and start from scratch.

Any other ideas are welcome also, and again thanks for the replies.

-Mafic