Last time i heard about/saw a problem like this, it was a stick of memory going bad. I know you said the machine isnt even a month old but you still cant rule out hardware failure. And no, im not saying its the best chance/only chance, just something to look into at some point.

You can check your memory by running a program called memtest. Go to the website, click on free download on the left hand side, download the .zip file that suits you best, burn the image to a CD. After all that, put the cd in the drive and reboot the computer, hopefully it will already be trying to boot from the CD drive first and if so the system will automatically go into memtest and start running it. This isnt a short test mind you but it does a damn good job of checking the memory.

http://www.memtest86.com/

If anyone else has other options, cause i know that memory isnt the only possible wrong, just a fairly easy option to check.

Alternately, Vista has its own memory test built in. You can schedule it to run on next boot.

Ah, yeah... i should mention that i still run XP, and dont know much about vista yet either.

My first guess would be memory as well. The link provided says the PC came w/ 3BG RAM. I'm guessing three 1GB sticks or maybe one 1GB + one 2GB sticks. Either way, try taking out one of the sticks of ram. Reboot, run WOW, look for error, repeat til you've checked all sticks of ram. It's a simple easy to do process of elimination. Hopefully, you take out one of the sticks and the error goes away. Then just replace that stick.

Also, are your Video Drivers and DirectX up to date?

I have made sure every driver is up to date, I have checked them and rechecked. I am new to vista though so I will have to hunt for the memory test...
thanks hopefully I can figure it out, although I do welcome any other suggestions just in case...

Start->Search Bar

Type "Memory". Should pop up.

here's a good walk-through on using the Memory Diagnostics Tool

Vista4Beginners

so I figured out how to use the memory diagnostic.. thanks to Nove...


I ran it.. and it detected no errors... *sigh*

Is there such a thing as too much memory?

I really don't know..

Thanks for the link Infernally I will most likely be visiting it.

Is is possible to take it back to where you bought it and say "it's having this problem--it's new--wtf?"

I see a lot of good suggestions here, I don't have much to add. Errors like this are usually caused by bad RAM or possibly RAM that has the timings set too tightly, although you have a prefab PC and that shouldn't be an issue. Good luck!

just be honest & tell them that's why you bought it. Whenever i've had an internet / IP problem, "Yeah I know this might seem trivial to you, but honestly the only reason I pay $29.99 a month for your service is to play online games."

custom builds are always the way to go

Well for the money this *seemed* like the way to go, I have been running the game in opengl for the last 2 days and haven't had any errors... except when I tried to double box and play sound in each window.. then I got it on the second window. So yeah, I am thinking the low end 9300 is ok, but wow is just a tad much.
So I figure I will get a video card when I can, for now I will run in opengl then save up and build some bad ass system next year on my holidays instead of going anywhere..

Thank for all the input and suggestions.