I know this is the wrong forum but I couldn't get the WoW froum to load. When I try to acces my account on the world of warcraft site, it doesn't load. It just gives me a blank white screen until eventually cannot find server appears. Does anyone know how to overcoe this problem?.

Is there risk of friction igniting sparkler powder?  I've heard black powder can ignite with friction, but is sparkler powder safer?

just say you smashed it between to metal plates with a hammer would that be ignite it?

Theoritically speaking, if sparkler powder was placed in  steel container and the container was left to heat up in a fire, would the sparkler powder ignite from within the container?

Also would placing that sparkler powder or other low order explosive in a plastic bag first prevent this?

If so then at what temperature and how long would it take?

Thanks for your help.

I installed WoW no problem but than through circumstances I had to re install it. When I tried to re- install I got to disc 5 and had  problems. When I put the disc into the drive I got disc crush, a humming noise, followed by a thrashing sound. The disc crush damages cd's really bad, hence the name.

Im just wondering why it didn't happen the first time I installed the game. Its not the drive because it happened on another my other drive as well.

The other problem is the drive itself, it seems slow to recognise cd's. Plus it locks up more often than I would like.

The drive is brand new and is suppose to good. Which makes me think it could be a problem with my computer. Your thoughts?

I get my new computer all seems well. I than proceeded to install Windows XP. Once Windows XP installed I than installed the cd that contained the drivers. When installing the drivers an error message came up, saying something about how it couldn't find such and such file. Ignoring this I proceeded to install the drivers. I than installed WoW, and began to play it, all was well for a while until I began to get the error#131. I looked at the technical support page at Blizzard, and it advised me to use a program that would scan the installation for errors. I did this and got so many errors, that it told me I should re install. After uninstalling, scanning the hardrive, and defragmenting I than proceeded to re install the game. The installation only got so far before an error screen would come up with same type error that had effected the cd of drivers. So I tried again, and again but kept on getting similar errors. I than tried other programs and games but still got similar errors. I tried to install Warcraft 3 but got an error, soemho it installed anyway. When I proceeded to play it an error came up about the memory, as in RAM. So now I figure my problems have to do with my 2GB of RAM. I found it strange however that both my RAM sticks could screwed up.

Other problems that have occured.

CD drive won't recognise CD's until you double click on the CD ROM drive

Cannot enter cd driver disc at all

More but can't remember them at this stage

If any one has any idea, or any advice that could help would be greatly appreciated.

If you don't want to deal with winning the auction why don't you sign up for an account that does it for you?mrphilip11

Hmmm haven't heard of this actually, probably would be good. However it doesn't eliminate the other problems i listed.

There are a lot of people who would tell that ebay and the like is an easy and covenient way to buy things.  But is it? I don't think so. Half the stuff on ebay you have to auction for, the auctioning of which requires constant checking of the auctions, constant bidding to remain the highest bidder and through all of it your not even garunteed the sale. If you do end up buying the item, you than have to e mail the buyer for information regarding payment etc. This should be an easy thing to do but quite often the seller is slow to respond to your emails, or sends you irrevelant information forcing you to e mail again and wait for another response. Then theres the payment which requires a lot of mucking around ( if they don't allow paypal, which is often the case). Then once you do send the money, they usually take there sweet time to send off what you bought, they give you some rough idea of how long the package will take but it usually takes longer.

Buying the item you can never be sure that your gonna get exactly what you bought, or if it will come undamaged. Oh sure they have the feedback system, but most sellers probably feel forced to leave a positive review in order to gain points for themselves.

So basically what im saying if you want something and you can get it from the stores than do so. It may be a touch more expensive than the so called bargains on ebay, but you will get it a lot sooner and a lot easier. EBAY sucks.