Windows 7 and World of Warcraft

Hi, I built a new computer in June 2010. The specs are ASUS M4A785-M AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard, LOGISYS Computer PS575XBK 575W ATX12V SLI Ready Power Supply, AMD Athlon II X2 245 Regor 2.9GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Desktop
Processor ADX245OCGQBOX, PQI TURBO 4GB (2 x 2GB) memory. I purchased Windows 7 home premium as well. My first graphics card was a Sparkle Geforce 9400 GT, this card when playing warcraft would make my whole system crash to a blue screen, I thought it might
be the card so I recently purchased a Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 1GB DDR3 PCIe 2.1, when I insalled this new car warcraft now crashed to a black screen then comes back and continously does this. I thought it was maybe an issue with the Windows 7 home, so I tried
a copy of Windows 7 Professional and it did the same thing. I reformatted again and am now running Windows XP and the video card runs great, however I'm missing the Directx 11 video quality. Does anyone have any suggesions as to what may be causing the graphic
card issues with Windows 7 and any fixes? Thanks!

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