Ive noticed that when I am either about to take off or I am climbing on IFR flight in the Stratojet Excalibur, my pc just restarts on it's own. Has anybody experienced this?, can anybody help me?

    The only time I had problems with my 'puter restarting spontaniously was when I was having CPU overheat problems.

    Have you played 3D games on your computer before? What I'm trying to get at is if this is the first time you've spent any length of time playing a 3D game, your CPU may be overheating by doing 3D work.  If this is the situation, you may need to consider buying a new cooling fan for your CPU.

    This is the only thing I can think of right now.

Joe

There still could be a heat problem because FS is a verry grafic intense prog. Besides it wont take but a couple of min. to find out just take the case off and have a look at your power supply fan . These have a tendencey to get clogged up with dust and can slow them down and even stop them after a while. you will need a can of air . Do not forget to check any cpu fan or grafic card fan if you have them.

How much free space do you have on your hard drive ???
  If after reformatting a hard drive you are still having problems then you either have a faulty power supply or a mother board problem. Have you added any new hardware that was not there before such as changing cd rom drives or replacing a monitor. I recently changed cd rom drive as the old one I had was very slow.
After changing when I restarted my system it kept shutting down after awhile. I found out that my old power supply was rated at 250 watts and was not strong enough to handle the change I replaced it with a 300 watt power supply and have had no proplems since 8)

if you are using pc 100 or pc 133 dimm change them, especialy if you are combinig multiple dimms i wrote before, and believe me the problem came back i borrowed from a friend two dimms 256 each i tested ,the problem sussefully have been resolve, then i took one of old dimm i set it in a other computer it start and every thing suddely it turned off  again in a other computer ONE OF MY  dimmS had a strange damage AND MAKES MY PC CRASH ...you will remember me    alrot_65@hotmail.com

I have this problem too.. My computer resets when playing FS9 sometimes. I don't think it is a overheating cpu issue though, Ihave quite a bit of cooling, and I am not overclocking, and have temperature monitoring software. I can overclock from 1.8 to 2.2ghz and get much higher temperature and still have a stable system, but MS FS9 seems to reset with no overclocking whatsoever with just above average temps (sure cause it is cpu intensive maybe average is 40C FS9 drives it up to maybe 45-50C which is normal on any AMD system.... I think there is a flaw maybe encountered on AMD systems??????? Do you guys all have AMD cpus too??