Just the CPU

Now, what you can do if the base of a new heatsink unit that comes in contact with the CPU is not a mirror finish is prep it by taking a clean piece of plastic.. like a piece of plastic shrink wrap from one of the delivered boxes.. and place a very tiny dab (and I do mean tiny) in the center of the contact face... then rub it and rub it off with the same plastic so what you are leaving behind is a very fine film of thermal compound. It will look like a 'stain' or water mark on the base of the new HS and will not have any excess.

That’s only for NEW heatsinks and the first time they are used and only if that heatsink does not come with a reflective mirror finish on the side that contacts the CPU

G1000Pilot wrote on May 28^th, 2009 at 12:39pm:



You dont change weather in mid flight.. however 'game freeze' does not sound right.

The patch they postsed is still a beta.

With ASA here is how I set it, and forget it....















All I do is

1. Launch ASA

2. Wait for internet weather to download, strings to initialize and connect to FSX

3. Make any changes I wish for the flight I wish to take (make sure to SAVE and APPLY)

4. Minimize to tray

4. Start FSX



Its possible that last patch may have a bug in it,, if the problem continues, try the B406 patch

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jn0n1tyy2wd/ASA-Update-B406.zip


But do keep in mind that FSX weather is wonky... you really do not want to be making weather changes in mid-flight with any weather engine.. and right now the ASA patches are still in BETA

when you say drivers you mean for the GC right? everything else should be good to go right?

Yes, video card drivers


you need to have a case that FEEDS the system and gets the hot air out without flow interruption.. I use this layout with my tower

Thanks Nick!

I have all addons installed now, as well as Nhancer (nothing touched on that yet) and the CPUID program. The final touches for OS optimization are being done and then I will put in the new heatsink Sat. AM.

Is Nhancer supposed to start with windows or should I turn that off?

For OO Defrag: should I do my drives twice even though they are new with the system? And Can i do both drives at the same time?

One other thing too

O&O has identified a issue with their video driver which allows the OFFLINE defrag screen to display. If the driver they include is not working correctly with the video card you will get a scrambled screen when the offline defrag tool starts before Windows boots.

The fix for that is posted here:

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1208959973/2#2

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NOTE:

For Boot Time visual interface corruption please note this fix from O&O:


This problem does happen when our graphics driver is not compatible with your graphics card. Please rename the following file:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\oobctm.sys

eg. to

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\oobctm.bak

This file is the grahics card driver for O&O Defrag. If the file is not there, the Windows default driver will be used for offline defragmentation instead.

Note: Don't open O&O Defrag after you rename the driver, this will cause to reinstall the driver again. Therefore change the settings for the offline defragmentation before.

Restart your computer and the offline defragmentation should run. If you can see everything correctly, do the following after Windows is loaded:

- close O&O Defrag if it was open

- delete the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\oobctm.sys

- create a file in this folder with notepad and name it "oobctm.sys"

(please take care that the file extensions are correct and are not hidden by Windows explorer)

- open O&O Defrag, it should not install the driver again

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Just because the screen is scambled does not mean the offline defrag is not running.. it is, you just can not see the screen. There is no input involved and it runs automatically anyway.

You can just let it do it work and when finished it will boot into Windows. You do not have to stop the system if the screen is garbled and you should NEVER stop such a defrag by hitting the power button on the tower or you can corrupt the OS

also, I am not doing any FSX tuning or .cfg edits until after OO defrag. I just wanted to confirm this.