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Reply #15 - Apr 17^th, 2010 at 10:26pm

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Barbr wrote on Apr 13^th, 2010 at 7:04pm:

Groundbound1 wrote on Apr 13^th, 2010 at 1:25pm:

Where did 'dis loud "bonk" come from, speakers or the tower? Shocked

The speakers, silly!

That answered my question, but you understand that was talking about the computer tower, and not atc right? Grin

Specs: Asus Crosshair nForce 590 SLI,
AMD Athlon X2 6400+ w/ZeroTherm BTF90,
4GB G.Skill PI Series DDR2-800,
Sapphire HD4870 512MB,
PC P&C 750 Quad, in a CoolerMaster HAF932

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Reply #16 - Apr 17^th, 2010 at 11:00pm

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Barbr wrote on Apr 12^th, 2010 at 1:02am:

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1. Are there any associated messages with the crashes? Also, does the program freeze, go to a black screen, or go instantly to the desktop?

2. Have you tried doing a fresh install of the program and defragging the hard-drive?

3. Are you using XP 32 bit or 64 bit? If using 32, adding more RAM won't matter, since you are already at the maximum amount that the 32 bit version will recognize.

1) Normally it's when I am doing something like switching between views, from 2D cockpit to virtual cockpit... then it keeps loading from the diskdrive and doesn't do anything. Then when I hit "escape" it is re-starting FSX Angry

. Or, it has some small window that says something about how FSX crashed and do I want to restart it...

2) We just reinstalled everything 1-2 months ago...

3) Yes, hubby mentioned something about going to Windows 7 and adding more ram. Would that help? I guess this Graphic Card thing didn't fix the problem... ?

I have had this very same problem, sadly I forget exactly how I fixed it. I'm pretty sure it was defrag, though.

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Reply #17 - Apr 18^th, 2010 at 12:09am

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Just a few things to add:
-Do a virus scan if you haven't already.
-Do a spyware scan, if you haven't already. If anything, it'll make your computer run a lot smoother by getting rid of everyday malevolent web junk.
-Ensure that your power supply can support your video card. I only mention this because a jump from a GF 9600 to an HD 5850 is a pretty hefty upgrade that takes up 66% more power than what your old card required.

Cheers,
RB

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