Hi guys,

I have a real problem. Here is what happened, I left my computer on
for a week or so without touching it, then started FS9 and this showed up
when I tryed to select another aircraft.
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Image "cbxfield.bmp [3]"
   Cannot Be Loaded

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I know what this file is and where it is. I tryed opening the .bmp
even using the .bmp converter, but it is some how corrupt.

I figured I would try to find "cbxfield.bmp" on the FS9 install disks, when I
tryed to search disk-1 for the file, my computer froze up to the point that
I had to shut it off with the power button.

When I started the computer back up... I got the Black screen of Death

Right now I'm in 'idle' mode on trying to restore Drive C: with the 10 disk backup
I made. I got up to disk-4 or 5 and the computer said there was a data failure.

Now I'm at the screen (NO ONE!) wants to see===>((Missing Operating System))

I have all FS9 related files on partition Drive D: All my repaints and .Cfg mods.....

THIS SUCKS!!!! I'm about to chamber a ROUND!! Got one all picked out!

What I would like to know is, what would cause FS9 to do this and is it a sign
of yet more serious FS9 problems?

I'm confident I can bring the computer back to life. I hope...

               Thank you for your support! 

Thanks Jetranger,

Yes your a big help, anything you can tell me about your past experiences
on this type issue helps brother.

I think my hard drive may be going bad (as much as I hate to admit it to myself)
cause it seems to do alot of running & searching without alot of results. It may
just be me but I just have this feeling.

I'm going to knock the dust off the ol'sony and crack her open. It's time to brake
out the old radio shack tool kit and get to work on her.

Who knows.. It might just be a dang spider or a stink bug in there somewhere.
I'm just kidding... but either way though.. I have to do that anyway. It's been
a while.
                                          - Blaze -

Well it's official.. the computer is SMOKED! I even tryed restoring
the whole drive C & D but I get an error "Disk sense:Access Failure"
on disk-1 of the recovery kit.

ALL THAT WORK!

I'm trying not to think to hard about what I had on there, you know...
.. so I don't loose my marbles.

I know I'm not the only one who's lost everything, it just burns my ass
that I couldn't even afford to buy some storage disks or a memory stick
to back my projects up.

The one good thing in this situation is that all the addon files I downloaded
are on DVD media storage. So I don't have to download them all again.

My computer is a 2002 sony, I wish I could have backed those project files
up on the DVD's but my old computer wouldn't recognize them as storage
media. It would read them but not write to them. Bummer!

Ya know what, I souldn't even be complaining about this. with all the people
around the world going through really bad situations in there lives, It's
disrespecting them.

Well, I got a good run out of the old computer. She was free (out of the trash!)
and all the files were freeware. ((Thank you to all))

I'm not going to be flying anymore because I can't afford a computer or a hard
drive. Maybe something will come up. I might take it over to this computer shop
across town to see what he can come up with when I do get a couple bucks.

Yeah Paul, when I was up stairs trying to restore her back to factory settings, I
was thinking about how nice FS9 was going to run by starting fresh. But those
dreams were "Dashed to bits by the jagged rocks bellow!"

Thats Funny ===> " Paul...with a big pile of scrap HDD's "

Your a real good dude Paul!

It's true to... I think we all have old hard drives laying around, along with old
memory cards and old video cards and a bunch of those IDE straps........

It's a shame none of it is really good for anything anymore. I don't know why
I hold on to it, Pack-Rat I guess.
    
   Dwayne... ... Getting ready to hit the street corners to
                                raise money for a new computer .... ...

Hey Paul,

Yeah, on that, heres the sitchimatation, a few years back I was married to a
wonderful-ly miserable B@%#H. So we got a divorce.

At that time my dad got sick (C). I moved into my parents house to help my
mom and dad and to help around the house.

Well my dad passed away in 2009 and I stayed here to help mom and have
been here ever since. Mom is 74 years old, she needs the help.

The computer I'm posting on is mom's. Mine is up stairs on the third-floor. I
don't have internet on mine. Not that it matters anymore.

The DVD's I was using for the addon downloads are from mom's private stash.
No.. She don't care.

AND NO.. I DON'T ACT LIKE NOR DO I LOOK LIKE THAT LITTLE FAT DUDE ON
"THE KING OF QUEENS"..... ..... .. But I do like star trek!

             Dwayne... I'm Not Fat!... I'm big boned! 

logjam wrote on Mar 1^st, 2013 at 10:46pm:


Yes.
BLAZE seems to be one hell of a guy

BLAZE wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2013 at 12:08am:


The only thing that gives me withdrawal pains, is the rare occasion when I load up my copy of FSX...
..but fortunately,  it doesn't last for very long before I see the error of my ways, and exchange it for my copy of my trusty FS 2004 instead...
...then I am back in familiar territory, and everything in the World suddenly becomes bright and rosy again!... ...!

Its strange how excited we can get, over a simple piece of Computer Software... ...!

I hope you get everything up and running again, Dwayne, with your FS 2004 back on-line again!
I know your frustration!... ... ...!

Paul... ...!

Thank you Paul..

It's really.. really a bummer man.

Last night I hooked up the old 'Dell' computer to try and see if I could get some kind of flying
in. I deleted alot of files from the Dell to make room for FS9 and installed it.

The Dell only has a 10-Gig hard drive but I managed to pry 4.1-Gig's out of it. It was running
so bad that I deleted FS9. I couldn't get more then 3-FPS and my god did it look terrible.

It's funny how you forget all the modifications you do to the flight sim, with all the addons and
the mod's you make your self. I couldn't beleve how UGLY it was without all the upgrades.

Hat's way off to all you people who create all those addons! Simply Incredible Difference!