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DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200
Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club
Monterrey, NL Mexico
357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs,
132.3 hours online 255 legs,
668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 20:22 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
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I haven't been able to finish a single flight without problems since I started flying again a week ago. It's either FS crashing on final, or messed up sounds and graphics.
By messed up sounds and graphics I mean that airport textures won't load, I only see gray squares where the airport should be (including surroundings, runways, taxiways, etc...), my VC and exterior plane textures are gone too, and my engine sounds are not there anymore, only the AI ATC sounds, and a continuous, loud and painful BZZZZZZ (I'm on headphones).
Any music playing in the background from Windows Media Player will stop playing too.
Processes running in the background: 16 + FS.
Is this thing overheating, is my RAM failing, or is the processor failing? I built this PC myself back in 2006:
Windows XP SP2
Pentium 4 HT @3Ghz FSB800Mhz
1 GB DDR RAM
250 GB Western Digital SATA HD 7200RPM (recently defragged with O&O)
NVidia GeForce 8500GT 512MB (shared memory, less than one year old)
Soundblaster 24Bit soundcard (older one, from 2004 or so)
400W PSU
Thanks all.
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DVA1882
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on September 09 2004
Online Quadruple Century Club
Long Beach 500 Club
50 State Club
Iron Dispatcher
Millennium Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"MD-11 rules!!!!" San Luis PotosÃ, Mexico
1,081 legs, 1,637.0 hours
426 legs,
601.5 hours online 787 legs,
1,085.2 hours ACARS 12 legs,
28.5 hours event 558 legs dispatched, 225.6
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 20:35 ET by Horacio Meza-Velarde
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Sound to me (I am no computer expert, though) like RAM problems to me. But I would let the computer experts to chime in!!!!
Salud, David!
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DVA1044
Senior Captain, B767-300
Joined on January 12 2003
Century Club
"Fly Delta Jets" Roswell, NM USA
127 legs, 388.8 hours
62 legs,
199.3 hours online 2 legs,
5.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 20:39 ET by Lloyd Arms
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Since its only a couple years old I seriously doubt your having hardware issues. The CPU or Ram could be giving you problems however I'd look at software problems first.
16 processes sounds real light to me as well. When was your system last formated?
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DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200
Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club
Monterrey, NL Mexico
357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs,
132.3 hours online 255 legs,
668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 22:10 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
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It's never been reformated hehe. It's free of virus and spyware. I clean the registry with Registry Mechanic from time to time too.
I manually shut down the processes that seem unneeded at startup until I leave those 16.
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DVA1044
Senior Captain, B767-300
Joined on January 12 2003
Century Club
"Fly Delta Jets" Roswell, NM USA
127 legs, 388.8 hours
62 legs,
199.3 hours online 2 legs,
5.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 22:14 ET by Lloyd Arms
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XP has a nasty habit of needing to be reinstalled every now and then. Depending on how many hrs. How many programs installed/removed etc its fairly easy to get it messed up just enough to cause FS problems. I've found out through alot of use and practice that a fresh install of XP usually was worth the effort for both the OS and FS.
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DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200
Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club
Monterrey, NL Mexico
357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs,
132.3 hours online 255 legs,
668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 22:25 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
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That's good to know Lloyd, thanks.
I'll just have to find a way to store my 120GB worth of data while I reformat this thing LOL
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DVA1044
Senior Captain, B767-300
Joined on January 12 2003
Century Club
"Fly Delta Jets" Roswell, NM USA
127 legs, 388.8 hours
62 legs,
199.3 hours online 2 legs,
5.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 22:29 ET by Lloyd Arms
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LOL Only 120 gb to store? You make it sound like you just got started with FS LOL..
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DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200
Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club
Monterrey, NL Mexico
357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs,
132.3 hours online 255 legs,
668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 22:30 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
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Technically, I just started again a week ago, gotta love college + work LOL!
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DVA6151
Captain, CRJ-200
Joined on July 15 2008
Century Club
Online Century Club
"My ROFLCOPTER goes ROFL ROFL ROFL" Southeastern United States
141 legs, 206.5 hours
137 legs,
199.8 hours online 139 legs,
203.7 hours ACARS 4 legs,
7.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 23:08 ET by Ryan M. Whitford
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dont kill processes
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DVA6659
Captain, B737-800
Joined on November 22 2008
"Long live the Jungle Jets" Atlanta, GA USA
61 legs, 116.1 hours
58 legs,
111.7 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 18 2008 23:18 ET by Trevor Schmidt
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Try defragmenting your Hard Disk a few times.
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DVA4265
Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on March 18 2007
Online Triple Century Club
Quatercentenary Club
"WE BE DELTA, Flossin n' Flyin " Phoenix, AZ USA
430 legs, 2,188.7 hours
398 legs,
2,061.4 hours online 388 legs,
2,045.8 hours ACARS 5 legs,
33.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 19 2008 09:06 ET by Trevir Maidel
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David, you might wanna look into the format. Just a few days ago, out of random. My 3 year old
computer wouldn't boot windows anymore, it would just turn on to a black screen and sit there.
So I lost EVERYTHING possible I've saved for the past 3 years including all my school work.
Good thing I've backed up all my PSS planes.
If I were you, I would make a backup partition of stuff you absolutely wont be able to get
back, Then reinstall windows on your current C: disk. Then drag your files over from the other
partition. I'm gonna get all my stuff back now, then on christmas when I build my new system
transfer all my stuff over so I can fly immediately !!!!
Lloyd what do you mean only 120gb ? 120gb is pretty much every addon possible.
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DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200
Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club
Monterrey, NL Mexico
357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs,
132.3 hours online 255 legs,
668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 19 2008 10:23 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
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Oh, it's 120GB including college, family's files, Matlab, etc, not only FS LOL. I hope I had that much time to fly!
Thank you for your suggestions guys, I'll see if I can find some time to reinstall this thing (notice the anti-Windows feeling in there...)
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