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Guaranteed blue screen error everytime I fly |
DVA3952
Captain, MD-88
Joined on September 07 2006
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"Airbus, Mcdonnell Douglas" Chicago, IL USA
85 legs, 161.3 hours
51 legs,
106.0 hours online 77 legs,
141.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 08 2009 16:21 ET by Alex Jevdic
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Every single time I try to fly, my PC shuts down due to a blue screen error. I'm basically grounded until I resolve this, it doesn't matter what plane I fly, it happens pretty much every time I fly. This is the message that the bug reporter from MS:
"You received this message because a hardware device, its driver, or related software has caused a blue screen error. This type of error means the computer has shut down abruptly to protect itself from potential data corruption or loss. In this case, we were unable to detect the specific device or driver that caused the problem"
Virus scan turns up nothing, deleting a few spy bots didn't do the trick. Last month BS's used to be a rare thing for me, now I can count on it occurring when I fly.
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DVA3280
Senior Captain, B767-300
COMM E-MAIL
Joined on June 28 2006
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1,235 legs, 3,325.6 hours
1,200 legs,
3,254.3 hours online 1,144 legs,
3,053.6 hours ACARS 259 legs,
682.3 hours event 211 legs dispatched, 126.8
hours
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Posted onPost created on
March 08 2009 17:17 ET by Robby Chiste
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Reformat, maybe?
Regards,
Robby ChisteSenior Captain, B767-300
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DVA3952
Captain, MD-88
Joined on September 07 2006
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Airbus, Mcdonnell Douglas" Chicago, IL USA
85 legs, 161.3 hours
51 legs,
106.0 hours online 77 legs,
141.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 08 2009 17:39 ET by Alex Jevdic
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Oh boy that means I have to back up a ton of things. This only happens with FS, America's Army, Sims 2 doesn't cause these errors, and I reinstalled 4 times this year.
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DVA6688
Captain, L-1011-100
Joined on November 22 2008
Beaverton, OR USA
98 legs, 194.6 hours
93 legs,
187.0 hours online 86 legs,
177.7 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
March 08 2009 19:03 ET by Scott Ring
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nvidia card? I have seen alot on the nvidia forums
google: fs9 blue screen nvidia (or whatever)
I think they were trying lower resolution
and/or upgrading video drivers
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DVA3952
Captain, MD-88
Joined on September 07 2006
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Airbus, Mcdonnell Douglas" Chicago, IL USA
85 legs, 161.3 hours
51 legs,
106.0 hours online 77 legs,
141.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 08 2009 21:30 ET by Alex Jevdic
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I use an ATI Radeon 200X express.
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DVA6983
Captain, B737-800
Joined on February 07 2009
Century Club
""Can't, never did anything.."" Phoenix, AZ USA
125 legs, 233.4 hours
4 legs,
7.2 hours online 125 legs,
233.4 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 08 2009 23:14 ET by Dale Westlund
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The only time I've ever had any kind of problem like that was not a blue screen but rather my screen would look kinda like when the tv goes off the air and has those lines accross the screen, except mine were going up and down on the screen and I could see my home page behind it or whatever but I soon figured out that my video card was breathing it's last few breaths of life.. Radion 9800 pro.. I finally went and got a new video card when it got so bad I could'nt make out anything on the screen.. Problem solved.. Not sure why this is happening to you.. Hope you get a handle on it.. I know these things can really frustrate a person..
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DVA3952
Captain, MD-88
Joined on September 07 2006
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Airbus, Mcdonnell Douglas" Chicago, IL USA
85 legs, 161.3 hours
51 legs,
106.0 hours online 77 legs,
141.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 11 2009 13:05 ET by Alex Jevdic
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Looks like a reinstall fixed it, but I tried everything in my power to avoid it.
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DVA3952
Captain, MD-88
Joined on September 07 2006
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Airbus, Mcdonnell Douglas" Chicago, IL USA
85 legs, 161.3 hours
51 legs,
106.0 hours online 77 legs,
141.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 10 2009 13:18 ET by Alex Jevdic
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Now I have the problem again, except my computer just shuts down w/o warning, no actual Blue Screen or nothing. Happens almost every flight.
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DVA6922
Captain, B737-800
Joined on January 14 2009
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"Takeoffs are Opt. Landings are Mand." Edmond, OK
147 legs, 291.6 hours
140 legs,
282.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 14 2009 13:10 ET by Jonathan Cope
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Ok Alex, here's what you need to do. Whenever it comes up with that blue screen again, write down the code it gives you. It'll be error code something similar to 0x00000000000D1 or something like that. That code tells you why it is blue screening on you. If I had to guess, it sounds like your computer is overheating somewhere. Make sure the inside is free of dust, especially around the fans, and go from there. Blue screens can mean hardware or software. In my experience as a computer field tech repair person, in the 13 years I've been doing this pretty much, most of the stuff I've seen is usually software, but I have seen a lot and I do mean a lot of hardware blue screens. It could be everything from CPU over heating to, video card over heating, to power supply going out and not providing enough power, Ram could be going bad, even if it is multiple sticks and one of the sticks has gone bad but the rest work perfectly fine. There really is a ton of possibilities it could be and we need to look at all angles.
On top of this, the software point of view, a driver could have gotten corrupted, although you have reformatted 4 times this year you said, maybe getting the drivers from somewhere else might do the trick. I say this because I installed Vista Ultimate 64 bit on my computer on Tuesday and when I tried to install the Satalink controller driver from ASUS's website, it kept blue screening me. It took me 5 tries to get it to install correctly. I got the driver to work correctly from Microsoft's windows update website. It is odd that the manufacturer of my M/B, their driver causes me to Blue Screen, but the driver on microsoft's site works just fine. Possibly a bad upload or corrupt driver on ASUS's part they put up there.
If you got any other questions please let me know, I've seen thousands upon thousands of blue screens and while they all do stink, they always give a code to what actually failed.
Jonathan CopeCaptain, B737-800
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DVA6824
Captain, B747-400
OLP
Joined on January 03 2009
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Watlington, Norfolk GB
536 legs, 1,434.5 hours
315 legs,
538.9 hours online 525 legs,
1,402.4 hours ACARS 10 legs,
17.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 14 2009 16:36 ET by Gary Morris
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To add to what Jonathan said, On the second or Third line there will be text similar to
'DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL'
Let us know what yours says
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DVA5831
Captain, CRJ-200
Joined on April 17 2008
United Kingdom
34 legs, 69.2 hours
20 legs,
53.7 hours online 30 legs,
65.9 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 15 2009 10:58 ET by Tyrone Westall
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I've had blue screen lots of times when it comes to gaming, narrowed it down to my rubbish graphics card not supporting certain parts of the game (that's on-board graphics cards for you though)...popped a new graphics card in and no problems after that.
Do you use a joystick? If so have you tried playing the game without that? Also unplug all other USB devices. Could be a faulty USB device/USB port.
Tyrone WestallCaptain, CRJ-200
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DVA3952
Captain, MD-88
Joined on September 07 2006
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Airbus, Mcdonnell Douglas" Chicago, IL USA
85 legs, 161.3 hours
51 legs,
106.0 hours online 77 legs,
141.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 15 2009 13:31 ET by Alex Jevdic
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Well I'll try to fly tonight and if it happens I'll post what I find.
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DVA3952
Captain, MD-88
Joined on September 07 2006
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Airbus, Mcdonnell Douglas" Chicago, IL USA
85 legs, 161.3 hours
51 legs,
106.0 hours online 77 legs,
141.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 16 2009 17:10 ET by Alex Jevdic
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Got a BSOD while flying from ATL but I couldn't make anything out, the words were scrambled as in there were just white rectangles instead of lettering so I couldn't get no code or nothing.
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DVA6922
Captain, B737-800
Joined on January 14 2009
Century Club
50 State Club
B737 50 Club
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"Takeoffs are Opt. Landings are Mand." Edmond, OK
147 legs, 291.6 hours
140 legs,
282.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 17 2009 07:16 ET by Jonathan Cope
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That definitely sounds like a hardware sort of issue there, probably overheating. Overheating causes hardware to put out some odd text, usually coming across as garbage type stuff. I'm not saying for certain this is what it is, but to me, this is my first guess w/o actually looking at your computer. I would see about opening the case and blowing some dust out and then try again.
Jonathan CopeCaptain, B737-800
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DVA6824
Captain, B747-400
OLP
Joined on January 03 2009
50 State Club
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Piranha Club
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Online Triple Century Club
Watlington, Norfolk GB
536 legs, 1,434.5 hours
315 legs,
538.9 hours online 525 legs,
1,402.4 hours ACARS 10 legs,
17.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 17 2009 07:21 ET by Gary Morris
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Here's a stab in the dark......
Go Start > Right click my computer > manage
in the left hand nav bar, click Device Mananger
Click on your graphics, sound, usb, processor, motherboard etc. and go to the vendors website and see if they have any updates
I know with my laptop i never used to be able to run FS98 without it freezing and throwing a BSOD but now they updated the GPU driver and im up and running again
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DVA5295
Captain, B737-800
Joined on December 15 2007
Bangalore, Karnataka India
44 legs, 97.0 hours
35 legs,
81.0 hours online 42 legs,
92.8 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 17 2009 16:57 ET by Preetham Kumar
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all bsod gives the file which is causing the problem, for eg if its display problem it will give like ndisp.dll for nvidia cards, atidrv for ati cards.
check again, so that we can know which hardware is causing the error.
Preetham KumarCaptain, B737-800
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DVA3952
Captain, MD-88
Joined on September 07 2006
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Airbus, Mcdonnell Douglas" Chicago, IL USA
85 legs, 161.3 hours
51 legs,
106.0 hours online 77 legs,
141.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 18 2009 13:08 ET by Alex Jevdic
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I updated my ATI driver and I cleaned out my case/hardware so I'll see if that works. Thanks for showing the easy way of updating drivers Gary.
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DVA3952
Captain, MD-88
Joined on September 07 2006
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Airbus, Mcdonnell Douglas" Chicago, IL USA
85 legs, 161.3 hours
51 legs,
106.0 hours online 77 legs,
141.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 20 2009 19:53 ET by Alex Jevdic
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here is the code, 0x0000000 0x0000002 0x0000001 0x804FF50C
gonna open up my case and see if overheating is the problem.
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DVA5595
First Officer, B767-300
Joined on February 21 2008
Century Club
"Flying High" Spring, TX USA
111 legs, 396.2 hours
7 legs,
13.6 hours online 108 legs,
390.2 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 21 2009 02:47 ET by Paul Davies
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Either overheating, not enough power, or you've overclocked your CPU too much. I've had all three happen to me, causing the BSOD and immediate shut down like you've described. So make sure you have a large enough power supply (this can happen if you've upgraded graphics cards on a stock PC). After buying FSX the day it came out until only about 2 weeks ago I've had nothing but problems with FSX. But I've installed FSX on its own drive and it's worked like a charm ever since!
Paul DaviesFirst Officer, B767-300
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DVA6991
Captain, B757-200
Joined on January 10 2009
Cedar City, UT USA
14 legs, 33.2 hours
14 legs,
33.2 hours online 13 legs,
31.2 hours ACARS 1 legs,
1.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 27 2009 01:22 ET by Gabriel Allred
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0x0000000 error codes usually only show up if there is a registry problem. Once in a while I used to get an error that starts with that and since I started defragmenting my computer regularly I haven't had that problem.
Gabriel AllredCaptain, B757-200
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DVA7407
Captain, CRJ-200
Joined on June 07 2009
Kent GB
14 legs, 23.6 hours
14 legs,
23.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
June 13 2009 14:57 ET by Daniel Inwood
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This used to happen to me a lot. It was my graphics drivers, I strongly advise anyone with this sort of problem to update their drivers first... Worked a treat for me
Daniel InwoodCaptain, CRJ-200
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