System Hardware: PC | MOBO | RAM | CPU | HDD | SSD | PSU etc

I have a USB adapter hooked up to my system to facilitate toe brake action with my analog CH products setup. Win XP (Home) So when I go to calibrate my joystick I have two listings, one for the yoke, and one for the USB adapter. The system works very well. The problem is that everytime I shut down the machine I lose the drivers for the adapter (when I go to device manager, the USB adapter is gone) - I then have to go into my device manager, uninstall the HID devices, shut down the machine and then at start up I recieve the new hardware prompt which allows me to reinstall the drivers. This never used to happen - a few weeks ago I had to do a repair install of Win XP an…

Quick question, is 52C is normal for hard disk temperature ?

I was wondering if anybody has a good grasp of which settings (mainly display) are limited by which component- CPU, video, memory?For example is turning on extended terrain textures a bad idea if you have a slow cpu, but not such a problem if you have a jammin video card?It would be great to get together a list of settings options and what limits them most.THANKS!btw- I think I'm probably limited most by CPU-Athlon 1800 (1533mhz)768mb pc2100Radeon 9600Pro 256mb

hi all can some please enlighten me as to the difference of these CPU's?thx!

My sim PC has recently started shutting itself down when it's working quite hard running FS2004.Basically it just switches off as if some has pulled the plug and then it won't reboot for a couple of minutes or until sometimes I have switched it off at the PSU and back on again.I built it myself and it has an Asus A7n8xe deluxe motherboard,Athlon XP 3200 processor,2 512 meg sticks of Corsair value select DDR ram, Radeon 9600 XT, 80 gig SATA HDD and a 350 watt PSU.The CPU and MB temps are fine. I have the latest Radeon drivers,latest direct x 9c and everything has run well for at least 9 months.I also tried out 3D mark 2005 and it's shut down 2 out of 3 times running that.…

My computer has the habit of going into standby mode, while in FS2004. But it's not the usual standby mode. The monitors click on and off. The problem was present in Windows 98, but now that I have Windows XP, the problem is worse.The only way that I can get around the problem is to run FS2004 in safe mode, but I can't do that all of the time. Do I need a new video card? Specs512 MB of RAMWindows XP HomeATI 8500 card1.2 ghz processor.AGP slot 2.0 PCI slot available.

I have built my new system (see thread "Built My Dream System), but I do have a software problem that is aggrevating. While flying today, all of a sudden FS9 minimizes and the dial up dialogue box pops up! For some reason this happens periodically but I cannot trace down the cause or trigger that calls up the dialer. I have turned off every automatic updater I can find, Windows, AVG, MS Anti-Spyware, Kodak, HP, and a few others. This was a problem on the old system and now it has appeared on the new one. MS AutoScheduler does not show anything scheduled for auto dialing either. When It happens, I check applications and processess but nothing shows up applications as run…

I will have the OS next week so if you have any horror stories about this now OS please share.About drivers i know both nvidia and ati have 64 bit drivers avaliable, but there dont seem to be drivers yet for many other things. Microsoft says that 32 bit applications will run equal if not better on this OS, i dont think i will get better performance with FS9, but it would be cool if i did.OHN

Well, I have come to the point of considering a modest upgrade to my rig because I have found that FS9 in particular is increasingly hurting performance, especially around major airports with lots of AI. However, since I am not particularly interested in any present games and therefore want to keep my rig going for just another one or two years (unless something should break ;) ), I wouldn't want to spend an awful lot of money right now and really don't have the nerve to reformat and reinstall everything at this time.You can see my current specs in my signature. Considering these, I was thinking about adding another 512 megs of RAM to my system, and possibly going for the…

Review of the ATI Radeon X800 XL 512MB card and some interesting details on whether you need 512MB of graphics RAM.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/05/re...i_512mb_radeon/

A UK magazine says that there are 81 utilities on the SP2 disk and that they can be installed by running suptools.msi in the Support/Tools folder.Has anyone done this?

I have a virus norton cant even pick up on. It comes up, with a countdown from 30secs, saying it will restart FS, then below that, a message is written from the author in spanish. Had a contact translate it, and i will say, he seriously should be skinned for this.Brand new pc i built in dec and somehow i was infected with this virus.Any idea's on a solution? http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/114175.jpg

I using a FX5700 Ultra vid card. I have dual 19"monitors. Both monitors are @ 1280x1024. But when I undock panel to the second monitor and switch to full screen mode, the undocked panels jump back to main monitor and won't allow me to use 2nd monitor. Just wondering if anyone had any ideas why or a solution.Bill M

Hi,I just upgrade my PC yesterday to Athlon 64 3000 Socket 939 with ABIT AV8 mainboard along with 512MB DDR333 memory. I installed everything and works fine, FS9 running in the start screen (Aircraft Selection) and after it loads up everything, it starts with the panel screen than it hangs, no respond and I have to reset my PC. I am using the latest Omega Driver.BTW, my graphic card is GeCube ATi Radeon 9550XT 128 MB.Please help me.Thx

Well, the topic subject is pretty self explanatory. I want to upgrade from my ATI 9600Pro, which BTW is a good VC, but cannot make a desition.I have found the X800 can be found at a cheaper price. I think it must be because of the the newest X850.What do you guys think,Thanks,Leo

This has been bugging me for a while. Whenever I save a website address in Internet Explorer favorites (for example avsim.com) I get a nice little site logo next to the name in the favorites menu of IExplorer. However, in subsequent browsing or other work these logos suddenly disappear to leave the normal Explorer "e" logo in it's place. I really like the logos and losing them all the time and having to resave the site gets irritating. Does anyone have any insight into how I can permanently keep those logos in the Favorites menu?RegardsShez

Hey I wondering if anyone could help me out with this one. I hear a lot of questions/comments about frame rate and performance but little about how FS9 looks visually, as far as smoothness. When I see screen captures from people most of the pictures looks so smooth and real. Whether the frame rate is good or not the screen shots just look real good. My machine however looks kind of rough and just doesn't look anything like what I see on the web. My frame rates right now are anywhere from 13-22 pretty consistently. I have most features enabled to some degree. Detailed clouds, textures, aircraft details. Now mind you that dynamic traffic is set very low and some of the text…

I know nobody outside MS *knows* what is coming in FS10, but some of you who have watched the evolution of FS over the past 20 years may be able to make a much better guess than I can on whether the next version is likely to take advantage of hyperthreading or SLI.Upgrade time here, so some forecasts from the experts here might help me make a better hardware choice with one eye on the possible future.Thanks.--Bryn

I am running out of space on my Dell Dem 4400. I got a SATA drive 76MB 10,000 RPM.Can I use it on dell dim? anyone knows?

The thread "WOULD IT BE WORTHWHILE TO UPGRADE FROM ATHLON XP 2800+ TO ATHLON 64 3500+" in this forum, covered an upgrading of my CPU and mobo, with lots of help and suggestions in the different messages. An overlaying message though, was that my graphics card (an Albatron GeForce4 ti4200 Turbo 128MB) was throttling my new CPU. Rather than adding to the thread, I have created a sequel about upgrading my graphics card since it has relevance to several current messages on the forum.I had planned on getting a Nvidia 6600GT ($Can 300), I have been a Nvidia fan for years, but some of the messages were suggesting that the improvement would not be that significant over my Ti420…

I currently have a gig of RAM installed. 512 MB per stick. However, one stick is 333 MHz and the other is 400 MHz. Therefore, I need to separate them on the motherboard. I can't recall what it's called when you stick them right next to each other. I believe it's called dual or dynamic and single paging mode? I also can't recall what RPM each stick is.Anyway, would there be any appreciable performance gain by adding another tick of 400 MHz RAM, and stick it right next to the other stick of 400 MHz? I'm trying to figure out the source of my stutters and believe me, I have tried EVERYTHING.The rest of my specs...P4 3.00 GHzD865PERL Mobo1024 MB RAM80 GB 7200 RPM HDGeFo…

I really want to upgrade my Nvidia Geforce fx5200 graphics card to an ATI RADEON 9600xt but I only have a 250w power supply...will this cause a problem... because i have seen many ATI RADEON cards needing a minimum of 300w

Hello everyoneI have the Intel motherboard D915GAV and the PCI Express card GeForce N6600.In the motherboard, besides the 2 Power connections (Main power 2x12 connector and ATX12V power 2x2 connector) there is an “Alternative power” 1x4 connector. It the manual it says that this connector provides additional power when using high wattage PCI Express x16 graphics cards.My question is if I should connect this Alternative power to my Power supply. Does my card ( N6600) requires this connection? Stelios

I've had the good fortune to acquire a new system featuring a 256MB PCI Express x16 ATI Radeon X850 XT PE video card.QUESTION: I'm trying to find out where to get the latest drivers for this video card. The current version is 6.14.10.6490 that I downloaded from Dell Computer's website. I checked out ATI's website, but it wasn't clear to me whether the latest Radeon drivers apply to this video card, so I thought I check with the hardware gurus here first.Thanks.-- WaltFlying FS9.1 at 1600x1200x32Intel Pentium 4 640 HT 3.20GHzWindows XP Pro SP21GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)256MB PCI Express x16 ATI Radeon X850 XT PEDirectX 9.0cViewSonic P95f+ 19 inch Ultrabr…

Hello everybody,What would you do if you had the chance :1 Two 3000Ghz based pc's with each a 6800 Gamers Edition graphics card and connected through Wideview.2 A 4000 ghz based pc with two 6800 GT graphics cards ( SLI ) and each graphics card connected to two monitors so 4 in a total.The Wideview setup probably gives more framerates, but does not support AI traffic.The 4000 Ghz setup can show AI traffic over 4 mionitors because they are all connected to 1 pc.The Parhelia was able to drive 3 monitors but the performance was not very good.The 4000 Ghz setup would drive 3 monitors with much better framerates than a Parhelia, but the intyention is to drive 4 monitors.Keep in…