I just upgraded my computer from a AMD 2400 to a Intel P4 3.2 and a new motherboard a ASRock P4VT8+.I have 1 gb of DDRram and a ATI 9800 video card with 256 ram on the card.I am running WinXP Home with Service Pack 1.I uninstalled FS9 and reinstalled today and I am getting a VPU Recover error which says has reset your graphic accelerator as it is no longer responding to graphic driver commands.This only happens in FS9 no other program.I am using the latest Omega drivers RAD_W2KXP_Omega_2567_7z 822.I tried the new ATI drivers and it was doing the same thing so I tried these and still getting the error,does anyone have any ideas of what I should do? Jeffg

Did you format after the upgrade or just put the parts in and turned it on?

I did not format just reinstalled win xp and than uninstalled FS9 and reinstalled it. Jeff

Disable VPU Recover. It's supposed to keep the system from crashing should it see something drastic caused by the video card. In reality all it does is... cause crashes.While you're at it, go into your XP Services and disable "ATI Hotkey Poller" and "ATI Smart". Unless you absolutely, positively MUST make use of the ATI Hotkey function, save the resources (it uses alot) by killing it. Don't know what ATI Smart does, but your system will run just fine without it.Cheers,Greg

Thanks I will give that a try Where do you diable VPU? Jeff

In the video control panel. Right click anywhere on your open desktop> Settings> Advanced> and then you'll see the Control Panel. There is a VPU Recover tab in the CP. Uncheck "Enable VPU Recover".Greg

Did you install the new MOBO's controller chip drivers, i.e, Intel, VIA, SiS, AMD, ALi, NForce.Press Start, Run..., type dxdiag, OK to run the directx diagnostic. Let it stabilize, ensure you are using directx9.0b or c, select the display tab, ensure Directdraw, Direct3d, and AGP accelerations are enabled. If grayed-out, reinstall/update the MOBO'S controller chip drivers. Run the directdraw and direc3d tests.W. Sieffert

I tested my video card under dxdiag and everything runs great and I disabled VPU recover now to see if FS9 will run,let you know. Jeff

Everything works great till I switch to the Altiude Concorde and I get the same error but now with VPU disabled it a MS error,any ideas? Jeff

XP will tell you what .dll is causing the problem. Which one is causing the crash?Greg

All it says is my graphic drivers have been disabled and have to restart.I took a screen shot hope this works. Jeff

Yikes!!! You have a truly serious ouwey in your OS there!.When you changed over from your AMD to Intel system did you reformat your hard drive and then start with a fresh install of Windows? If not you really should.Greg

Jeff, I stuggled with this also with ATI tech support for my 9800xt. It was intermitant......Short version. I got an asus p4800 board with SIS controlers on it. They have the latest driver set. After turning all ram and cpu settings down, and raising one thing at a time through the bios....seems the SIS has a timing issue with agp 8x. Instead of getting a new ATI board, (the ASUS was out of warrenty)...I run it at 4x AGP. All other timing settings are normal. Go into the mobo setup...hit deleat as you boot up, and change your AGP to 4x. Better for a stable system then suffer crash and a few % f/s. Good luck.

You really should format and reinstall XP, thats the best way, to make sure there is nothing left over from the other components.

I did that yesterday backed up everything and formated the drive and went out and bought XP Pro and reinstalled.I have spent much of yesterday putting programs back on and the new ATI drivers and FS9 and so far everything is working fine.I now have a hurricane barrelingdown on North Fla so the computer is now on the back burner while I board up the house.I hope to finsh everything next week,thanks to all who replied and for your help. JeffG