November 20, 200421 yr MY BIG FIX.Are you having Blue Screen of Death, Error messages, System slowdowns??? It was happening to me- 3 times in fact! One resulted in a blown CPU. I was getting Microsoft automatic error messages telling me windows has been shut down to protec your computor etc etc.. to remove those drivers and hardware I just installed.... I was so worried, I even considered chucking the whole issue out of the window and taking up golf or something.I had to do some thinking, different thinking, like instead of thinking about complex pc issues, I decided to go with the KISS principle and start checking out things like connections, power supplies and the like. It was then that something dawned on me, as I was fiddling with a new sound card and trying to shoehorn it between the massive graphics unit and the mainboard, I realised-boy, there's not much space left in here and all these modern gizzmos produce a ton more heat than my spectrum 48kever did! Yep, things were getting decidedly sweaty. So extra fan fitted, and case open, and move unit to a well vented area. Result, temps down from a hefty 60-80deg c, to a pleasant 37deg c. My pc is so happy, it is even giving me some extra frames per second before christmas. It never refuses to work now,(touch wood), even keeps working without a single CTD or dreaded blue screen of death. My planes fly like planes, guages are smooth, slide shows are in the past.So I would like to pass on this slightly useful info to you frustrated simmers out there and just tell you that those terrible events you are having, may not the fault of that new aircraft you just paid 30 quid for, but just a simple matter of thermal inefficiency related to the amount of space age heating equipment you just crammed into your little box. So do yourself a favour and follow this google link:---http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=...e&q=pc+cooling+PC Cooling is a very serious matter with today's computers. PC & Server cooling is an essential part of your computers needs. Without the proper system cooling, CPU cooling, Video Card Cooling, Mother Board Cooling, Hard Drive Cooling, and Ram Chip cooling the life expectancy of your PC & Server will be cut short. You can spend so much extra money trying to fix each overheating problem you have or you can look into our new line of System coolers that tackle all of these needs in one easy to use Tower PC & Server Cooling System.Without proper air flow cooling, your computer hardware suffers from overheating. This overheating causes slow downs, system error messages, and crashing. Also, the life expectancy of your PC's components will greatly diminish.HTH
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