Need Urgent Help.Please Read.Desperate.

[Guest]

Dear all, I am writing and sending this letter to various entities and forums because at this stage I am in a very desperate state. Don

[Tavers]

Alex,I must say it's an excellent system you have there :)I assume you installed all the relevant drivers including the latest Intel INF drivers?Also, a question on the RAM, is it a special pair aimed at Dual DDR use? It could be a factor of your systems instability. Have you tried moving the RAM into DIMM1 & 2 instead of 1 & 3?Do you have any benchmarking tools installed? You might want to give those a try, see if they can benchmark your system without errors.Download, install and run Prime 95. If you can run it without errors, its a good sign. If errors occur its a sign that something isn't configured correctly.It can be found here:http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htmTry 3D Mark & PC Mark from here:http://www.futuremark.com/Hope this helps :)

[Guest]

Hello John, Thanks very much for your time. I will surely download the applications you mentioned and give it a try. One thing that I wish to point out is, that I made a mess in my letter, with a huge typographical mistake, when I stated that my Ram is PC2600, when actually it is PC2100. When I typed that, I was thinking ahead about something else, and mistyped it. So, please, accept my apologies. Thanks once more John.Kind Regards,Alex

[Bert Pieke]

You state "no overclocking".. But you seem concerned about the memory. Are you possibly running the memory at too high a speed (set in the BIOS)?PC2100 only runs at 266Mhz.. you can even try to run it at 200, just to see if that improves stability.. If you have the board set to anything higher than 266, you should expect lockups..

[Guest cw1011]

I think your MSFS2002 performance is right on. If you can maintain 26 fps in complex scenery with all the sliders maxed, you are doing about 50% beter than my system at 1.9 mghz where 15 to 17 fps seems to be the mark, with significant drops in highly complex sceneries like a major airport with lots of AI aircraft. My question to you is how does the machine perform on final to a major international airport with say 75% setting for AI aircraft with a large number of added flightplans from a site like Project AI?Thanks!Colin

[Guest]

Hi, Thanks again for your interest. Actually I am still trying to close all the threads that I opened in various forums around the web. From all the forums that I have posted my letter to (including to Asus & Intel as well), my problem was resolved by a guy in the avsim forum, with the nick: "bailout". He found out that there are a couple of errata in the Intel E7205 chipset that the Asus P4G8X is using, that cannot be resolved by Intel. The first errata can be solved by a board "workaround", and the other errata can be solved by a bios "workaround". This was stated by Intel, and the "workarounds" mentioned are being refered for the board's manufacturer (ie. Asus). When I contacted Asus, they said that they'll call back (after over 30min on the phone explaining exactly the situation), but they never called back. On the other hand Intel gave my some useful information to a certain extent. So, to answer a couple of questions here, I downloaded Prime95, and as soon as I ran it, it gave me an error, but now the system is running rock solid, no crashes at all, although it is stated by Prime95 author that if you encounter and error, then the system is far from being rock solid. Will be doing a format, and installing WinXP by the guide that Mr.Steveo (at Asusboards.com) has issued, and then re-check Prime95. As the system only gained its stability by doing the following: Moved the ram from 1 & 3 to 1 & 2 (I was using only 1 channel;dumb yeah) Removed the converted Sata Hard-Disk back to IDE ATA100 slot. Removed fast-writes from the Radeon's smartgart settings on my Rad.9700 Pro. To answer the last question, when approaching a major heavy traffic airport, or complex scenery, the fps drops to a mere 19 fps, or even 18 at times. It plays between 22 and 18. I was told in various forums, that there is no comercially manufacured machine that can cope with MSFS engine. It is badly programmed from the get go. I mean, that we cannot obtain those high fps in MSFS, even if we had a Pentium 6Ghz, and a Rad.600MHz, because its engine is the culprit of these low fps. I know that I am not stating anything new, but for those who are frustrated (like I was) and think that if by buying the best on the market pc, they are going to have a fluid MSFS2002, then do not bother buying the best, because you won't get that fluidity that we dream about! Maybe this issue will be address in FS2004 or 2006, whatever!Regards,Alex