Hey everyone, last night for the first time since I built my new rig in May, I got a blue screen system crash. Part of the text read, from what I can remember that windows has encountered a serious error. I rebooted ok. I then did a defrag and it took alot longer than before?? I was in the great Piper from Digital Aviation at the amazing Hillsboro KHIO by Flight scenery on my takeoff run when it occured. I have not had one crash up till now. Any suggestions?? I hope it was just a fluke and nothing more, or a cleaning is due. It took me from May until now to get everything the way I like, so I hope you guys can help. Thanks in advance.

If its just one time..forget about it. IF it happens again pretty soon, then you may need to run memtest86 (for 12-24 hrs) atleast to see if its a bad memory. If that clears, then you may want to run Prime95 (two instance for both the threads HT/Cores) for 24 hrs. If it fails, then its a problem with one of your hardware (difficult to isolate which one without swapping each piece and running that test again) but if that passes, then its probably one of your drivers... Try to get the latest and greatest drivers and update all drivers and run that test again.Thats what I would do... and thats my understanding. I am not the most knowledgable one here... so I have to tell you that as well. :)And that reminds me... yesterday, I got an awful screeching noise and a Blue screen of death on my Dell XPS gen2 for the first time since I got that PC about 1.5 yrs ago. It was Flight scenery KPDX I was trying to start from in FS9 too. I quickly shut down and rebooted and everything was fine....Hmmmmm...............Manny

Hi Jeff, blue screens are very helpful to locate a problem. :-) Not like CTDs or BSODs where you don't get any info at all. If you blue screen again, make sure you write down what and where it happened. Ergo, the kind of 'Stop' and - equally important - the adress 0x000 etc etc. Punching these notes into a search engine should point to the source of the prob fairly quickly. As Manny mentioned, it often is related to 'something RAM'. Could also be drivers, bios settings, etc, etc. Good luck and kind regards Jaap

Thanks guys. The only problem that troubles me is, I didn't do a thing before this happened. Out of nowhere last night. It happened again tonight. I don't know if an addon can cause this blue screen or not?? Anyway, it was with the DA Piper Cheyenne at Hillsboro, part of the amazing KPDX scenery. It happened again tonight on the exact same runway immediatly after I left the ground at about 50FT-100FT...hmmmmmm. The other thing now is my performance seems to be not as good as it was. I have to try another AC to see what the deal is. Also, I wonder if scenery problems can do this?? I am really good with computers, but when this stuff happens, I just want to pull my hair out. I spent a fortune on this rig this past May, and I hate the trouble shooting process, not to mention the darn computer is only 5 months old. The only hope I have is that it is not hardware related. If I had to reinstall the OS with everything else, I can deal with that. I am just drained of funds for my flightsim obsession now and don't want to start replacing anything. More tests to follow tonight or tomorrow if I have time. If I still have the crashes, I am going to download Mtest and CM DiskCleaner to see if there are memory and or registry errors. I will report back. Thanks again guys for your concern and help with this matter. It is very much appreciated as always. Talk to you soon.