I recently had to re-install windows XP. I'm now just about back to square one. However, I'm having difficulty with the installation of the MD-11 in both FS9 and FSX. In FS9 everything loads fine, exept after the initialising countdown I have green crosses through the three instruments and there are no displays. The engines are running. All other views, switches etc are working.In FSX the 2D panel is completely grey - just a grey outline, no gauages, nothing. Everything is there when panning around. In 3D mode the instuments are blank as if all power has been turned off - but the engines are running. This happened when first installed into FS9 and FSX after a fresh install of FSX. I then un-installed the MD-11 and re-installed it and still had the problem. I've found in FSX that 'very occassionally' the panel loads fine but if I try changing to another MD-11 engine version I get the grey panel again. In FS9 I get the green crosses each time I load it. I did not have these problems prior to having to re-install windows XP. The reason I had to re-install windows was because I purchased a new video card. I went from an Nvidia 8800 GTX to an Radeon HD4870 X2. The new card didn't work without a new install of windows. Because it happens in both FS9 and FSX I wondering if it has something to do with the video card. Other addons are okay.Any ideas?My system is 64 bit.Bruce Ross

all the correct C++ 2005/2008 stuff installed? That's mostly responible for the ' black screens '.