MD-11-FS91 - All Engines shut down in flight

[Borsi 0]

Hello, my name is Boris and since two days I really have unknown problems with my beloved MD-11:I really do hope anyone can help me!Since a long time I fly the wonderful MD-11 of PMDG on FS9.1. At the beginning I never had problems with it. Now I had to re-setup my whole home network computers because something went wrong.Since the system is setup for new I have problems with the MD-11 in flight!At cruize level 340 I could fly yesterday for 2 hours with no problems. Then suddenly all 3 engines went down.!!!? They made a shutdown themselves fully automatically!! The plane was on autopilot and autothrottle and flew on NAV and PROF. No special weather situations. Windhield heat on. Eng and wing anti ice off. Normal cruise. The engines were NOT restartable.My computers are networked via WideFS 6.78 and FSUIPC 3.81. One PC is for FS91, the other for ASV6.5-weather, and the third computer is for FSFlightKeeper. All went okay before. I have installed the first program.exe and then updated to MD-11 for FS2004 v1.20.0055.My system is INTEL i7-940, 6GB DDR3 RAM, GTX-260 Nvidia, XP Home SP3.So what could it be if the MD-11 iselves shuts down all 3 engines in a total normal cruise flight?! :( :( PLEASE ! could you help me solve this problem? Do you know this problem?Thank you very much for any help!Boris, Switzerland

[downscc 1,327]

If you had plenty of fuel, then maybe the problem was that it was too cold?You should have had alerts and alarms. Anything before the shutdown?

[Borsi 0]

If you had plenty of fuel, then maybe the problem was that it was too cold?You should have had alerts and alarms. Anything before the shutdown?

Hello!None of them! No alarms at all. Always silence in the cockpit.Actually it seems I have a lot of problems with the USB-Connectors on the computer. And maybe these Probs with USB are connected with the other probs of shutting down the engines automatically..!? Who knows..!? The PFC Throttle Quadrant is moving forward and backwards itself without doing anything by me ! And this on the ground when the airplane is waiting for engine start. Just APU Power available. So all the system are closed. And then the throttles begin to move. The flaps are going out and coming in immediately again, the warning sound is beeping about Flaps.. and ohter warnings, meanwhile the MD-11 is standing at the gate! It is absolute crazy for me ! Seems my planes are moved by ghost hands..!!? I really never have experienced thing like that in my last 20 years of pc flying !!!! :( :( I have installed the newest drivers I could for graphic, sound, gamecontrollers and..and.and.. So all I could. I really don't know what to do now! Earlier I had a good running FS9.1. The system manager in Win XP shows no yellow or red problems at the time. Seems I will have to quit my service as active pilot at cheese-air.ch ..!!Or is there any help outside in the www...!?Thanks, Boris

[aentwis 61]

It sounds like you have a controller spiking... perhaps your usb hub on the PC has an issue...Do you have a version of FSUIPC registered and installed?I assume the PFC quadrant worked on your old system, so you need to check what the new system is doing differently. Check to make sure the USB ports are configured correctly in the BIOS, as well...Andrew

[Borsi 0]

It sounds like you have a controller spiking... perhaps your usb hub on the PC has an issue...Do you have a version of FSUIPC registered and installed?I assume the PFC quadrant worked on your old system, so you need to check what the new system is doing differently. Check to make sure the USB ports are configured correctly in the BIOS, as well...Andrew

Thanks AndrewI had a look in the BIOS and there is USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 enabled. Don't know if I could do more there? I don't think so. But if you have experience with that please let me know what else especially in the BIOS I coud do.Happy flights to you,Boris