Hey guys,

 

I had ordered a 128gb SSD for a laptop that I was planning on buying from newegg, but I ended up not buying, and and I was stuck with the SSD, so I decided to install it into my computer. I used Ben's tutorial for moving FSX and making a link folder to the SSD file of FSX. It was going well, until I decided to take it for a flight in KLAS using Aerosoft's Las Vegas. I got the Duke Turbine up and running, and right when I was taking off, FSX suddenly stopped. It wasn't responding to anything I did, alt-tab, alt-f4, nothing. I decided to hard restart it and see what the problem was. When I got back into Windows, windows froze about 5 seconds in. It too wasn't responding to anything.

 

Confused, I decided to hard restart it again, and this time, my computer didn't even show me the second BIOS screen with the P8Z68-V Pro motherboard. By this time, I was really confused and hoping that I wasn't going to have to reinstall windows and FSX again as I've done it twice in the last month and it is painfully slow, and time consuming to do it correctly. I decided to boot up the Windows 7 cd and do a system restore, with the SSD disconnected. Oh, this was after windows freezing in safe mode the same way that it froze in Windows 7 the previous time. It restored from the CD, but could not find (obviously) the FSX files from the SSD to restore. I rebooted and everything looked fine. I took a test flight again in the QW Avro RJ at LAS again, and it was fine. I also flew the C337 to see what would happen, and it was running smoothly.

 

What do you guys think the problem could have been? It looks to be running fine now, but I don't want the same thing to happen when I'm about to land after an hour and a half flight or something like that. Is there a specific way I should have set up the SSD? I connected it, partitioned it, and formatted it with NTFS, via a guide that I found online. Is there anything else I should do? I also restarted to see what would happen, and it boots just fine.

 

edit: Also, I checked event viewer and there's no signs of critical errors that had happened during that time, aside from the obvious system shutdown was unexpected. I did see a few DCOM got error 1084 critical errors though. What do these mean?

That FSX junction might explain the FSX crashes, although I don't see why would that be. Now the Windows freeze, could be anything. Check your Event Viewer to see if there's relevant info about it.

 

Moving to SSD's requires a number of things to be done. When you do a fresh install of Win 7 it detects if you have SSD's hooked up and does all the job for you, otherwise you have to do it yourself.

 

Partition alignment, TRIM enabled, AHCI ...

 

here's a nice guide

 

http://lifehacker.co...talling-windows