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Hello Fellow Simmers,I am looking for suggestions for a replacement motherboard for my FSX & DVR (SageTV) rig. That is all I use it for. Currently I am using a Gigabyte P35-DS3R with:E6850 Processor2Gb Oz DDR2 1066 RAM500 Gb SATA driveEVGA 8800 GTS video cardLinksys PCI wireless cardTV tuner PCI cardSoundblaster PCI card600w power supplyThe biggest reason for changing it is to reduce power use. The PC wont come out of Windows standby cleanly, and can't wake it up simply by moving the mouse or hitting a key on the keyboard. This is a must. So the system stays running full time which is a waste of energy and thus too much heat.One feature I really like about the Gigabyte board is its CPU fan control is well customized to map the fan speed to the temperature range of your choice. Being a DVR, it needs to stay quiet when not cranking hard with FSX.On very rare occasions it will reboot on me while sitting idle and the clock on the CPU will revert back to some date in 2006. So it has some issues. I had a P35 Abit board that worked well with these items but opted to trade for better overclocking features. Guess that was a mistake.So in a replacement board, features I am looking for:- support the components listed above- cleanly can go in Windows standby and wake up via keyboard/mouse movement- fan control like the Gigabyte - can assign fan speed to specific temp ranges- good mild overclocking features- PCI Express 2.0 x16, and 3 PCI slots - ATX sizeAny suggestions? Thanks!

I too have noticed these same symptoms. I know I am flying into and landing into very different weather conditions from where I started but they dont match reality.

Thanks for the tip! I had my cloud draw distance set to the max setting which most likely did not help things. I pulled it back to 70 miles per the manual recommendation and will try the 5 cloud layers and if it happens again, and if it does will try 3. I'll reset to the same timeframe and refly the flight. Meanwhile I had a nice flight from PHX to LAX with no wind issues.

Hello HiFi Sim,Thank you for continuing to expand and improve upon your products. I upgraded from ASX to ASA and tried a few flights. Visually I am liking the improvements with the clouds and distance haze. But I am hitting some show-stoppers which is giving me troubles. The only changes I have made since installing are:- Set Automatic Downloads from 15 minutes to 10 minutes.- Disabled startup sound effect.- Increased max cloud layers from 5 to 7.- Turned on Enable Direct Wind Control and Smoothing.Today I conducted two test flights, ORD -> EWR departing at around 9:30am and CLE -> EWR departing at around 3:30pm. Precip, clouds, and winds were what was expected but on both flights, the same two issues occurred in western PA.Wild Wind Shifts:Was expecting winds from 235-245 for the trip with winds around 95-105 kts for both flights. That is what I got until I flew into the western PA area, then the it started shifting quickly (but smoothly) over 300 degrees around from the right to head on then to the left side of the aircraft in a matter of 20-30 seconds. After a few minutes I swung around again to the original direction. This happened several times on the first flight. The second flight the same thing, but even broader span of direction and frequency, again in western PA. FSX Crash to desktop - Out of Memory errorOn both flights after about 10 minutes of wind shifts in central PA, FSX would crash with an out of memory error. FSX has never done that on my PC and has only started doing so with ASA. After the first FSX crash, I rebooted the PC since it was not rebooted after installing ASA just to be sure everything was set right. After a fresh reboot the second flight was conducted which FSX crashed with ASA.My computer specs are below and haven't changed anything except the regular MS patches, ASX and XGraphics updates for the past year.Windows XP SP22Gb RAME6850 Core 2 Duo, no overclockingEGA 8800 GTS video cardFSX SP2 - 10.0.61472.0 (fsx-sp2.2007.1210.2023)Aircraft: LDS 767-300I will try other parts of the country to see if its bad weather data (or a Bermuda triangle effect) in western PA is getting me or what.Thanks for any suggestions and happy holidays!

I wonder if its a 2-digit limitation in that display line? I flew through Dean and Flosse a few times and noticed the same thing. Though on the LDS767 EFIS display, it does show the wind speed in the 100's even though the top line is stuck at 99.It doesn't appear to be limited by aircraft as I was able to find a strong tailwind to get into the eye of Dean at just the right altitude.. in the Cessna 172! I had a good 110kts tailwind into the thing but it continued through the eye and out the other side... still with winds in the same direction and speed. Something to look at for future weather engines I guess. Still way fun! Here are a few snips from within the eye of Dean. You can see the ground speed on the GPS is kinda crazy.