Michael Van Poecke

Ok dude thanks a lot that really helps, I will look into a new cooler and thermal paste.

Ok so I have ran the stress test using BurnIt Test and it reported no errors except from my optical drive which I already knew about, Then I ran just the CPU test and after a few mins the computer displayed a blank screen and then shutdown just the same as FSX, this is the first time it has done this outside of FSX so im guessing its the CPU overheating it displyed temps of 90 centigrade. So I guess I should try the heat sink paste thing or is there any other way of cooling my CPU and by the way its a laptop not a desktop, Thanks.

OK guys thansk for the advice i will look into the benchmark program and or the heat sink paste. I will post back any results.

Hi guys can anyone help me on here? I have been using FSX for around 2 years now with no problems untill a few months ago when all of a sudden FSX will crash and display a blank screen for 2 second then shutdown my computer. The sim will only run for about 10-20 mins which is extremely frustrating. There is no warning or fatal error message. I have tried deleting the FSX.CFG file incase it has become corrupted but with no joy. I aslo thought the CPU could be overheating so I got a CPU temp monitor, when the comoputer is idle its at about 55-65 centigrade and when FSX is running its at 75-85 centigrade which seems to be normal. Has anyone ever came accross this problem or have any fixes for it? System Spec Win 7 64-bit Home Premium SP1 Intel Core i3 CPU M370 @ 2.40 Ghz Quad Core 4 GB RAM ATI Radeon HD 5470