System Freezes

[epilot]

My system: PIII 500, 128mb ram, 32mb nVidia Riva tnt2 agp graphics, soundblaster audiopci 128d, 19" monitor, dsl, 20gb hd, win98, ch products joystick, rudders, throttle.

Problem 1: system locks up while in flight.
Problem 2: the box for typing in radio messages disappears and have to relog on to reaquire. Am i hitting a wrong key?

[214thCavalier]

Ok for the discos totally diff system to mine but i was getting discos by the bucket load.
"Seems" to have been cured for 2 days now and no discos, by reinstalling DX7.0a and changing AGP aperture from 64mb to 256mb in Bios.
Now if only my connect was as easy to cure  

[Mark Luper]

epilot,
another thing to check is to make sure you don't have any IRQ conflicts that could be causing your lockup. Check to make sure that your sound card isn't using a IRQ that something else is using. That could also cause your problem with lockups.

As far as the text buffer disapearing there isnt a toggle key to turn it on and off only one to make it big and small. Next time it disapears press the "~" key to make it big and see if it shows up. You can drag it around on your screen with your mouse and I am wondering if you are accidentaly dragging it down where it can't be seen. I normally run mine in the top right corner of the screen so it doesnt cover the gauges.

Hope this helps.

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MarkAT

"It is not the critic who counts,
it is the man in the arena..."
Teddy Roosevelt

[Heater]

 

Originally posted by epilot:
My system: PIII 500, 128mb ram, 32mb nVidia Riva tnt2 agp graphics, soundblaster audiopci 128d, 19" monitor, dsl, 20gb hd, win98, ch products joystick, rudders, throttle.

Problem 1: system locks up while in flight.

By Lockup's you mean screen freezes or black screen? and you you have sound playing or not? What version of drivers you using for the video card? are you using DX7 or DXa?

 

Originally posted by epilot:

Problem 2: the box for typing in radio messages disappears and have to relog on to reaquire. Am i hitting a wrong key?

This sounds very much a video driver problem.
see above questions

BTW I do make it Calf.in the LA area about 4-5 times a year So I can take you up on your offer to meet  



[This message has been edited by Heater (edited 10-17-2000).]

[bloom25]

Here's another thing to try.  MAKE SURE that your soundcard is not in PCI slot 1.  (The one right next to your AGP slot.)  If it is, no matter what, it is often going to share resources with the video card.  I avoid using this slot unless I absolutely have to.



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bloom25
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