.the final chapter..
Thought the RAM was crook so took it back to supplier A for testing - returned unable to fault.
Local computer guru suggested it was the RAM sockets on mobo - took entire case and contents to mobo supplier
B who wrote up the following fault report for his techie (this is a cut and paste)
"
MB only from us. System has been unstable. System locks in the middle of running Flight Simulator.
Can do it from 10 seconds to 10 minutes. screen, mouse lockes, can't alt crtl del. System can sometimes
lock up in other programs but not as frequently. RAM has been tested ok by Umart. Custoemr has
tried reisntalling windows from a clean start 5 times already with no change. custoemr believes he has
all of teh latest drivers. Customer just recently tried to update the BIOS on the motherboard but after the
updated the system will post but come up saying the CPU overclock has failed and it will not load defaults.
or system can give Cmos checksum bad error.
"
After a week of anxiety received the following diagnosis from supplier B (more cut and paste)
"
Custoemers cpu seems to be causing the system to crash randomly. using the customers cpu on our
test motherboard the system had trouble installing windows xppro and was unstable. using our test cpu
both the test system and the customers system were functioning correctly. I also used a P4 3.4Ghz Prescot to
test the customers system which functioned correctly. All hardware exept for the cpu test ok
"
Took CPU to supplier A for testing - after another week was rewarded with a brand new CPU under warranty from Intel.
Have installed said CPU and after 16 weeks of total frustration my dream machine is now carrying me effortlessly
throughout the flightsim world.
Love to stop and chat Pete but I've got 3 months of flying to catch up on....!!!! Thanks for all your suggestions mate and
who knows - we might meet in cyber aerospace sometime.
Cheers for now
Alan Kilpatrick
