Re: major problems after installing flight simulator!

From: Paolo (Paolo_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:47:02 -0800

Thanks Jimmy (sorry for getting your name wrong in my previous post BTW). As
I said I've already tried doing what you suggested in other threads, e.g.
unistalled and re-installed the video drivers, but no joy. I've disabled auto
restart and I got a 0x0000008E stop message but no reference whatsoever to
the display driver? You mentioned DX update during FS installation, what does
that mean? Can it be reverted?

"Jimmy S." wrote:

> Hi Paolo,
>
> Your system is most likely restarting as a result of a STOP error.
> This might have been caused by the DX update when you installed FS.
>
> To stop this behavior go to Control Panel / System / Advanced /
> Click the Startup and Recovery Settings button / Uncheck the box
> labelled "Automatically restart" under the System Failure section.
>
> To analyze the error, try the steps in: http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm
>
> If the error indicates a file name that begins with ati, or nv (nVidia)
> the most likely solution would be to install the latest drivers using
> the instructions at: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html#drivers
>
> --
> Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
> Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>
>
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> "Paolo" <Paolo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7F6428B3-D873-462A-A6E6-7BF05AE52765@microsoft.com...
> > I've installed FS2002, run it a couple of times with no probs but now every
> > time I start it it causes the pc to restart. Not only that, but since then
> > virtually every other game installed on my pc -Halo, Myst Revelation to name
> > a few- does the same! All these games run fine until now, but the only ones
> > still working are Splinter Cell and Symcity4. I've tried following every tip
> > suggested by Peter S. (unistalled and updated the display drivers in safe
> > mode, uninstalled and reinstalled the games, which incidentally run fine
> > immediately following installation, but only once. I repeat all my games run
> > perfectly prior to installing FS2002, and my system -1.2GHz duron, Nvidia
> > Geforce 2 64Mb, 384MB Ram, XP O. S. is more than capable of running these
> > games. What the heck happened?!? Thanks for every, very much appreciated,
> > suggestions!
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