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DVA4614
Captain, CRJ-200
Joined on February 25 2007
Stage 1 Jet Century Club
Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Madison Heights, MI USA
150 legs, 302.0 hours
3 legs,
4.2 hours online
135 legs,
276.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 04 2010 21:24 ET by Peter Tambornini
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Hi guys, i am really stuck here. coputer is a dell, phenom4 quad core processor, 500 watt psu, 4 gig ram, ati5750 gpu! fsx runs great! oh and running windows 7 64 bit. whenever i fly a long flight, il get to my cruise alt, and leave the room for an hr. when i come back my screen is black and does nothing. i have to push the power button to shut down and restart. What do you think could be going on?? Thanks guys!!
Peter TamborniniCaptain, CRJ-200
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DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM
Joined on June 03 2006
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club
"pitchpowertrim.com"
Anderson, MO
619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs,
503.1 hours online
580 legs,
1,026.5 hours ACARS
89 legs,
191.0 hours event
236 legs dispatched, 110.1
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 04 2010 21:44 ET by Michael Brown
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Make sure screen savers are turned off. Is this a recent problem or did it just start?
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DVA8418
Captain, CRJ-200
E-MAIL
Joined on March 21 2010
""I can take you anywhere""
Western United States
20 legs, 19.4 hours
13 legs,
12.7 hours online
14 legs,
12.8 hours ACARS
2 legs,
2.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 05 2010 00:39 ET by Juan Romero
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yea i would agree with michael, make sure your screen savers are actually off and i had this probelem too, all you need to do is make sure the laptop is plugged in and turn off energy saver or whatever the thing is called, like you know, where the computer goes to sleep like 10mins if no activity, stuff like that, but it could be also screensavers too, if you set the computer to go to sleep or turn off after so many mins. and/or u have a screen saver, then once the screen saver start or it goes to sleep its kinda hard to wake it up or return it to a normal state after that expecially when you have the FS running
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DVA5919
Captain, MD-11
Joined on May 13 2008
Everett Century Club
50 State Club
Commuter Conquest
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Quincentenary Club
"...and don't call me Shirley"
Hillsboro, OR USA
507 legs, 1,438.9 hours
4 legs,
3.7 hours online
506 legs,
1,436.4 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 05 2010 13:51 ET by Jack Vogel
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That's really not that much memory, if you are running a complex plane and any other addons, like weather,
you might run yourself out of memory, on my old computer I upgraded to 8G to keep just that problem
from happening.. my current i7 has 12G.
If it happens while you're gone for an hour try staying there and watching it 
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DVA7329
First Officer, B777-200
Joined on September 04 2008
Double Century Club
Middle East
256 legs, 315.9 hours
90 legs,
127.3 hours online
252 legs,
309.2 hours ACARS
3 legs,
6.4 hours event
542 legs, 1,162.4 hours total
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Posted onPost created on
May 05 2010 16:27 ET by Rabee Jibren
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Jack Vogel wrote:
That's really not that much memory, if you are running a complex plane and any other addons, like weather,
you might run yourself out of memory, on my old computer I upgraded to 8G to keep just that problem
from happening.. my current i7 has 12G.
If it happens while you're gone for an hour try staying there and watching it :)
Dont forget to bring some popcorn 
Really jack?
i am planing to upgrade to Win7 64 bit FSX on 3 gigs of RAM ...... ok that shall extend period of savings for a new FSX machine 
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DVA6983
Captain, B737-800
Joined on February 07 2009
Century Club
""Can't, never did anything..""
Phoenix, AZ USA
125 legs, 233.4 hours
4 legs,
7.2 hours online
125 legs,
233.4 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 17 2010 17:21 ET by Dale Westlund
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I am running FSX with my sliders cranked, tons of WOAI traffic, real world weather and traffic at 100% and have no problem at all with my little duo core Q6600, 2.40ghz, 8800GTX, and 4 GB of RAM with only 2.75 usable in windows 7 ultimate 32 bit.. Maybe it's a heating problem? 
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DVA950
Senior Captain, B737-800
Joined on November 19 2002
Online Quadruple Century Club
Millennium Club
Million Mile Club
Events Double Century Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
"Houston, We have a Problem"
Nazareth, PA USA
1,210 legs, 2,875.1 hours
1,147 legs,
2,716.7 hours online
886 legs,
1,977.2 hours ACARS
206 legs,
484.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 17 2010 23:53 ET by Anthony Piasecki
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Dale Westlund wrote: my little duo core Q6600
Uhh I got confused here Duo I thought meant two  and the Q ='s Quad, meaning four
Any hoot Peter, the pc just shut off, or is it running and no screen? OOps answered that on myself if you have to force a hard reset, then you gots yourself an under powered system.
Anthony PiaseckiSenior Captain, B737-800
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DVA6920
Senior Captain, MD-11
E-MAIL
Joined on January 24 2009
Century Club
"Another day in the office..."
Parker, CO USA
163 legs, 828.1 hours
28 legs,
44.1 hours online
162 legs,
816.9 hours ACARS
5 legs,
9.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 18 2010 15:53 ET by Tom Sanders
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Is the graphics card you are using an upgrade or did it come in the dell computer. The reason I ask is because looking at that card on newegg it states "System Requirements Minimum 450 Watt Power Supply Requirement". I know you have a 500 watt, but with everything else, you might be pushing your power-supply to the limits, unless everything came in the computer installed by the factory.
Tom SandersSenior Captain, MD-11
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