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AFV313
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on June 11 2010
Diplomatic Mission
Pushing Tin Club
Online Millenium Club
Globetrotter Extraordinaire
The Penguins Of Madagascar
Double Millenium Club
50 State Club
Boeing Buckle Down
Four Million Mile Club
GVA 10 Year Anniversary

"Come fly with me, lets fly, lets fly away!"
Howick, KwaZulu-Natal ZA

2,941 legs, 9,560.6 hours
1,901 legs, 5,926.6 hours online
2,853 legs, 9,199.0 hours ACARS
58 legs, 272.0 hours event
350 legs dispatched, 155.5 hours

Posted onPost created on August 10 2010 16:06 ET by Robert Armstrong

I hope I am posting this in the right place.

Anyways here goes. I recently replaced my motherboard due to some faults in the old one. Before i replaced it, everything was working perfectly, ACARS, FSUIPC, etc. Now after installing the new mobo I had to reinstall FSX, so i reinstalled everything to go with it. (FSUIPC and ACARS along with the fleet aircraft) now when i load up a flight there is no Add-on menu. So i cant start my flight in ACARS because by the looks of things FSUIPC is not installing properly. I have tried reinstalling everything, running with admin rights. deleting my modules folder and reinstalling FSUIPC, even recreating my dll.xml file. Nothing has helped frown

Any ideas guys?

Robert Armstrong

DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200

Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club

Monterrey, NL Mexico

357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs, 132.3 hours online
255 legs, 668.3 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 10 2010 18:33 ET by David Eugenio Gomez

That's weird. I might be mistaken, but after reinstalling a motherboard, don't you need to reinstall everything? Windows and the rest of the stuff...

David Eugenio Gomez (DVA1933)

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

Posted onPost created on August 10 2010 19:05 ET by Michael Brown

I'd wipe the drive and start over .... Also, when you install FS install it in its own directory. Don't install it in C:\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Games\FSX .... install it c:\FSX

I find that having FS (FS9 or FSX) in the Program Files directory gives too many problems because of the directory protected status.

Michael Brown (DVA3196)

DVA7636
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP

Joined on August 11 2009
50 State Club
Events Double Century Club
Burbank 250 Club
Quincentenary Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
Globetrotter
Black Pearl Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"Uses "Sparkly Eyes" Technique on ATC"
Channelview, TX USA

588 legs, 1,196.5 hours
572 legs, 1,164.8 hours online
586 legs, 1,192.9 hours ACARS
287 legs, 572.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 10 2010 20:57 ET by Tracy Norris

Robert,

Did you replace the motherboard with the exact same make and model? Did you restore everything from a backup?

If you swapped out the motherboard and tried to boot off the old drive then Windows is truly freaked out. It went to sleep thinking it was a middle-aged man with a bald spot and a bum knee and woke up the next morning as a 6 year-old girl wearing a flowered dress! eek

It's a horrible analogy but I use it to illustrate that all of the hardware, interrupts, capabilities, processor, RAM, etc are totally different from what it "remembered" when it went to sleep for the final time.

If it's all different, then get a new hard drive, do a fresh install of Windows and get everything updated. THEN plug in your 'old' hard drive (as a secondary drive) and copy over what you need. You'll have to re-install a bunch of software but that's about the state of things right now.

Tracy Norris

Senior Captain, L-1011-100

Posted onPost created on August 11 2010 15:34 ET by Robert Armstrong

I guess i'll just reinstall windows then! wish me luck!

DVA4965
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on September 07 2007
Online Quintuple Century Club
Million Mile Club
Millennium Club
Everett Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

Saratoga Springs, UT USA

1,195 legs, 3,500.8 hours
566 legs, 825.5 hours online
1,174 legs, 3,437.6 hours ACARS
26 legs, 51.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 11 2010 16:53 ET by Alan Cluff

Good luck! banghead

Alan Cluff

Senior Captain, B737-800

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