So here I am back at square one without operational Sim software. Win7, despite the fact that I'm logged in to the (hidden) Administrator account with Account Control turned off, refuses to let me copy to one of the windows sub-directories. These dll's are supposed to be resident in the windows sub-directories.Įasy fix: search for the dll's in backups and load then to the appropriate directories - Not! Good news is that all software seems to be present - Bad news is that both P3d and FSX report missing. The original, crashed, HDD, I called E: Drive and went for a stroll in its contents. 268 updates later, I had a working Win7 system back. I plugged that in, called it C: Drive in the Bios, then loaded Win7Pro from my original disk. My solution was to resurrect a 100Gb SSD that came off the boat and had never been used. This time the patient did not respond to surgery and was declared DOA after a few hours of work. Next morning, Saturday, same thing: Bios but no way to boot. Yahoo! everything back to normal - that is, until I put the box to sleep that night. I took the computer apart, removed the mobo battery, the memory, the CPU, cleaned all the components (many dust bunnies living in the fans) then re-assembled. All I got on the monitor was a black screen, no mouse, no joy. Rats! I could load the Bios, but that was it. This always happens just before a long weekend. This is a year-old thread - however, it suits my purpose exactly and rather than bloat MH with another post, I'll add my tale of woe here.īriefly: HDD crash last Friday. Oh - and if anyone has some really good freeware suggestions I'm all ears! My specs are on the left Hopefully if this goes well, I'll be up and raring to go for another epic ATWC sometime. I remember something about a bible for tweaking FSX somewhere, but again treat me like an idiot and walk me through please!

Sadly, I haven't got a clue what to do, and last time I tried I messed it all up somehow.Ĭould someone give me a simpletons guide?

Then, I'd reinstall a clean FSX Acceleration and slowly add stuff back that I know I want. Ideally, I'd uninstall completely, and remove EVERY add-on I've currently got, whilst keeping REX installed on the system. I have REX Essential Plus Overdrive but no disc on me I believe (may have been a download). I have my FSX Acceleration Gold DVD with me, plus Traffic X, AirHauler, and some basic add-ons I got ages ago. I simply have a bloated FSX - currently about 70Gb, mostly aircraft, and a lot of them I don't even like very much. I want to get back into FSX but the load times are ridiculous and SSDs are out of the question sadly (5mins to load to splash screen, another minute to open aircraft list).

Fsx acceleration splash screen