Keyboard causes Video Freeze

Question

Brook

Trainee

Joined: Mar 12, 2004 Posts: 88 Location: San Francisco, CA

Asked Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:20 pm

Though generally running fine, I am having an occasional problem with video breakdown. Specifically, touching any key on the keyboard freezes the video. It starts slowly--just a brief hiccup--and within a few minutes degrades to where any keystroke freezes video cold (for as long as you hold the key down). You can imagine how this affects trying to smoothly trim your flight.

The dirty solution is to exit FS and re-launch it. Has anyone else seen this and cured it?

(Pentium 1.6g, 512ram, ATI Radeon 9800)

Answer 1 · Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:52 pm

Mason Gilliam (harleyman)

First Officer

Joined: Feb 23, 2004 Posts: 187 Location: Statesville NC

Answered Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:52 pm

Hi brooke....Never heard of that happening.....WOW....

Try Anazyling your C Drive and defrag it......

See if you can free up some space on it...Are you running XP..?????

Answer 2 · Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:21 pm

Brook

Trainee

Joined: Mar 12, 2004 Posts: 88 Location: San Francisco, CA

Answered Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:21 pm

XP...all the Norton utilities running frequently to clean up the hard disk, including weekly defrag (when fragmentation exceeds 5%)

Answer 3 · Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:36 pm

tomthetank

Chief Captain

Joined: Aug 24, 2003 Posts: 3392 Location: Newport S/Wales

Answered Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:36 pm

😕 Try shutting down Norton(and all other non esential progs)
Norton hogs a lot of system resourses
Also shut down and unplug/replug the k/board(I know,but you never know) 🤔

Let us know

Answer 4 · Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:52 pm

Fly Away Simulation (Flyaway)

Site Admin

Joined: Jun 28, 2003 Posts: 1303 Location: UK

Answered Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:52 pm

When it happens, have a look at the task manager and see what program (apart from FS) is hogging the CPU. Also, do you have the latest system (motherboard chipset...etc) drivers?

Answer 5 · Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:39 pm

RadarMan

Chief Captain

Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17928 Location: U.S.A

Answered Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:39 pm

Download this Belarc Advisor" it will give you a detailed list of every part and program on your computer. That way you can find out the type (model) of your motherboard.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Radar