SP1 - Feedback

Well I have been playing with FSX since it's launch and although I only have one issue which is a sound issue everything worked well.

I installed SP1 over a new install following the removal proceedures along with a re-boot and twice now the system has frozen and crashed.

I did what the forum said to the letter so I am now in the middle of de-installing and re-installing again.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe after I installed FSX again I did not run it before applying the patch.

My sound issue which has been here from the beggining is a noise/scratchy when the ATC talks and also when I swap views from outside and go back to the cockpit. I have to cycle through the views again. I also noticed it sparadically on certain flap drops.

Anyway just thought I would let you know this and if anyone has an idea please help.

my system specs below.

Name AMD Turion 64 ML-44
Specification AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-44
CPU Clock Speed 804.1 MHz
Clock multiplier x 4.0
HTT Bus Frequency 201.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 1024 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 804.1 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 128 bits

Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer alienware
Motherboard model Aurora m9700, AB040
BIOS vendor American Megatrends Inc.
Chipset nVidia nForce4 rev. A3
Southbridge nVidia nForce4 MCP rev. A3

Graphic Interface PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width x8
PCI-E Max Link Width x16

Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 2048 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 160.8 MHz
FSB😀RAM CPU/5
CAS# Latency 3.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 8 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (TRC) 11 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks
Command Rate 2T
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 PDP Systems DDR PC3200 - 1024 MBytes
Module 1 PDP Systems DDR PC3200 - 1024 MBytes

Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX version 9.0c