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After a year and a half on this computer, FS2004 has decided to restart my computer upon starting the application. It doesn't do it every time - and whether I've recently started my comp, or it's been on all day, doesn't seem to make any difference. I'm shooting 50/50 at best.

As soon as I double click the desk top icon, I hear the drive start up, then the entire comp restarts...

Running Sony Vaio desktop - 512 - 2.4 P4 - have not installed any new anything to the program in most of 12 months...

The error message says a problem with a device driver, yet all checks say the drive is working fine, and works flawlessly on all other applications...

Help?

Joe

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:39 am Post subject:

I have the same setup so I'm going to assume you are running Windows XP.

Click START>RIGHT-CLICK MY COMPUTER>PROPERTIES>ADVANCED>STARTUP AND RECOVERY>SETTINGS> SYSTEM FAILURE>UNCHECK AUTOMATICALLY RESTART

Try running FS9 only this time your system should give you an error message instead of shutting down. If it does what does it say?

Are your virus definitions up to date? Run a complete virus and malware scan. You may also want to go ahead and update your drivers (sound and video card) even though they checkout ok, no harm done if it wasn't the old drivers.

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:08 am Post subject:

Thanks for the reply, Rick!

Yes, XP home SP2. After reading another post, I did uncheck the 'restart automatically' button, double clicked the FS icon, and got the blue screen.

Said: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGE_AREA

Ideas? Seen this before?

I'll try to run AVG this evening, and see what it picks up.
If my memory serves me well, this happened once or twice a few months back, and the problem has only become worse...

Thanks, Joe

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:06 am Post subject:

I've not seen that error message before. I did find this though doing a search for that error on the MS support site.

http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?query=page_fault_in_nonpaged_area&catalog=LCID%3D1033&pd=&spid=1173&mode=r&lsc=0

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=page_fault_in_nonpaged_area%20Windows%20XP

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject:

I think I've solved the issue - atleast identified it!

I figured out how to get the computer to recognize the disk location, and put the CD-rom in the other drive...

It's now loaded without a hitch 5 of 5 times! Very Happy

It must be time to blow the dust out of the computer!!!?????

Joe

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:15 am Post subject:

either that, or the disk drive that you DID have it in was really the DVD-ROM and not the CD-ROM drive. that could happen to the best of anyone, just a simple mistake.

Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:20 am Post subject:

Ah yes - in fact, I've had it in the DVD-rom drive for a year and a half...

But it IS working better in the CD-rom.

I still think it's time for a blow-out, judging from the dust I can see around the mouth of the drives.

Then this evening, flying the Constellation, the entire game shut down when I asked for the GPS...
but probably had nothing to do with the drive issues - probably the typical imperfect world of computers Laughing