blue screen of death

[bookert]

I am an avid aviator. I used to play FS 2002/2004 on my desk top, but recently moved and all I have now is a dell laptop. I installed FS 2004 and it al works great until I select a flight then it loads and the flight opens up for a few seconds then the screen flashes triangle like images. then the blue screen swoops in with some message and the computer turns off before I can read it. Please help if you can.
Dell Latitude CPX
ati rage v:5
320 mb ram
490 mhz pentium III

[BiggBaddWolf]

Not 100% sure, but I think the blue screen has something to do with memory issues, from what I have been told FS2004 requires at least 512 MB of RAM..but like I said I am not 100% sure, maybe someone else can give you the answers to your problem  ;D

[Rocket_Bird]

naw you don't need 512 mb, im still on my old 256  ;D

It might be your video card... try updating your drivers... if not try reinstalling.

[commoner]

....not only Vid cards cause problems....the Voyetra Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card is one known cause of "fatal exceptions"....if you have such a card then turn off the Direct Sound acceleration...commoner...this tip and many other pointers can be found on the Microsoft Support pages.

[Tom_M]

When you restart the PC, if you have XP, click Submit Error Report. Microsoft's Online Crash Analysis will try and report the cause to you.

[legoalex2000]

i also recieve occasionally the B.S.o.D. and what i do is a full memory dump. i haven't had a problem since i did that. this was, what, 2 months ago...

do a full dump, or at least a kernel dump, my friend did that, said his works now.

just ask if you need to know how

[bookert]

OK,
Hey thanks for all the tips. I am going to try the driver update first and if that doesnt work the memory dump.  Drumlineramos, just so I dont mess up my pc could you exlain how to do the dump with out losing anything?

[Issflareman]

[quote]Not 100% sure, but I think the blue screen has something to do with memory issues, from what I have been told FS2004 requires at least 512 MB of RAM..but like I said I am not 100% sure, maybe someone else can give you the answers to your problem