Having Major Problems

[bmb5150]

So last week I was playing FS9 on a new graphics card (Nvidia GeForce 6200, which was installed several months ago) and when going through the options, the game kicks me out to a blue screen that there is a problem and I have to reboot.  I've already tried reinstalling and it did not do anything.  So how can I fix this if I can?  Prior to installing the Nvidia, no problem.

[FridayChild]

You installed the card months ago, but only played FS9 last week, right?
And the only application giving problems so far is FS9?
Did you completely remove FS9 before reinstalling it?
And have you tried deleting the fs9.cfg file from Documents and settings?
If all the above fails, the problem MAY be due to an incomplete uninstall of the previous card's drivers.
In this case you might want to try to (in this order):
1) uninstall the current card's drivers
2) reboot in safe mode and manually remove all graphic cards from the device manager
3) follow every other step to manually remove all traces of both cards' drivers from the system (follow verbatim the instructions that may be available at the vendors' web sites)... as neither card was never installed
4) reboot in normal mode and install the latest drivers for your current card.
All this at your own risk of course; make a backup or a system restore point before. Good luck!

[born_2_fly]

If this only happened once then I think you may have been a little lot hasty. This could just have been a coincidence that this happened, I have had 1 blue screen in FS before, just after I installed a new joystick. Was this the joysticks fault? No, it hasn't happened again to this day, 1 year on  ::)

So don't jump to conclusions, just try again, if this has happened a number of times I can understand the re-install, but for one blue screen (as you made it seem in your post), I think it was a little drastic...

[bmb5150]

If this only happened once then I think you may have been a little lot hasty. This could just have been a coincidence that this happened, I have had 1 blue screen in FS before, just after I installed a new joystick. Was this the joysticks fault? No, it hasn't happened again to this day, 1 year on  ::)

So don't jump to conclusions, just try again, if this has happened a number of times I can understand the re-install, but for one blue screen (as you made it seem in your post), I think it was a little drastic...

Don't worry, tried several times, but kicked me off each and every time to the blue screen.  So it does not like it's a coincidence.

You installed the card months ago, but only played FS9 last week, right?
And the only application giving problems so far is FS9?
Did you completely remove FS9 before reinstalling it?
And have you tried deleting the fs9.cfg file from Documents and settings?
If all the above fails, the problem MAY be due to an incomplete uninstall of the previous card's drivers.
In this case you might want to try to (in this order):
1) uninstall the current card's drivers
2) reboot in safe mode and manually remove all graphic cards from the device manager
3) follow every other step to manually remove all traces of both cards' drivers from the system (follow verbatim the instructions that may be available at the vendors' web sites)... as neither card was never installed
4) reboot in normal mode and install the latest drivers for your current card.
All this at your own risk of course; make a backup or a system restore point before. Good luck!

I'll see if these work.  The only other game that has a problem is Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, but it's off and on, on problems and I don't play it all that much including this game.  My other games (NASCAR SimRacing & NASCAR Racing Season 2003) work perfectly video wise.  I'll give your suggestion a try thanks!

[vololiberista]

Sometimes the blue screen is caused just by the video card and the MB not getting on with each other.
For example i'm using a Gforce 4 mxd440 with win xp.
in my previous pc with a slightly different MB XP wouldn't work properly and kept freezing within a minute or two.
On my current setup the same card the same XP but rarely any probs except if I'm overclicking the CPU by 16%. Then sometimes the PC just reboots. (I turned off the blue screen as it rarely has any useful info)
Vololiberista