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I installed FS 2004 on a Pentium IV, 2.6 GHZ with 256 Meg RAM, 64 Meg Intel 82845G video card.  When I run MS2004, I get the opening screen, with the DC-3, but soon after, the screen goes black.  A flashing message tells me "FREQUENCY OUT OF RANGE, 75.3 KHZ / 75.2 HZ".  (That is Kilo hertz for the first number).

If I run FS2004 in 256 color, it will load, but looks like crap.  I then close it, return to 32 bit, it loads fine, but if I go to full screen, it gives me the same error.

I downloaded and installed the latest driver for the video card and DirectX 9.0 with the same results. 2002 worked great on this machine, what gives with 2004?  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

That is a monitor problem. your vidcard may be pushing it to hard. The higher your resolution the lower the freqs and the lower the res. the higher the freqs (usually). If your Monitor can't go higher than 75kHz, you may consider buying a new one. Just in case your wondering, or don't know, the first number 75.3 is the vertical refresh rate of your monitor. The second is the horizontal rate. The higher the numbers, the less flicker. Your Monitors max rate seems to be 75kHz or 75,000 cycles per second.

Doing what Skittles says (assuming you have XP) when you find the refresh rate section on the "adapter" tab make sure you have checked the box "hide modes this monitor can't display", this way you won't accidentally set your refresh rate to high.
I had a similar problem once and the reason was my monitor  can't run a refresh rate over 85, I had it set higher, opps!

If that does not work try this:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=354
I use it for Half life, but it should work for FS9 aswell.

Doing what Skittles says (assuming you have XP) when you find the refresh rate section on the "adapter" tab make sure you have checked the box "hide modes this monitor can't display", this way you won't accidentally set your refresh rate to high.

Thanks for the backup.