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Hi,

I've just changed my parallel ATA hard disk with a serial ATA one, reinstalled a fresh copy of Windows XP PRO SP1, updated motherboard drivers to the latest available (chipset i848, Asus P4P800-SE), installed FS 2004 but it doesn't want to start.
After the installation, the first time I've launched it, it generated scenery database,index etc but after that it hung up.
I tried to launch it into safe mode (not windows safe mode), I tried to restore default parameters but it always hangs up.
It seems the problem is a module named "hungapp".
If I connect the old hard drive and I boot the system from it, everything works fine so I don't think something has broken after I changed the hard drive.
Booting from the new disk, FS 2004 is the only one program installed so far so I don't know where the problem is...actually I've reinstalled FS2004 several times in the past (in the old hard disk) but I've never got problems.
Is it something related to the serial ATA drive? But I don't think I'm the one and only to use this kind of hard drive.
Going around on the net searching a solution I found that many suggest to defrag the hard disk...but it's a new installation with only the operating system, drivers and FS 2004 so I don't think it's a defragmentation problem.
Any suggestion?
The video card is a GeForce MX440 64 MB AGP 8X with nvidia driver 56.72 (the same release I have on the old hard drive) and I'm playing with the no-cd patch.
I've not yet installed the FS9.1 update.
Thanks in advance, best regards.

Bob

PC Configuration:

P4 2800 MHz FSB 533 MHz
768 MB RAM
ASUS P4P800-SE ( i848 )
HDD Hitachi 7k80 80GB SATA II (previous HD was a Maxtor 60 GB PATA)
GeForce 4 MX440 64 MB AGP 8X
SB Live !

Did you ever modify any of the files by adding new scenery, planes, or addon scenery? If you did you may have not installed it correctly and need to reinstal FS9. Usually when this happens you may want to uninstall it and reinstall the fs9. That usually takes care of any of the problems. IT may take a little bit of time but is well worth it. When you uninstall make sure you delete the folder as well.

I did it the first time I saw FS 2004 didn't start.
So I uninstalled, deleted the folder and reinstalled.
I didn't add any add-on so the installation is the basic installation.
But it doesn't start as well.
I want to try to copy the old disk over the new with Norton Ghost to check if it may be something related to the new disk or not.
If it will work then maybe the cause could be the chipset driver that is a different release of the one installed on the old hard drive.
Thank you in the meanwhile...

Are you sure it installed Direct x again if it did try running dxdiag it might help it will show if there is a problem anyplace. you can also check out your device manager to make sure you are not missing any drivers for anything. If your device manager has any yellow flags in it there is a problem that needs to be solved.

Thank you for your answer....I did several tries and I found that the problem was the release of the chipset drivers.
I don't know why but installing the latest FS9 hangs but installing the release given with the motherboard it works !!....mistery....
Anyway now I got  my FS2004 back working and that's what it's worthy eheh
Greetings....