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Hi all.  Just upgraded my system and am getting some strange (well, to me) error msgs from my monitor of all things....it's not software or windows, but the monitor bringing up this msg and halting the program.

Specs:

Gigabyte K7 Triton (GA-7VT600)
VIA KT600 Chipset  ???
VIA VT8237 Integrated Peripheral Controller
AMD XP 3200+
Latest drivers for chipset and CPU
2 512 Mb Kingston 3200 DDR ECC Memory
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro Atlantis 128MB DDR
Catalyst 6.14.10.6451 ATI Driver (the latest)
Windows XP with SP1 and all other updates
AOC Spectrum 9Glr 19" monitor (with AOC's latest driver)
FS2004

What happens:

Just flying around, and when I view in the spot plane  mode (after say 15-20 seconds), the program just halts and the monitor pops up with msgs like these:

Attention  Out The Range
H:178.5KHz V:179.1Hz

Attention Out The Range
H:178.6KHz V:172.6Hz

or

No Signal Input/Disconnect (only happened once, the other times it was the H/V msgs above)

I have to turn the computer off and reboot and everything starts up fine.  It doesn't seem to matter which plane I'm using or which airport.

I do not have settings maxed out, but they are pretty high, as FS2004 detected and set, I guess because of my system.

The only change I made to the settings as FS2004 placed them, was I did check anti-aliasing and bilinear filtering instead of none.  But, I think my system is more than capable of handling this, no?

Appreciate any thoughts/advice?

What Htz have you set your monitor at? On your graphics card settings you can alter the Htz of your monitor.  It will have set speeds for each resolution.  i.e. at 1280x1024 mine is 75Htz.  Try setting it to 60Htz see what happens.

The other thing is ensure Vsync is enabled, again this is an option on your graphics card setting menu.

Thanks Gixer.  I lowered the refresh incrementally, ending up down at 60, and I also have the Vsync activated, and still the same.  FS2004 seems to play a bit longer than before, but still end up with the same error messages  :'(

How new is the monitor? I have to assume it's capable of mutli-sync. Multi-Sync is a feature that determines resolution and freq based on the signals coming in.