Crashing and burning on new system

[lordofyardley]

My FSX keeps crashing after a few minutes of play. Everything just freezes up accompanied by a machine gun sound and sometimes is followed by the dreaded blue screen before resetting. Have all the updates installed on a brand new from scratch system with Vista 32 Home Premium installed. The only application loaded is FSX. Originally I had 4 GIG RAM installed and nothing would work but removing 1 gig of RAM helped get things to work. The CPU is constantly going to 100% so I am getting a new one because Intel thinks it may be bad. Temps run 41C max on CPU. I reduced FSX settings from Ultra high to high and even medium but still crashed after awhile (1 to 5 minutes) no matter which aircraft was involved (Trike or B747).

The system is a home built and gets a 5.1 rating from Vista because the CPU is only getting 5.1 while Video card comes in at 5.9:

ASUS P5SNLI socket 775 motherboard
Intel Core2 Duo E6400 2.13ghz CPU
Ultra XVS 700 Watt Power supply
Ultra X-Wind Copper Fan 2200 RPM 775 up to 3.8ghz for cooling the CPU
3 each OCZ Platinum Rev 2  1024MB PC6400 DDR2  800Mhz RAM
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB PCIe w/dual DVI
2 each Seagate 250gb serial AATA w/NCQ  7200/8mb/SATA-3G  running mode 0 RAID
CH Rudder pedals
CH Throttle Quadrant
CH Flight Sim Yoke
Samsung  244T  24 inch 1900x1200  1000:1 LCD Monitor
Logitech G15 keyboard and G7 Laser Mouse

Microsoft is trying to figure it out too. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas to keep me from crashing and burning?

[Brett_Henderson]

That's going to be a tough one to diagnose...  I wouldn't even try until you get the new CPU... then start trying to eliminate possible causes... I'd be suspect of the mother board, too. Working on 3GB, but not 4GB of RAM futher confuses the issue.

Try posting this in the hardware section...

[GunnerMan]

I had the same thing happen to me yesterday, san Diego to Chicago, about half way through flight, I started cycling through views real quick and the same crash happened. First time it's happened to me though. BTW Welcome!