twanut

thanks for your reply. i'll try to explain the sound and what happens during my FS9.1 crash. I exit FS 9, and the FS 9 window abruptly disappears. Then there is this ghastly silence. Then my CD rom drive fires up and starts spinning. Then that wierd sound. It's like some port is opening up, or the sound the modem makes just before it actually dials the internet number. Like a hollow click from the back of my hard drive. Thanks for your input. I'll try the "ruling out the dll manuever" This is a problem i can live with, but it's just a little irritating not to be able to close FS9 like normal people. I just recently found a way to close FS 9 without having to hit the end task button when i shut down my computer. I hit control alt delete after closing FS 9. Then i select "~e5d141.tmp" and hit end process. When I do that FS 9 Exe disappears along with it and I can shut down my computer normally.

hello mr. dowson, when i installed XP service pack 2 and then FS 9 update a strange thing began to happen. FS 9 won't shut down. it crashes on exit and i have to shut it down manually. the module it blames is the "weather.dll" in fact, my computer makes a funny sound while FS 9 is crashing similar to the computer trying to access the internet, even though i'm already connected via dsl. i also was clicking around in my folders and found some kind of log that said my internet explore was "hanging". i read somewhere to disable my fs 9 error report and let dr. watson do it. i think it was this dump file, but i've since forgotten where to find it. i've searched through forums etc for answers as well as your manual. i tried to insert the FSPIC dll in the modules first, but that didn't work. the rest of the forum responses are over my head. i just like to fly airplanes as a hobby, not learn how to hyperthread my modum or whatever. on a clean install without fspic it closes fine. i also have active sky, active camera (with the patch), lago fsse, and a host of airplane add ons (capt sim 727, iron knuckles, eagle soft citation, flight 1 archer and cardinal) plus other third party aircraft from steward global, ifdg, and posky. thanks, brantley brantley