On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:45:41 GMT, "Augustus"
brought the following to our attention:

wrote in message

I've ordered and installed a Zotac 9800 GT in order to run FSX, and
right after installing 178.24 drivers (which came with the product) FSX
started crashing with `Fatal Error´ message box (send / don't send
report). Have upgraded to 182.08 drivers and FSX is still crashing right
at the end of `Loading Scenery´ progression box ( at 100% loaded).

Is it the video card? Should I order another brand? return the Zotac?
There were no crashes with the original 128 MB ATI FireGL card.

Highly unlikely there's anything physically wrong with the video card. Very
likely that in the switch from the ATI card that there's remnants of the
Catalyst drivers causing the issues you are experiencing. One should use a
dedicated driver cleaner (like this one from the Guru3D
site..http://downloads.guru3d.com/Guru3D--...up)_d1655.html)
to completely remove the ATI drivers. Then reinstall with latest (182.08)
drivers. Posting specifics about your OS and system also helps.....

Thank you.. this is very helpful. It's a Precision 670 as follows:

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/D...cision_670.pdf

But it's been refurbished and fitted with new CPUs, HD's and RAM

2x Intel 3.2GHz Xeon, SL7ZE
2x Seagate 15k, 73GB U320 SCSI
4x PC3200-1GB ECC RAM

Plus I added many more features post-delivery. Now please don't
start with how old and obsolete the system is because it works great
for me, and it can run FSX well enough with a nVIDIA 9800GT 512MB
card.

-ed