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17 years 3 months

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my son is trying to install fsx on his pc .he has tried the cd drive ..doesnt pick up disk ..check drive in my computer .nothing shown
tried in dvd drive .and my computer recognises fsx disk1 ..but does not auto run
dvd drive is samsung sd-616f
running win xp sp2 loads fine on my pc
cd drive works as we used it to install new graphics card drivers
dvd works as he watches dvd on it
please help ..doing my head in
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T-ROGG

I have had issues where my CD drive has vanished from "My Computer", a simple restart sorts that out, failing that, put it back in the other drive and then go to My Computer, double click the drive, then when the window comes up double click on the exe file which should be labelled something like "FSX", this will also be a small icon file, then install from there

Dean

:edited: mate sorry, I meant to say a "simple restart" not "re-install"

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17 years 3 months

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thanks

Deano
tried all that
my computer just sits for a while with the egg timer .. then says not responding
did some reasearch on the dvd rom itself and looks like this is a firmware issue
think its time to change the dvd rom for 1 i know works
thanks for the reply

good forum
my boy loves it
gets some good advise and stuff

keep it up :diablo:

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16 years 11 months

Posts: 113

Red Baron

Hi
While I was still using Windows 98, I purchased a flight sim called Red Baron, it was a brilliant sim but when I moved up to Windows XP it refused to work.I believe it to be American but remastered in UK by "Sold Out". Is there anything that can be done?

Ken