keyboard and mouse lockup in FS2002

[malbeckwith]

I am running FS2002 and am experiencing lockup of the keyboard and mouse sometimes after starting a flight , it happens usually 15 to 20 minutes into the flight and I have to keep constantly saving the flight does anyone experience this ? it is not a memory issue as i have 800 meg ram and a 256 meg ati video card and the pc is a 1.7 gig
cpu and 70 gig of space on the hard drive any help would be appreciated

[heyer]

>I am running FS2002 and am experiencing lockup of the
>keyboard and mouse sometimes after starting a flight , it
>happens usually 15 to 20 minutes into the flight and I have to
>keep constantly saving the flight does anyone experience this
>?

First off I'd highly recommend you using the "autosave" utility by Pete Dowson.

Name: autosave.zip Size: 8,302 Date: 12-20-2004 Downloads: 1711
FS98/FS2000/FS2002/FS2004 AutoSave v1.50. A utility that will save flights ("STN" files) at regular intervals, so you can retry that crashed landing or quickly recover from other problems. By Pete Dowson.

Regarding your actual problem I'd recommend you asking in the Hardware Forum as well. Could be a power supply or heat related problem but I'm not sure.

Are you possibly using a radio keyboard and/or mouse? Sometimes these devices also make problems (especially if the batteries are low).

[baddadnv]

Hi Mally,

In addition to Michael's good advice ........

When you get the freeze-up, Press ALT+TAB - That should minimize FS2002 and put you back to the desktop, (if it is just a keyboard mouse lock-up). - If that doesn't work, you are getting a total system freeze. Turn Your sliders down.

let us know,

Randy Burton