Just moved Flight Sim to Vista 64 and now there are no BSoDs. B4 you start thinking that you simply must switch to Vista for any of the games I'm having problems with, remember that nVidia is prioritizing 9800 GX2driver development for DX10 and Vista (hence quad SLI in Vista and not XP). I didn't have any problems with either OS with the older nVidia 7800GTs installed.

By the way, to create that wide-screen, multi-display view for Flight Sim.

1. Start flying.
2. Right-click and de-select Hide Menu.
3. Select Virtual Cockpit from the Views\New View\Cockpit menu.
4. Drag the new window to the right or left monitor and resize it (you may have to select Undock View from the Views menu).
5. Use the keypad to adjust the secondary view to the right or left, up or down.
6. Repeat the process for the third monitor.

Electronic Arts makes quality games, however, their annoying habit of forcing you to have the DVD in the drive to play stinks. If you leave it there, it wastes time during the BIOS boot as well as the Windows boot. If you don't, then you must track it down and insert it every time you want to play the game. Then there are the advertisements by Intel and nVidia within the actual game intro. Sheesh.

Also moved Crysis over to Vista to take advantage of the quad SLI (only dual in XP) and am currently moving partitions around to make more space for Vista 64. I flirted with removing XP all together, but then I thought that it would be a pain for whoever wins to reinstall it if they prefer it and the driver thing should be resolved fairly soon. I still use XP, by the way...

Hopefully, the Corsair Ballistix will be here today which will mean WorldBench time.

By the way. Because the eSATA on the D5400XS wouldn't work with the Adpatec 3405 on board, I got it in my head to use the Iomega UltraMax Pro only via USB. It finally occurred to me to put it back on the eSATA bus with the EVGA 790i Ultra SLI and now no USB boot problem. If you can't lick 'em, switch the bus.

L8r.

Jon