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FSXA Fatal error on startup!!!

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Hey guys, I really need your help.
I have the FSX gold edition installed on my pc for almost a year. Around December of 2010, my computer crashed, so i had to completely reinstall FSXA. Now, as of about a few weeks ago, i noticed that i couldn't go within about 30-40 miles of Seattle in FSX free flight; FSXA would just shut down once i entered that area.
Yesterday, to fix this, I ran the FSX installer and selected repair. The installer didn't seem to show any problem. When it finished, it told me to start up FSX, which I did. About two minutes after FSX finished 'finalizing databases' i got a fatal error, shutting down fsx. Each time i try to start it, i get this message.

I did however, before doing the repair, backup all the FSX files that are under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X. I don't know if those files are of any help to solving this problem, but I'm hoping one of you might.

Do any of you guys know what to do about this? Or know a forum that would help me most with this?
Also, does anyone know how many times the Microsoft product key works? Like i said, i've already used it twice...
 
you can uninstall and install on the same system as often as you like...you can install on a replacement drive on the same system....the only thing that might affect this is installing on a completely new system..

ive never had a problem with this...

the acc disk adds pack one and pack two...at least in my case it does...

so with fsx being a seperate pack, i wouldnt use the fsx repair, with fsx already patched with the acc disk....but although slightly tedius, i would uninstall acc, then fsx, then clean out the files left behind....then do a reinstall, fsx, run it...shut down, install acc, run and test....

when cleaning out files, delete the files for fsx in app data....etc before the reinstall.......always poss the disk has become corrupted....ihave fsx acc installed on two drives on the same system...one w7 32...two w7 64...
ive exhausted my guesses...hope you get it flying.....jim
 
You probably find that some scenery files, may have become currupt from your crash, as Jetwelder suggests, completely uninstall FSXA and FSX, run the error checking function (under properties of your drive), check to see that all traces of FSX are gone after uninstalling including in your registry, becareful though and use a registry tool if you need to. also DEFRAG your drive before you reinstall FSX and FSXA, you should after this be able to return to a better performing sim.

Regards
 
And if you have the backup of Fsx I'll try to copy/paste the backup files on the root of the faulty Fsx, the files, Dll, exe,cfg., etc, not the yellow folders, who know.
 
I Fixed it!!!
by just doing the repair function of the Acceleration disk, it suddenly started working again.
However, i still hav the problem of not being able to go near seattle, which was the whole reason that i tried to do this repair. Any ideas?
 
FSX345,

You've probably got damaged files or missing files for this region, best solution would be to remove FSX and Acceleration and start again. Sometimes re-installing a fresh copy is a better option than trying to patch up problematic programs. Yet I'd also look at downloading a PC maintenance program and see if there's any particular reason as to why the crash took place in the first place.

Regards
 
I did consider uninstalling fsx and accel but since i've already used the product key twice, so im really afraid that it will not work again.
I guess that i could just leave it alone; every thing else works fine... But i wouldn't be able to do any missions around seattle or fly there, which would be a shame considering i wouldn't be able to fly around the land that i know best... :(
 
I've reinstalled FSX a few times, if your key ends up being not recognized you can call ms for a new key. Which I've done a few times.
 
when you install fsx it wants the key in the back of the disk case, same for acc......activate by internet....if it fails... you will get a number to phone..
thise will be a automated robot voice....on screen you will see a number to type into your phone keypad....after which a number to type in will be read back in repeatable chunks...which you will have to key in....tedious but i have only had to this on a completely new rig.....

i have installed fsx and acc on the same rig many times,and it has always activated over internet immediately...including on completely new drives but on the same system....

if you have had it it installed and running on a system.....then the activation
at microsoft knows this...and will activate on the same system......

jim
 
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