Quote from Hangar45 Admin on December 18, 2017, 8:31 am

(Original thread started on 09-09-16 by Mark Speechley)

I'm sure and hope that this was only unique to me. For a few years I have had a situation where one pokey 56U was causing the computer to restart up to 5 times during startup. It would get close to the Win7 logo then reboot. It took me ages to narrow down that it was a pokey. I did pull out the USB cable on startup and windows would load normally. However you had to remember to plug it back in!

 

The fix and don't ask me why, was found in the BIOS. When I turned off hyper threading, it has rebooted perfectly every time since. If any of you are wondering about Hyper threading you need to know about it with FSX/P3d to do with Affinity Mask in the P3D .cfg file. Dependent on your core number for your processor you can choose an affinity mask value that can may make your flight simulator and add-ons run better e.g. reducing blurries. I've just thrown my situation out there to increase our knowledge base.

 

(Posted by Ron Rollo on 09-10-16)

Hey Mark, I do believe both Shane and I had similar issues with the PoKeys cards or at least one PoKeys card causing issues or not being recognized. It was about two or three years ago and I believe I had to unplug my USB cable to one of them in order to get the computer to recognize it. Shane might be able to better explain what he did to correct the issues he was having but I am pretty sure the answer was in the BIOS.

 

(Posted by Mark Speechley on 10-03-16)

You boys given any thought to the potential bios fix? In the meantime, I've learned to unplug the USB to the PoKeys on starting windows, then hopefully remember to plug it back in again. I've unfortunately forgotten to plug it back in at times and loaded up P3D only to find the Auto Pilot does not want to play nicely!

 

(Posted by Ron Rollo on 10-09-16)

Hey Mark, I am back from a little vacation. I will tell you more about that in another thread. I don't know what I did to resolve the problem but I do not think I had to go into the BIOS. It was a matter of finding the right USB plug in the back of the computer to plug in the Pokeys card. Kinda like a plate spinning balancing act. Once you find the perfect balance, LEAVE IT ALONE! From time to time one of the Pokeys will still act up or my USB audio card will act up. There may be a sure fix in the BIOS but it is beyond my pay grade. Shane, you got any thoughts on this subject?