falcon409
SOH-CM-2025
First of all...let me express my deepest gratitude to the SOH Community for the very humbling show of generosity. Last week I thought I was done with Flight Sim. I knew that at some point my system would self destruct and when it did I would no longer be able to fix it and that would be the end of a very enjoyable hobby.When I posted my remarks about the death of my computer and the fact that I would not be back it was meant as no more than a simple goodbye. I had to correspond via my cell phone and that was a pain. . .more than I ever imagined, lol. Consequently, my messages were brief and not as elaborate as they might have been had I had another computer to access.
What grew out of that simple statement was a groundswell of support that I honestly did not expect. Colin contacted me right away and offered financial assistance and I thanked him but felt very awkward accepting any financial help. He persevered and I accepted at his request. Thank you Colin. On the heels of that offer came others with similar offers and thanks to Roger who made the request to Ickie and certainly Ickie who set up the donations page and tracked the contributions. . .I thank them one and all. The list of contributors was long and distinguished and to each and every one of you. . .from the bottom of my heart I say "Thank You and I pray that God blesses you a hundred times over for what you all did". . .I could never have expected such an amazing gift. Finally I want to thank the SOH Community as a whole. . .I know there were those who were unable to contribute but your friendship and well wishes were also accepted in the spirit they were given. You are all great folks and I am proud to be counted as one of you. Thank you so much!!!
As for the progress. . .lol. . .it has been slow, lol. The system I have was put together over the weekend and several trips to Fry's Electronics. A new Case, motherboard, CPU, Memory, Graphics Card and Power Supply to start. After trying repeatedly to get the original Win7 OS to initialize by running the Repair Option over and over and over and over again (the new Mobo obviously made changes to the system info which meant Win7 would not come up), I finally had to buy a new HDD, install Win7 on that (I just finished that before I logged into SOH) and I will be slowly moving everything from the old drive to the new drive. Hopefully some of it will function without reinstalling but I expect a large part will not. It will probably be some time before I'm able to actually do any flightsimming. . .but, considering where I was this time last week. . .I'm much better off, lol.
What grew out of that simple statement was a groundswell of support that I honestly did not expect. Colin contacted me right away and offered financial assistance and I thanked him but felt very awkward accepting any financial help. He persevered and I accepted at his request. Thank you Colin. On the heels of that offer came others with similar offers and thanks to Roger who made the request to Ickie and certainly Ickie who set up the donations page and tracked the contributions. . .I thank them one and all. The list of contributors was long and distinguished and to each and every one of you. . .from the bottom of my heart I say "Thank You and I pray that God blesses you a hundred times over for what you all did". . .I could never have expected such an amazing gift. Finally I want to thank the SOH Community as a whole. . .I know there were those who were unable to contribute but your friendship and well wishes were also accepted in the spirit they were given. You are all great folks and I am proud to be counted as one of you. Thank you so much!!!
As for the progress. . .lol. . .it has been slow, lol. The system I have was put together over the weekend and several trips to Fry's Electronics. A new Case, motherboard, CPU, Memory, Graphics Card and Power Supply to start. After trying repeatedly to get the original Win7 OS to initialize by running the Repair Option over and over and over and over again (the new Mobo obviously made changes to the system info which meant Win7 would not come up), I finally had to buy a new HDD, install Win7 on that (I just finished that before I logged into SOH) and I will be slowly moving everything from the old drive to the new drive. Hopefully some of it will function without reinstalling but I expect a large part will not. It will probably be some time before I'm able to actually do any flightsimming. . .but, considering where I was this time last week. . .I'm much better off, lol.
