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StevieB125
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January 27, 2011
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Flash Video causes PC to randomly freeze

  • January 27, 2011
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Hi there,

I really hope someone can help me with this problem.

I have recently built a new PC and found that watching flash video on websites can cause the PC to totally freeze, which requires a hard re-boot.

This does not happen immeadiatley I am watching a flash video, however if a web page has a number of multiple flash video streams, the PC will tend to freeze within 30 minutes.

This has occured on a number of websites in Firefox, IE and Safari.

 

Here's what I've tried so far:

-Used different browsers (IE8, Safari, Firefox)

-Disabled hardware acceleration

-Changed IDE cables to windows hard drive

-If download a stream, changed the target drive

-Increased virtual memory to: 2,046MB (Initial) 4,092MB (Max)

-Run regcure to chack for registry issues

-The  system is stable at all other times, including playing high end video games that are stressing the CPU and Graphics Card.

System spec:

Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H Motherboard, AMD Phenom II X6 1055T CPU, 8GB DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 1280MB Graphics Card, MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3, Hanns.G HG281 22" Monitor at 1920x1200 via HDMI

I would really appreciate of anyone has got any ideas on this one.

Best regards,

Steve
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    Anonymous
    January 27, 2011

    Hi, Flash Player is a browser plugin and works thru the browser so there could be another addon that is conflicting. I've never had more than one streaming video on the same site at the same time. Maybe that is the problem.

    Are you having any problem on youtube?

    Any Anti-Virus addons in the browsers are the worst offenders with the browser and the ActiveX Control for Flash Player.

    You may want to check on those.

    Thanks,

    eidnolb

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    StevieB125Author
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    January 29, 2011

    Hi eidnolb  I'm going to try to the following based on your post:  1. Remove all plugins that are associated with Firefox.  2. I have not really tested the problem with YouTube, but will now.  3. I will try viewing without anti-virus running.  Since my original post, the PC has totally locked-up viewing only one Flash stream and I have had the same problem in Safari and Explorer that do not have any plugins.  I will post back with my findings, but any help from the forum will be appreciated.  Steve

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    Anonymous
    January 29, 2011

    Hi, thanks for the update.

    What Anti-Virus/Spyware programs do you use?

    Let me know as soon as you can.

    Thanks,

    eidnolb

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