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February 28, 2011
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My new PC keeps crashing when watching video online with Adobe Flash player

  • February 28, 2011
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My mew PC keeps crashing when watching video online with Adobe Flash player

I can watch a video for about 2 min or even 20min and then the PC randomly crashes

Anyone have this wierd problem ??

I have this in my current system

WinXP 32bit SP3

Asus M2N68-AM Plus motherboard

AMD X2 7850 Black Edition Dual Core CPU

2GB DDR2

WD Caviar SE16 500GB SATA drive

Onboard VGA **only** - no other video cards installed

I keep having consistent problems using this new motherboard with a Dual Core CPU

My new motherboard keeps crashing randomly while watching video online.

I get this weird mosaic pattern on the screen whenever it crashes and then I have to press Reset to Reboot

And it **only** crashes after streaming a video on any of the websites, YouTube, CBS.com, NBC.com, Hulu.com etc, etc

My  last PC never crashed while watching a video online - it was just slow  since Adobe player is a hog -- and it was still a 1.8GHZ CPU !!

My last PC is still using version 10.1 for the Adobe Flash player -- and it ***never*** crashes

The  most I ever see happen on that one is that the player might occasionly  crash in the video window and the error message says to reload the Flash  player.


Then I tried this remedy of disabling the Hardware Acceleration in the Adobe Settings  -- but no luck still.


I even downgraded to 10.1, then 10.0 and it still keeps getting these random crashes while watching video

I'm wondering if WinXP 32bit is really compatible with Adobe Flash when using a Dual Core CPU


Before I plunk down $100 for Win7, I'm thinking about trying Ubuntu and see what luck I have.

thanks,

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    pwillener
    pwillener
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    March 1, 2011

    No need to post the same question twice, especially when not giving any additional information.


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    Anonymous
    March 1, 2011

    The PC crashes results in a weird mosaic pattern on the screen  and completely locks up the PC - always need to press Reset to reboot

    There's **never** an error message displayed.

    This happens using either Internet Exlporer 8 or Firefox 3.6

    And the onboard video chipset has the current drivers.

    I just installed Ubuntu Linux, it works fine without any problem - it ***never*** crashes when playing videos.

    I'm using a multi-boot system so I can switch back n forth between WinXP and Ubuntu

    I didn't have to worry about anything during the Ubuntu install, all updates were downloaded automatically -- worked first time like a charm***

    The Adobe version that's installed in Ubuntu is 10.2.r152

    So far, I tired 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 on WinXP without any success, it still keeps crashing the PC randonly while playing videos.

    On my old PC, with a AMD Athlon 1.8Ghz CPU, and Adobe version 10.1, it never crashes

    It runs slow but it  _n_e_v_e_r_  crashes the PC

    So now the question remains, is there something wrong with the WinXP install or is Adobe 10.2 incompatible wit WinXP ??

    This WinXP is from an original licensed Microsoft CD, not some pirated copy, and I have SP3 file saved on my PC which I install also.

    So the only thing that changed is buying this new motherboard - which works fine with Ubuntu Linux - wothout worrying about any driver issues.

    So the suspicion still lies with windows version of Adobe running on WinXP 32bit with a Dual Core CPU.

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