Youtube videos cause entire system crash

My apologies for not updating my situation earlier.

The problem became intermittent for no reason after the first few days of having this problem and then disappeared with a graphics card update a few weeks afterwards.

It appears to have been an incompatability between Flash and ATI Radeon, until some sort of fix was made by the latter.

Many thanks for all the advice given.

Hi,

I had the same problems with my Acer Aspire for almost a year now. With FlashPlayer 10. installed the screen became black the sound hang up and nothing worked anymore so I had to take out the battery to start again. With version 9 it worked without systems crashes but still I could not watch everything and the most games on facebook for example did'nt work.

My acer runs with windows 7 64 bit and has a ATI mobile Radeon HD 5470 grafic card. I always suspected that there is a Problem between the Flash Player and my graphic card. Now ATI released a new driver since March 2011, and Flash 10. is working now. Only the driver breaks sometimes but I have still more possibilities than before.

I am experiencing the same problems as all of you, but I have a few more data points to add:  First, My computer's performance in games has also recently dropped like a rock.  In Battlefield: Bad Company 2 I used to get around 45 frames per second in 'medium' graphics settings, and it's now around 8 fps.  Low graphics settings gets me a higher, but still unplayably low, framerate.  I opened the old pre-release Crysis demo and got atrocious performance in that as well.

Now, as far as youtube videos, my problems are similar to the ones you all are having.  I open a video, and either I promptly get the blue screen of death or (more frequently) my computer freezes up, I can't move the pointer, and I have to manually restart it.

Though, interestingly, just like the op, I have had no problems with other graphics-intensive activities like streaming Netflix or watching BluRays.

So the common denominator is no longer flash.  It's just the most commonly used program that experiences the problem.

What I have seen in [EDIT: almost] every single post is a newest or second-newest-generation ATI graphics card, often of the gaming variety (ATI 4000 or 5000 series).  I have that as well.  That's fairly uncommon.  Flash, on the other hand, is used by everyone anyway.  My computer setup is:

HP Envy 17-1011NR notebook

Intel Core i7-720QM 1.6 GHz quad core processor

8GB DDR3

two 7200 rpm 320 GB HDDs, not sure of the brand

ATI 5850 Graphics Card

I have tried youtube videos in IE, FireFox and Chrome.

The final interesting thing that's happening is that this problem goes away and comes back periodically for me.  Sometimes games and youtube videos work for me, and sometimes they don't.  I'm fairly sure the problems are occuring together, though I can't say for certain since it hasn't been happening long enough.

Any help is appreciated

My PC is freezing when i watch videos on internet.. like youtube. And this started happening long time ago when i updated adobe flash player from 9 to 10.

freexing of my pc happens on IE, Firefox and Chrome.

System specs:

Quadcore Q6600 3Ghz CPU

ATI 4800 series GPU

2Gb RAM

320Gb HDD

560W PSU

CPU and GPU are overclocked but are very stable and my computer hasnt freezed in 2 years a single time untill the flash player update from 9 to 10

it took me few months to come on a conclusion that Adobe flash player is causing it.

I have this same exact problem.  10-15 seconds in screen will go black, sound will remain fine for 10 more seconds then the sound goes crazy

Asus UL30VT Laptop

Windows 7 64bit

NVidia G210M

Intel CULV 1.3ghz processor

Crashes in Firefox and Chrome.  All drivers updated.  I can't stand this anymore someone please help!!

Where can I download Flash 9.xx?

Same problem here.

Intel Duo-Core 2GHz

2GB DDR2 Ram

520GB SATA Operating Drive (storage drives irrelevant)

NVidia GeForce 9400gt (hardware acceleration active)

Creative X-Fi 2.1

I can only watch about 30 to 60 seconds of any flash video when my computer crashes, usually with a God-awful noise. It does not reboot, I have to manually hit the reset button.

This happens in Chrome, IE 8, Opera 10.6, Firefox or any other.

If I download the video as an mp4 it plays fine. All movies and all music plays fine. The only time it crashes is when flash is involved.

I uninstalled flash and then installed an old version 9 and the problems disappeared (except in Chrome where it is built in and always uses v10).

This is definitely a flashplayer issue as that is the only common denominator for the crashes.

If you get an answer anywhere or come up with it yourself please post it here, I would be grateful.

Cheers,

Simon

Hello

I  have exactly the same problem . green screen  on the youtube videos   crashes firefox and internet explorer.

I uninstall the catalyst  drivers for my video card ATI Radeon HD4670.

No problems after the uninstall .

I use Windows 7 64 bit driver up to date

Hi, Thank you for the info on your computer. May I ask what brand it is?

I'm not familiar with the workings of Avant, although I have heard of it. I don't think Adobe Flash Player supports the Avant browser. I have never seen it listed. Following is a link to the system requirements:

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/systemreqs/index.html

This site also has information about various drivers.

Today is Patch Tuesday for Windows also.

I'm not sure exactly what the problem is that would cause a BSOD. Flash Player works thru the browser (those that are supported by Adobe) so that is a factor. It may also have something to do with the drivers. I don't think the drivers would be unique to the browser of IE or FF. I can't comment on Avant regarding anything other than Flash Player however.

Thanks,

eidnolb