Youtube videos cause entire system crash

Report · Oct 12, 2010

System Basics:

AMD Phenom x6 3.2GHz

4GB DDR3 Ram

120GB SDD Operating Drive (storage drives irrelevant)

ATI Radeon HD 5700 1GB (hardware acceleration not active)

Creative X-Fi 7.1

(all drivers up to date)

OS:

Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit)

(all windows updates up to date)

Browsers:

Avant Browser (Using Flash 10.1.85.3) (32 bit browser)

Google Chrome (downloaded today with latest Flash Player incorporated) (32 bit browser)

Issue:

I've been using Avant with the latest Flash player with no problems since install. However, today it has started to completely crash my entire system when I start playing a youtube video. BSOD and then system reboot.

Thinking it may be an issue with Avant (which is not the most popular and, therefore, not the most supported browser) I decided to download Google Chrome and see how things worked.

As soon as I played a youtube video in Chrome, BSOD and a system reboot.

My system is extremely stable otherwise and has had no other crashes since it was built in July.

I've noticed another person having the same issue with a Radeon graphics card, but most of the advice is concerning IE or Firefox, neither of which I'm using.

The strange thing is that this issue only started today, but my Flash Player and Graphic Drivers were both updated a week ago. I've been playing youtube videos without issue since then until this morning.

Report · Apr 25, 2011

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.