Other Computer hanging problem

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  1. Kinglemur

    Kinglemur What's a Dremel?

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    Hi all, I'm experiencing a very annoying problem with my PC lately, if anyone could help I'd be very appreciative.

    The PC boots just fine and all programs are very responsive. However, when I try using Firefox or Chrome to surf the web (I don't use IE), certain websites cause my system to crash. It happens on a website that tries to play a video, there's nothing I can do at this point but restart.

    After a restart there doesn't appear to be any problems, I can surf freely at this point, it happens just the once. I've got up to date graphics card drivers and motherboard drivers, no viruses were found.

    I don't really know how to investigate the problem so if anyone could point me in the right direction that'd be brilliant :)
     
  2. KidMod-Southpaw

    KidMod-Southpaw Super Spamming Saiyan

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    Try reinstalling flash player.
     
  3. buchanan0204

    buchanan0204 What's a Dremel?

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    Sometimes a reinstall of Windows works wonders :) With all the hours you will probably spend racking your brain trying to solve the issue. A reinstall could have been done 5 times over.

    Also try running seatools to check hard drive for errors.
     
  4. Kinglemur

    Kinglemur What's a Dremel?

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    I've tried reinstalling Flash player, no improvement, certain websites are still causing crashes. Are there any steps I can go through to diagnose the problem?
     
  5. kol

    kol What's a Dremel?

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    you could try turning off hardware acceleration in firefox/chrome?
     
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  6. Kinglemur

    Kinglemur What's a Dremel?

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    Turning off hardware acceleration didn't help... a Youtube video on a news site just froze everything up again :grr:
     
  7. towelie

    towelie How do I Internet!!

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    Please list your PC spec and OS and also updated all your drivers GPU etc Also update flash/java and both web browsers to lastest versions.

    Also check event viewer for error around that time to indicate a problem, would also be worth running windows updates.
     

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