PC no longer plays ball with youtube?

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Straight to the nub of the matter, my q6600 gigabyte pc running creaky old xp sp2 locks up if I put it anywhere near youtube or any web based video content like vimeo. Soon as the data pours over the lan, it is "Bam" instant lock, one beep and thats it game over.

It results in me flicking the power switch on the psu, turning it back on and booting it up. I get a nag screen telling me about a severe crash or a nice BSOD which sometimes results in the bios nagging me about failed overclocks? I havent even overclocked the system so im miffed about that one lol. The two sound cards also get swapped over on the mixer panel and that also results in all the audio sliders set back to defaults, getting a bit annoyed with this one... suspecting the emu card and its poo drivers.

Messed about removing firefox, then the flash player... no go. Everything else works fine but the moment I touch flash based video it all goes south :(

Specs off the top of my head are:

Q6600 at stock
Gigabyte GA-P43-ES3G
Hyper-x 4gb DDR2 8500C5
XFX 4850
Audigy 1
EMU0404
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W

Im loathed to re-install xp. Think its about time I moved on with the times and tried windows 7 properly and also ditch that audigy card. Last time I tried windows 7 the audigy and the emu didnt play well together so I gave up. any advice would be great, thanx :)
 
Hmm, have you tried resetting the BIOS to default settings? Have you tried Googling the BSOD error codes? Have you checked the event log/event viewer for anything which doesn't look right?

I'd seriously get rid of Windows XP, get Windows 7 and get a new sound card whilst you're at it as well lol :)
 
Having a similar problem with flash videos here too actually... it stopped playing all flash videos, would just cause chrome to freeze and become unrecoverable... then it started working again (?) and now it's decided it doesn't like videos again... really weird if you ask me!

And I'm on Win7 HP x64
 
Tingle said:
Hmm, have you tried resetting the BIOS to default settings? Have you tried Googling the BSOD error codes? Have you checked the event log/event viewer for anything which doesn't look right?

I'd seriously get rid of Windows XP, get Windows 7 and get a new sound card whilst you're at it as well lol :)
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I was forced to reset the bios when the first BSOD happend. The machine crashed big time which upset everything. Tried googling some error codes and that made me feel sick as it all points to the video card... but im getting no other errors? havent checked the event log as yet, kinda walked away from it last night as I got tired of it.

Im going to grab a new soundcard, something unrelated to creative labs so it will not clash with the emu0404. It was one of the main reasons why I did not stick with 7 as the two cards just clashed the hell out of each other and would destroy things until 7 would no longer boot.
 
EniGmA1981 said:
Having a similar problem with flash videos here too actually... it stopped playing all flash videos, would just cause chrome to freeze and become unrecoverable... then it started working again (?) and now it's decided it doesn't like videos again... really weird if you ask me!

And I'm on Win7 HP x64
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Strange stuff m8, looks like I will be forced to pull the machine out and have a nose around. It a weird fault as nothing else kicks off only flash based stuff.
 
Have you been gaming on the machine? Run a benchmark or anything that will stress the gpu to see if it crashes again without flash.
 
Tea_Bag said:
Have you been gaming on the machine? Run a benchmark or anything that will stress the gpu to see if it crashes again without flash.
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No I havent gamed on this machine for a long time. Even then it wasnt something that would stress the video card out. I had a major change with the psu as the original decided to burn out its toggle switch. So I bought the truepower modular as it was better quality and its been rock solid since.

I might chuck on a game later and see what happens.
 
Have you tried uninstalling flash, completely removing any trace of it on your machine, and then installing Flash again?
Also, have you tried running your graphics card on some older drivers? That may do the trick.
 
Has this been a running problem for a few years or just recent?

Could try a system restore if its recent.
 
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