Adobe Flash causing lock ups?

MrBoring · 16 May 2011 at 02:03

Hi, I've had a string of probs with freezing / lock-ups on this new rig since I built it about 6 weeks ago. At first I thought it was RAM related but I discovered that they only happen when I'm browsing on-line and after a lot of trial & error I've pinned it down to a problem with Flash Player (I think).

At first I thought it might be FireFox 4 (which I use all the time) but it happens in exactly the same way in IE 8 as well.

Tonight I uninstalled Falsh Player (V.10.3) as an experiment and had no problems at all when browsing (other than not being able to see any Flash vids). I then downloaded and installed a fresh version from Adobe and as soon as the adds started on MSN home the PC froze. Sometimes it freezes and locks-up completely and at others it re-boots.

Does anyone know why this should be happening?

PS I'm using a fairly recent fresh install of Win 7 home 64 (Retail) which is fully updated + SP1. However, the same thing happend when I was running this PC previously using an ISO image of Win7 on 30 day trial.

Everything else works absolutely fine. It will play music all day and night / run back-ups, go to sleep + wake up etc. all ok.

I'm baffled (and annoyed)

Has this happened to anyone else?

Azuse05 · 16 May 2011 at 10:50

I've been having 5-10 second freezes with the past 2 build 10.2.(159 I believe it was called) and 10.3. Google maps has been a specific offender. If you read the release notes there's a string of video/rendering bugs with cause freezes, premature stops or poor performance in this release caused by a gpus, drivers, windows and browsers http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/901/cpsid_90194.html .

Good luck narrowing it down which, I assume, is the problem Adobe faced when coding this build

MrBoring · 16 May 2011 at 17:09

Ah. Thanks for the reply, I suppose it's some consolation knowingthat it's not just me

I've been playing around with uninstalling / installing fresh versions of things and I'm going to see if I can find a video driver that will work ok.

Mm GPU is an ATI Radeon HD5770 Flex and the driver is dated 26/1/11 and I'm sure it's the latest but I'm going insearch of something else tonight because this bug is really annoying.

Thanks agian for the reply

anything I don't mind · 16 May 2011 at 17:20

I have been experiencing freezing every day at work with firefox 4 and flash but when i restart the browser after ending the process it is ok again until the net day. I have the same set up at home so don't know what is wrong yet.

It is definitely flash, but not sure why.

MrBoring · 16 May 2011 at 18:16

Went to ATI and downloaded the latest Catalyst package which is dated 9/5/11 and the video driver in that is dated 19/4/11 so I've updated. So far so good tonight but I haven't really had a chance to test it. It's just a question of wait and see what happens I suppose???