IE9 Crashing

Stabhappy said:
You need to ascertain whether this is the cause of an unstable overclock or a software problem.

My money is on software but better safe than sorry.. stress using whatever takes your fancy - Prime95 on 8 threads would be ideal.

As IE9 crashes on boot every time, over two seperate installs of a different OS, it would seem likely to me that there's a problem with the config on the machine. Have you changed registry settings to put programs on a different partition/drive by any chance? If so, have you copied all the default programs and files to the new location?

Let me know how this gets on, keen to hear the outcome.
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I Havnt done any overclock, I only have a c drive with everthing installed in default directories on the c drive. i have not carried out any registry tweaks. I do not have any viruses on the system, AVG installed before anything else.

I have installed SP1 for windows 7 (64 bit) and any other updates, Just seems strange that apps are crashing the first time i go in them such as sage accounts or IE9 or BF3 but then generally work afterwards. I tried installing Sage Act but it requires sql express and I am finding the the Sql Express install is failing when it trys to start the Sql browser service. Cant understand why windows 7 and Chrome seems so stable but apps are crashing out.

Can you suggest a good hardware diagnostics that tests the motherboard and memory as I am beginning to suspect them.
 
3dcandy said:
It's not IE as such, but usually the activex and other entry points that are the problem. However, as IE is such a flaky product up to IE9, I would not recommend it to anyone, and you have been lucky or have a virus/malware you don't know about during your long time with what is regarded as a sub standard browser. You will no doubt be pleased to know that Safari on Windows is now the easiest to hack though...
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not had a virus since the win 95 days
and never had any malware when i have checked
seems i must be very very very lucky, yeah right i dont think so
 
Think what you like...win xp with IE6 was notorious when released, you only had to go onto the internet to be infected, so yes I regard you as lucky...
You still managed a virus in win95 when it was much harder!!?!?
Nice to see that your attitude is like it is, what if you have a rootkit and don't know about it. For the vast majority of people, IE is the software that is used to gain a foothold and attack a system, and you're a fool if you don't believe that. Most large level and successful attacks have proven to have originated through IE in some shape or form....
 
3dcandy said:
yes memtest!
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Thanks 3dcandy, I downloaded memtest and burnt the iso image to cd and left it running last night....... passed.

Also Heaven Benchmark DX11 tester passes all tests.

There has to be something wrong. Is there some issue with windows 7 Ulimate (sp1) running on the hardware listed above that I dont know about.
 
paulmac said:
Thanks 3dcandy, I downloaded memtest and burnt the iso image to cd and left it running last night....... passed.

Also Heaven Benchmark DX11 tester passes all tests.

There has to be something wrong. Is there some issue with windows 7 Ulimate (sp1) running on the hardware listed above that I dont know about.
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Don't think so...reseat cpu and heatsink, check power supply (test with another if possible) you will have to work through everything to see what is faulty...
 
Surely if it was cpu or psu I would see more issues using windows 7 not just in IE and a handful of other apps.

Tried running IE with all add ons disabled still fails, IE9 hardware rendering disabled - still fails. Chrome still working perfectly.
 
3dcandy said:
Think what you like...win xp with IE6 was notorious when released, you only had to go onto the internet to be infected, so yes I regard you as lucky...
You still managed a virus in win95 when it was much harder!!?!?
Nice to see that your attitude is like it is, what if you have a rootkit and don't know about it. For the vast majority of people, IE is the software that is used to gain a foothold and attack a system, and you're a fool if you don't believe that. Most large level and successful attacks have proven to have originated through IE in some shape or form....
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I must've been lucky as well...
 
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