pc crashes during broadband speed test

footman · 14 Sep 2009 at 21:02

Spent all morning speaking to Sky after the telephone engineer sorted out my dodgy internal wiring.
All speeds pings etc are now as I want them but a strange thing has started happening.
Whatever speed test site I use, during the upload phase the pc randomly freezes and I have to reboot.

J.B · 14 Sep 2009 at 21:13

Its probably a problem with your flash plug in, thats what most speed tests use.

Are things like iPlayer and 4oD working? Tried a different browser?

footman · 14 Sep 2009 at 23:29

J.B said:
Its probably a problem with your flash plug in, thats what most speed tests use.

Are things like iPlayer and 4oD working? Tried a different browser?

Iplayer works OK and Ive done the test in Chrome without a crash. I did a Flash update yesterday so maybe thats at fault.
I'll try another update, cheers for the idea.

bledd · 15 Sep 2009 at 09:49

try this first one..

http://bleddyn.co.uk/net/

if any others fail, check ram.. gfx drivers, flash, browser updates

footman · 15 Sep 2009 at 10:32

I've reinstalled Flash and the problem seems to have gone away. Thanks for all help.
Bledd, your pages are good info,cheers.

bledd · 15 Sep 2009 at 11:17

just a selection of tests suggested on here