P/C Crash

[slid_away]

Hi All
I bought a new PC in September and it has crashed twice on me. Once within a week of having it and again today.
The weird thing is that both times it crashed I was watching a video on the Sun newspaper site.
It has never crashed before and is fine with other video sites.
Could the Sun video's be causing it to crash?
Thanks in advance

[hc4361]

Yes, easily. Your firewall might not like it.

[slid_away]

Thanks HC4361.
Would it make it totally unresponsive? I could not do anything with it and had to switch it off via the main button.

[ChuckFickens]

can you be a little more specific than crash? locked up totally? blue screen of death? just resets? browser closes?

[slid_away]

It was looping the video sound but the screen was a black/blue colour. I pressed esc and various other buttons but it did nothing. It was totally locked

[Jumbuck]

tried the task manager?

[slid_away]

I tried Task manager but it would not respond to anything. Nothing worked at all, just dark screen and looping audio.

[ChuckFickens]

If you were watching it full screen sounds like the flash player crashed.

did you try pressing ctrl+alt+delete and using the task manager to close the program?

the sun site appears to use a fairly standard flash player so first thing is make sure you have the latest player installed

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/