PC crash with Youtube Full screen

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Fangman

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HI all,

I have had a very irritating crash problem for a few weeks now and I cannot figure it out.

First, setup:

Asrock Extreme 4 Motherboard (z68)
2500k @4.5ghz
MSI 560 ti (not the 448 edition) 2gig.
2x2 gig and 2x4gig RAM (geil, same model numbers just different sizes)

Games work fine with no issues, including the likes of witcher 2 and Battlefield 3.
When ever I watch a youtube video, if I go full screen occassionally (80% of the time) the screen will be covered in purple lines as if it was a graphics card failure. next time it happens i'll get a picture. Sound still plays but to get out of it I need to turn the PC off at the button and back on.

Any thoughts?
 
Fangman said:
HI all,

I have had a very irritating crash problem for a few weeks now and I cannot figure it out.

First, setup:

Asrock Extreme 4 Motherboard (z68)
2500k @4.5ghz
MSI 560 ti (not the 448 edition) 2gig.
2x2 gig and 2x4gig RAM (geil, same model numbers just different sizes)

Games work fine with no issues, including the likes of witcher 2 and Battlefield 3.
When ever I watch a youtube video, if I go full screen occassionally (80% of the time) the screen will be covered in purple lines as if it was a graphics card failure. next time it happens i'll get a picture. Sound still plays but to get out of it I need to turn the PC off at the button and back on.

Any thoughts?
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Are you using Chrome? Try another browser. The flash version that comes with Chrome had been very finicky lately.
 
I also think that Geil RAM suck. Please memtest them. Try bumping up some voltage to the RAM.

Let me know if it works.
 
i had this happen to me when i had a 5870 graphics card. it turned out that the card was defective. no matter what version of flash i used, and no matter what browser i used, the card just freaked out. even if i disabled hardware acceleration.

you can try underclocking your video card using msi afterburner or something, that was the only way i could play any flash videos on youtube and not have it freak out when i went fullscreen. but its annoying because just like for you, the card worked everywhere else, games, etc.

try underclocking and try going full screen see if that changes anything. (or force the card to stay in its lower-clocked state)

if that doesnt help then the problem must be somewhere else. and at least you have made sure it is not the video card.
 
I had a MSI gtx 560 ti twin frozor and had this problem. It would randomly happen when I watched you tube or even some personal vids on my pc. Generall when I resized the video is when the screen would go funky and pc lock up. I updated to the latest nvidia drivers and still didnt help. I did the altest windows updates and also reinstalled/ updated the flash player and the problem went away. Im thinking that it was a adobe flash issue. I ruled out ram and videocard since I was running a SLI setup at the time and it would happen with both cards reguardless of which one i was running/ testing. Turning off my CPU or GPU overclock did not help at all. Hope this helps a bit.. I just upgraded to a MSI 670 and havent had any video issues with this card so far...
 
I crash with youtube in google chrome like once ever month with a huge blue screen of death and the pc restarts its self.

Not all the time though its a rare thing and only when I have something else using the GPU.
 
I have that same MSI GPU, I stay with Firefox...all is good for me when youtubing and that! Maybe u should give FF a try. ;) They update it all the time too, even though I don't think they really "have" to. I love google and all but Chrome isn't there just yet for my tastes.
 
Step 1. Check your flash version and upgrade if needed: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Step 2. Try another browser (with current flash, note IE uses a different version than other browsers)

Step 3. Video card drivers

If those dont do it then try all the other crazy stuff people are mentioning.
 
Try the latest WHQL driver released yesterday. OP didn't say what driver version. Pretty sure this was a driver bug.
 
DualAmdMp said:
Could be video drivers problem or a bad power supply.
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Goddamn it. Will people on this forum quit crying "could be the PSU" every time someone has a problem with anything? Power supply problems DO NOT MANIFEST LIKE THAT AT ALL. EVER. END OF STORY. Failures to POST, cold boot problems, random shutdowns and reboots. Voltage alarms, more than 10% deviation on any rail. In the worst case scenarios things get fried and don't work at all. THESE are the manifestations of PSU problems.

It is most likely, one of the bugs known with Adobe Flash. It could be a video driver problem, or a browser issue. But it is not, and never will be a fucking PSU problem.

blood said:
Are you using Chrome? Try another browser. The flash version that comes with Chrome had been very finicky lately.
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Prav said:
Sounds like an Adobe flash problem. Try the following different fixes:
1. Turn off hardware acceleration in Flash Player
2. Uninstall your Adobe products then re-install as there have been some reports of conflicts and/or updates that do not apply properly between versions
3. Update video drivers
4. http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/video-playback-issues.html
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rpbbmw said:
I had a MSI gtx 560 ti twin frozor and had this problem. It would randomly happen when I watched you tube or even some personal vids on my pc. Generall when I resized the video is when the screen would go funky and pc lock up. I updated to the latest nvidia drivers and still didnt help. I did the altest windows updates and also reinstalled/ updated the flash player and the problem went away. Im thinking that it was a adobe flash issue. I ruled out ram and videocard since I was running a SLI setup at the time and it would happen with both cards reguardless of which one i was running/ testing. Turning off my CPU or GPU overclock did not help at all. Hope this helps a bit.. I just upgraded to a MSI 670 and havent had any video issues with this card so far...
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These are examples of GOOD ADVICE.

DualAmdMp said:
Could be video drivers problem or a bad power supply.
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DualAmdMp said:
I also think that Geil RAM suck. Please memtest them. Try bumping up some voltage to the RAM.

Let me know if it works.
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These are examples of BAD ADVICE.

I do recall an issue / bug that NVIDIA had with some Fermi cards and Adobe Flash, and soemthing about them buying back peoples' cards for testing to identify the issue, but I thought that only applied to the GTX 580. Not sure where I read that. But it could be a similar type of problem.
 
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Yeah, my machine actually reboots sometimes after Youtube/Flash hiccup. I'm pretty sure it's a combination of Flash, browser, and related plugins. Install a fresh browser, something you normally don't use (I recommend IE, Firefox, or Chrome), and use that as vanilla as you can for a few days and see if it still freezes.
 
I was having issues in the past with the YouTube html5 opt-in beta. I had to opt-out of it and it fixed my youtube issues.
 
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