Hi Regan2000,

Yes, after months of issues the problems I was having finally got resolved, though it required installing an older flash player in order to facilitate turning off hardware acceleration. (NVIDIA and the Flash Player did not like each other).

The best thing you can do is start a new thread with the issues you are having.  Adobe Staff want to create only one thread per issue and you are more likely to get an answer to help you if you post a separate thread regarding your problems.

Once you've done that, if you don't get an answer after a few days, I would message the staff member who helped me in this thread to let them know you posted a Flash Player issue that you would like help resolving.

Good luck.

Regan

I have a very similar setup

Same processor and Motherboard.

The symptoms you describe are identical to what I am experiencing continued freezing requiring a hard re boot

when running movies in YouTube. Sometimes in seconds and other times several minutes

I have disabled hardware acceleration but it does not make any difference

What version of the motherboard bios are you running.

I am running the original supplied with the board 0605

Hello Regan

I am also in the UK.

My initial set up was a Gigabyte 560Ti graphics card running a 30inch monitor and

2 x 24 inch monitors thru a Matrox Triple Head to Go adaptor.

This enables me to run 3 monitors from one graphics card.

I have used this set up for many years on a couple of PC and never had a problem.

Like you I do not use my setup for gaming.

I am retired and trade the stock markets worldwide.

Today I disconnected my Matrox adaptor and just run the single 30inch monitor with several You tube movies running.

It ran without a problem for over 2 hrs ( this is a first ).

I have now connected one of the 24inch monitors to the other DVI port on the graphics card and this has been running

You tube videos for over 1 hour with no problem?????????

I will leaving it running for another few hours.

I am away on vacation from this evening until the 18^th April. So will not be able to add any more feedback.

I hope by the time I return you have had success in resolving this dilemma.

Hello,

I am having the same issue. Since I installed my 7970 my entire system freezes randomly with flash video loaded in the web browser. Turning off acceleration didn't seem to help either. I thought it was Chrome, but I think I've narrowed it down to Flash. Using 12.3 drivers.

Hi Chris!

The entire machine freezes.

I uninstalled Flash totally from the machine, and since then I've had no system freezes. I am going to continue running with it uninstalled for a little while longer to see if that really cleared the problem up. It sure is difficult surfing without Flash though. Even file attachments and other forums and applications use Flash! Didn't even realise that. Testing YouTube's HTML5 controls as a result of all this.

I suppose if this issue isn't widespread it must be something about my specific system :-\

Update on my situation.

With Flash Uninstalled and not using Flash at all, the system is stable.

When using Chrome with Flash, the system would freeze up randomly and require a hard reboot.

I uninstalled the ATI drivers, all of them using the Control Panel. I rebooted and remained with whatever default drivers Windows 7 chose.

Since then, even when watching youtube, leaving youtube running in the background while playing games etc. the system seems to be stable.

I'll continue to use the system and then advise on further developments.

I'll add my $0.02 here - have been having this problem for some time, and have not been able to find a solution. At first I assumed it was a problem with player - but I've updated several times since this started happening. Then, I thought, maybe my NVidia driver - nope. Updated that too, and I'm using the latest and greatest.

With Flash player not installed, my system has no problems (except I can't see Flash video). After installing, Flash videos longer than 4-5 minutes crash the system - always with a loss of video, and audio, sometimes with a loud buzzing in the speakers. In all cases, the system is still running, but I have lost all video and control and have to hard reboot.

Windows 7 x64, SP1, Asus CG8350, i7-2600 @ 3.4GHz, 8Gb RAM, NVidia 9600 GT running 296.10. All drivers and system software up to date.

Hope we see something soon!

mh++

No hardware changes here - my hardware has been consistent for almost a year now, and I didn't start having these problems until a few months ago, maybe February/March timeframe.

mh++

Chris, I'll give this one a try and report back on any positive or negative experience.

Thanks!

mh++

As a further bit of information, the ActiveX version in IE9 seems OK - I have not seen any freezes there (I can't recall seeing them before on 11.2 either). So it's looking like a plug-in/Firefox combo. I'm going to try Chrome as well, since I think it uses the same plugin as Firefox.

Any other troubleshooting suggestions?

mh++

Chris, I tried deleting the profile entirely. Seemed to work at first; I was watching a video for over 9 minutes, then I launched another program and POW. Goodbye screen. Audio continued intermittently for several seconds then I lost that, too.

It really seems like a memory corruption issue when streaming video for long periods (can be cumulative, several short videos seems to do it also).

Tomorrow I'll try it in Chrome and see if I see the same problem.

mh++

I had the same issues and its not a Flash problem. The solution was updated drivers.  But Windows does not track, and will not find, updated drivers ever. I can't underswtand why Microsoft wants us to think they do.  In any case, I used DriverMax and it recommended 7 updated drivers, while Windows said none were needed.  After installing them, Flash works perfectly.  Try that and let us know what you find.