My mom's laptop crashes with a BSOD when visiting youtube.com. It is running Windows XP, and crashes under IE 7 and Google Chrome.
souvik1997 wrote:
My mom's laptop crashes with a BSOD when visiting youtube.com. It is running Windows XP, and crashes under IE 7 and Google Chrome.
That's not good. Does it do the same thing under other browsers? Have you done a virus check recently? What kind of specs does the laptop has? SP2? 
Have you updated your video and sound card drivers recently?
You could try disabling Windows sound acceleration to see if that resolves the issue. You can also try disabling Flash video acceleration. Bluescreens are usually hardware/driver related, after all.
You could try disabling Windows sound acceleration to see if that resolves the issue. You can also try disabling Flash video acceleration. Bluescreens are usually hardware/driver related, after all.
benryves wrote:
Have you updated your video and sound card drivers recently?
You could try disabling Windows sound acceleration to see if that resolves the issue. You can also try disabling Flash video acceleration. Bluescreens are usually hardware/driver related, aftr all.
Yeah, I think those would be a good place to start trying to figure it out. You could try disabling Windows sound acceleration to see if that resolves the issue. You can also try disabling Flash video acceleration. Bluescreens are usually hardware/driver related, aftr all.
Well, I installed video drivers, and Youtube still isn't working and my sound is also not working. I guess I should update the sound card drivers too.
Prior to Vista Windows had quite a few issues with hardware-accelerated sound - or, more specifically, the drivers tended to be quite flaky, and disabling sound acceleration usually fixed the issue. Vista got rid of hardware acceleration, as it didn't really provide that much of an advantage in any case.
I got it working. I installed Catalyst, then uninstalled it, and then I went through a lot of tutorials on how to get it working. Thanks anyways, guys. 
souvik1997 wrote:
My mom's laptop crashes with a BSOD when visiting youtube.com. It is running Windows XP, and crashes under IE 7 and Google Chrome.
This is crazy, I'm sure it has nothing to do with Youtube.
Now that you fixed it, do you know what made it happen?
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