Google Chrome Suicide Bombs

[dave_the_nerd]

Boot computer. Everything's fine. Launch stuff. Everything's fine. Open Google Chrome. Everything is fine for a few seconds, then Chrome freezes and its window greys out, then becomes completely white. (This takes a few seconds.) Then other applications freeze. Control-alt-delete won't work, Explorer's stuck. Have to hard-reboot machine.

It happened before on my old rigs when I tried to use AHCI to connect my hard drives. I built a new machine last weekend, same thing, but I'm not disabling AHCI so I ditched Chrome instead.

However, some googling seems to indicate that it's not an uncommon problem and can happen anyway. So I suppose it might be a coincidence.

Anyway; has anybody experienced this or found a fix?

 

[cubby1223]

Not the exact similar thing but I have seen Chrome cause consistent total browser lockups when running flash content. Nothing I could do about it except disable flash in Chrome and instruct them to use ie or firefox if they need to view a site with flash.