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IE constantly crashing!!! Help!!

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impudence

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I have a recently built PC running athlonxp 3000 Windows XP and a crappy soyo k7vme board. Interent Explorer constantly crashes on me. No wanring no error message just that stupid report this to Microsoft box. I tried switching to mozilla firefox (which I'm using right now) it crashes just as often. The problem seems to be related to java or plugins in general. There is almost always a plug-in running when it crashes. The problem happens most often with streaming video. When I advance the video forward and back it often crashes. I have run repeated spy ware and virus scans and there is nothing there. This is driving me batty any ideas???
 
Hmm. I recently started having some crashing issues with my Firefox too, in W2K, that was rock-stable prior. I had no problems with the upgrade to a 1.0PR 2004-10-14 nightly, I upgraded my extensions, etc. I then decided to try the FlashGot extension, which I guess behaves a little different than most, since it installs an actual executable binary into the profile as a helper app. Well, I decided that the extension wasn't doing me much good, so I un-installed it. I started having crashes, and one thing that I noticed was, that the \Mozilla\Firefox\pluginreg.dat or whatever file had changed, and some settings associated with plugins listed as in a sub-directory of my Opera installation, appeated to have become "active". Even wierder, I had the same plugins listed twice, once in the Opera plugin dir, and once in the Firefox dir, and the Firefox ones were newer. So I think that somehow, by un-installing FlashGot, I cause Firefox to re-scan for plugins, and it somehow "activated" the older versions of some things like Flash from the Opera installation directory, with priority over the newer ones in my Firefox program directory. 🙁

So one thing that you could try, would be re-naming/moving \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\pluginreg.dat, and possibly any of the plugins that might reside in another browser's program/plugin directory, and see what happens.
 
I'm mildly confused as to what your suggesting. Since the problem existed before I ever got firefox, why would renaming pluginreg.dat help??

As a side note this page caused firefox to crash twice before I could load it.
 
Originally posted by: impudence
I'm mildly confused as to what your suggesting. Since the problem existed before I ever got firefox, why would renaming pluginreg.dat help??

As a side note this page caused firefox to crash twice before I could load it.
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I guess I was mostly commented on "The problem seems to be related to java or plugins in general. ", but I did happen to overlook that the problem occurred with IE as well.

Also, "recently built" - have you had strange crashing problems ever since the PC was assembled, or did they start to happen later?
 
There have been the errant system crash here and there about once a week pretty much since I built the thing. I am beginning to suspect a problem either in the mobo or the athlon chip. but i'm sorta grasping at straws here.
 
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