Is Voodoo 5 compatible with Shockwave/Flash?

[Frobisher]

HI!
I hope someone out there can help me. I am having a problem when surfing the web. Any time I come to a site that is running a "Flash" program or a "Shockwave" game my computer either crashes or completely freezes up. The same thing happens when playing on the "Shockwave Machine". I have e-mailed Macromedia and Shockwave about this problem but I have yet to get a response.
A friend told me that the problem might be that I have a firewall running at the same time, namely "Black Ice Defender". But I don't think thats the case since I have another friend who also has "Black Ice Defender" and A Ge Force 2 and has no probelms.
I have the latest versions of Shockwave/Flash and also the latest(and last) Voodoo 5 Drivers. This probelem has been around even on older Voodoo 5 Drivers. My Computer specs are

Pentium 3 933Mghz
Windows Me
Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
Sound Blaster Live X Gamer 5.1
Viewsonic 17' monitor
256 Meg RAM
Asus CUV4X Motherboard

I really hope you can help me. My son wants to check out the children sites but most of them are running Flash and Shockwave programs.

Thanks in advance

Frobisher

 

[Dark4ng3l]

well this wont help you much but ive never hard of any video card/driver related problems with flash.

 

[SleepyGuy]

it has nothing to do with your video card. either an IE problem (i'm guessing you use IE) or an IE plugin (shockwave/flash) problem. reinstall IE or the plugins.