What is wrong with my computer?

[hoppa]

My computer has been getting *really* glitchy lately. I can no longer view flash sites for more than a few seconds w/o a browser crash. IE crashes within seconds of going to almost any site. Photoshop and flash crash a lot when doing certain specific operations. MP3s through winamp start getting glitchy.

What's odd about these problems is that they seem to get worse the longer the computer is on. When I fresh boot, everything tends to be fine. Then they gradually get worse and worse.

Note that flash movies run fine when I compile them from flash directly. It's only in browsers they get screwy.

Starcraft and video in all formats run fine.

What the hell is going on? Any ideas?

 

[Engraver]

Elaborate more on what "glitchy" exactly is (graphic/sound corruption, stuttering, etc).

 

[JackMDS]

It seems that the probelm is IE and its ad-ons rather than your computer.

Posting the relevant tech. info would be a very big help to Help you.

 

[hoppa]

Glitchy in this case means that in flash I start having graphics corruption, and then it will just crash. With winamp, it's just sound sputtering and such.
The comment about IE was just that it crashes all the time, but everything else mentioned was in firefox. Note that I don't EVER use IE. Only just have opened it recently to see that flash doesn't work there, either.

 

[hoppa]

Note also that hijackthis log is completely clean.

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

See if you get the same errors with another browser. Try installing a new browser to make sure that you don't have some bad files in your system. Also check heat and memory for standard stuff. I would just run something like super PI, or Prime and see if they make through a 30 minute test...that's a good way to see if you are having some hardware memory/system type bad stuff. Check you system error logs to see if there are any warnings that look bad (event log). Defrag your HDD, run disk check. BACKUP!

that's what I would do.