Guest legg Posted April 28, 2008 Posted April 28, 2008 Over the last three days, I've tried to access two separate youtube links on two separate occasions to find the W98 system freezes as the page is initially displayed. No keybd/mouse response. Required a hardware reboot to recover. I don't normally access youtube, but had done so in the previous week without problems. First link was: The first time the problem occurred, I did a quick disk check - lost clusters found (and repaired). I retried the same link with number crunching background activity disabled - with the same result. Repeated disk check and then attempted to run defrag - incomplete after hitting a bad sector. This was repaired by running a complete disk check, including the surface test, after which the defrag would complete. Retried the link a third time with number crunching disabled - with the same result. Disk checked again without errors. The failed attempt to reach a differing Youtube link today (same system freeze), suggests that the problem wasn't going away by itself. The browser used is still the older Mozilla 1.7.11 - no changes here in over a year, and none expected in the future (without migrating to firefox or seamonkey). Trying for the same link using IE6 (rarely used but as up to date as MS permits) I got a blue screen that would not recover but that allowed a keybd ctrl/alt/del to reboot. Repeating this (if only to note down the OE exception number) produced normal performance.....? Repeating the attempt using default Mozilla then also produced normal performance. What could be responsible for this strange behavior in this W98 2ed OS (-8th year without reinstall)? Of course the youtube link was a waste of time, as usual. RL -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
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