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geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Laptop freezes regularly when watching youtube and other online videos

Hi all,

I've been having this serious problem for quite a while. My computer randomly freezes when I watch videos from various websites, including youtube. About once a day or two, when I watch a video the computer freezes completely, some leds blink, and the sound loops over the last 2 seconds of whatever was heard. There is no way to kill X or reboot, other than hard reset. Not even the magic sysReq key works.

The problem happens even when I use the HTML5 player in youtube, so I doubt it has to do with flash. It also happens to both firefox and chromium.

I'm not sure where to start. Any ideas would be appreciated.

EDIT: I never gave the specs. It's a Dell inspiron 1525 with 4GB of ram and intel core 2 duo T810 at 2.10Hz. My graphics cars is intel. More details:

  *-display:0             
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary)
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 0c
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:30 memory:fea00000-feafffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:eff8(size=8)
  *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
       description: Display controller
       product: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary)
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2.1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
       version: 0c
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:feb00000-febfffff

Last edited by geo909 (2015-06-08 11:02:03)

jinal

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Registered: 2014-10-26

Posts: 19

Re: Laptop freezes regularly when watching youtube and other online videos

Probably not related, but what's the your memory usage in these situations? Perhaps keep an htop instance open on the side?

geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Re: Laptop freezes regularly when watching youtube and other online videos

Probably not related, but what's the your memory usage in these situations? Perhaps keep an htop instance open on the side?

I'll do that, thanks.