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Daniel Crichton wrote:
> roblarson@earthlink.net wrote on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:01:49 -0500:
>
> > Has anyone else had this problem? I can no longer run the Macromedia's
> > Flash player in Windows XP with IE6 without getting a ton of explorer
> > crashes, always with the same message (IE has encountered a problem and
> > must close.....). How can I find out why this is happening? Microsoft
> > and Macromedia (now Adobe) have no answers that I can find. Please help.
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Rob
>
> I get this on one of my PCs too - I dug around a while ago in the
> Macromedia forums and there were loads of posts suggesting an issue with
> the Flash Player on machines using the onboard C-Media sound on VIA based
> motherboards (the machine I have a problem with has the KT133 chipset, my
> other PC which does not has an nForce2 chipset). Only Flash pages
> utilising audio have problems. The result of most of the threads was that
> the Macromedia Flash developers were aware of the issue, but did not have
> a timeframe for a fix, and as they were being bought by Adobe development
> was being frozen on the player. I'm not sure if the business situation
> has changed, but the technical issue is still there. I managed to reduce
> the number of crashes by reducing sound hardware acceleration in Control
> Panel down to zero, but it still crashes from time to time - much to the
> annoyance of my daughter who spends a lot of time on the CBeebies
> website, which is 99% Flash based.
> Dan