Flaming Badger

[MrCoffee]

Firefox has been driving me nuts!

it works fine until i start downloading something then it reboots my computer. No blue screen or error message it just reboots and this only happens when I download!

Any ideas? I've tried reinstalling firefox (having stripped all files and reg entries) still happens.

 

[H4x3r]

hmm make sure the CPU isn't gettin too hot...or you're not running out of ram....download speedfan and see

 

[Tyler1989]

Like before sounds like hardware is overheating

 

[Osiris]

does it happen it IE?

 

[MrCoffee]

Admittedly it does sound like overheating but my temps are fine and I don't get any errors running prime95. Plus this only happens when downloading in firefox, I can play ut04 or whatever for hours with no problem.

All thats changed recently is firefox has relesed a new version, i've installed a few extra extensions (which i'm not using on the new install) i've upgraded my Kaspersky antivirus from 5 to 6 and i've started using Ewido.

I have checked the drive for errors and defraged it, theres nothing significant in the event viewer (although I am getting some sort of error from the event service itself).

Any suggestions welcome, I think the previous install of firefox got corrupted and somehow thats still affecting the new install.

 

[MrCoffee]

OK sorry for the double post but I just tried this in IE and the same thing happend!

What is going on! Whats more It seems to be realted to a Specific file i'm trying to download, i've downloaded a few other files without problems.

THe file thats causeing the problems is the cod2 demo from gamespot, it starts downloading and after about a minute my PC reboots.