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scorchx
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Peasant

Okay, so two days ago, I head to use my PC for a few hours, and I loaded up a new game called Must-a-mine, and was enjoying it. I'd played for about an hour, when the speakers began to make an god awful buzz noise and my system locked up, followed by a total crash of multicolored diagonal wavy lines down the screen. Last night, the same thing happened. I know the PC is not new, it's about 3 years old, a Windows 7 model, but this has happened twice playing the same game.

Is it possible for a bug in a flash game to crash an entire system?

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SirLegendary
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Yes. It is possible, but pretty unlikely.

My guess is that your hardware is old. I think that your pc crashed because one of the parts already had a major problem. Can you specify your PC specs? or the model of your PC? Maybe I can do some research on your PC's specs, just to rule out the possibility of having old components.

scorchx
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Peasant

Well, we got the PC about 3 years ago, just after the new year or just before...about december 2011.

These stats come from Amazon, as we havn't modified the computer

Acer Aspire X1420
Brand Acer
Item Weight 8 Kg
Product Dimensions 52.3 x 34 x 18.8 cm
Item model number PT.SG9E2.003
Processor Brand AMD
Processor Type Athlon 64 X2
Processor Speed 2.8 GHz
RAM Size 3 GB
Hard Drive Size 1 TB
Graphics Card Description None
Operating System: Windows 7 Edition Home Premium
Lithium Battery Weight 25 Grams

Gantic
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Does this happen with other Flash games that you leave up for a long time? Particularly resource heavy ones?

scorchx
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Peasant

No, it's never happened in other flash games. Only must-a-dig, so now i'll only play for short bursts.

scorchx
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Peasant

And it's just happened again. 5 minutes after loading. It has to be the game, nothing else is causing it.

I'm running Chrome and the only extension running is adblock Plus.

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scorchx
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Peasant

I've disabled adblock.

I'll give it one more try.

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