Poptropica crashes my computer

[Kevin the Drummer]

Why would my son playing the Flash games at this site
http://www.poptropica.com/ cause my computer to spontaneously
turn off?

I thought it might be heating up the CPU too much, because the
CPU goes up to 90% as shown by top. So, I installed Ksensors and
monitored all the voltages and temperatures while playing Poptropica
stuff. The machine did shut off, but all of the sensors were quite
happy.

Then I thought it might be memory trouble. So, I installed memtest86+
and let it run for a very, very long time. No errors were reported.

The game runs in Flash 9 running inside the most up to date Firefox 2.

OK, what gives? What could be toxic about that website to my Mandriva
2008.0 distribution running on a 600MHz Duron with 512MB of RAM?

Thanks.....

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[Tris Orendorff]

Kevin the Drummer <nob...@cosgroves.us> burped up warm pablum in news:slrngc6o13...@joseph.cosgroves.us:

> The game runs in Flash 9 running inside the most up to date Firefox 2.
>
> OK, what gives? What could be toxic about that website to my Mandriva
> 2008.0 distribution running on a 600MHz Duron with 512MB of RAM?

Two things:

Did you monitor the temperature.of the video card? I had a dust-bunny clog up the fan on my video card and it caused several unwanted shutdowns.

I had a great deal of trouble with Flash 9.and Firefox 2. Never a power problem--just a FF crash. Once I upgraded to FF 3, all was okay. A sure crash was with FF 2 on the "animation" section of the Dilbert website [dilbert.com/animation]. My FF would go down more than Paris Hilton after a magnum of champagne...

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[Kevin the Drummer]

Tris Orendorff <tr...@remove-me.cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Kevin the Drummer <nob...@cosgroves.us> burped up warm pablum in news:slrngc6o13...@joseph.cosgroves.us:
>
> > The game runs in Flash 9 running inside the most up to date Firefox 2.
> >
> > OK, what gives? What could be toxic about that website to my Mandriva
> > 2008.0 distribution running on a 600MHz Duron with 512MB of RAM?
>
> Two things:
>
> Did you monitor the temperature.of the video card?

No. How does one do that?

> I had a
> dust-bunny clog up the fan on my video card and it caused
> several unwanted shutdowns.

I can check that visually.

> I had a great deal of trouble with Flash 9.and Firefox
> 2. Never a power problem--just a FF crash. Once I
> upgraded to FF 3, all was okay. A sure crash was with
> FF 2 on the "animation" section of the Dilbert website
> [dilbert.com/animation].

I can try Firefox 3 I suppose.

> My FF would go down more than Paris Hilton after a magnum of
> champagne...

Ouch. ;-)

Thanks for the ideas!