i am completely 100% convinced that it is the motherboard itself, or a combination of the 1gig-p3 i have in here, which it was freezing even before i did that, and i had a p3-550.

AMD Athlon XP 2000+
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
Phoenix ACPI Bios Rev. 1006
Arctic Cooler Copper Silent + 2 Systemlüfter
550W Power Supply
Windows XP Professional
256 DDR RAM Infinion + 256 DDR RAM Apacer
Leadtek Geforce 4 TI 4200

I have a Compaq Presario 1700T Laptop (600 Mhz, 128 MB, XP Pro) using ATI Rage Mobility AGP, Here's what worked for me:

1. Right clicked on the desktop and chose "Properties"
2. Settings
3. Advanced
4. Troubleshoot
5. UNCHECKED "Enable Write Combining"

...and my problem was gone!

I am the one wo reported having the problem with the Flash one and a half year ago (12/29/2001). By then I had problems with the computer since I bought it in the year 1998.
After years of tests, improvements and changes of components (I tried also to change the BIOS), and getting crazy, I have discovered the reason of the crashes: the motherboard BN633.
I have changed the motherboard and the CPU to an ASUS motherboard with Pentium III, and it works perfectly!!! I can navigate through webs with Flash without any fear to freeze or suddenly reboot the computer.

So I recommend you to take the same measure. There is a way to change the motherboard by keeping all your programs intact, at least under Windows 2000. It is a little bit complicated, but it is worth it. You can find infos searching the Internet.

I own a small business in Montreal. Recently I have tried your email extractor software, which I really like. I did not buy it because you do not offer direct download or cannot deliver the product immediately. This turn it very well because I have found an important bug in your software which many internet user and major developer will be more than happy to found where originate this problem.

I have done many searches on internet to solve this issue that seem to be increasing everyday. Although your software is probably NOT the cause of all this, for many it pin point a direction to fix this bug. I have been able to reproduce successfully this bug on all five computers we have tried. Before we could related this bug to your Poweremail extractor software, we have spend a lot of time to fix this including, updating our system’s software, making long distance technical support calls, email and so on. Here is the bug. Once Poweremail Extractor is been installed on our computer that all run on Windows 98 SE (we mean just installed NOT actually running), certain web pages or web site that include a Flash movie will freeze this windows in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 + even if your software is not running at all. In addition, it sometime causes Outlook Express 6 to crash issuing the following message even if your software is not running too:
MSIM cause in invalid fault in Poweremail.dll (or Poweremailextractor.dll -> can't remember exactly)

After many days spend to solve this issue, because we really need flash to work on the site we build, we have been tips by two strange error messages, which appear to me personally, when I was reading my email messages in Outlook. I have decided to desinstall Poweremail Extractor and immediately check if Internet Explorer could now play flash movies and now it apparently solve all this. Internet Explorer now display flash movie correctly without freezing and Outlook Express has not crash since (many days).

Please note that flash movie could be as little as 15 kb and Netscape 4.7 / 6 is not affected and play correctly all flash movie embedded in web pages. Some web pages or sites that contain flash movie seem working find but most cause Internet Explorer to freeze and stop responding.

Here a link where it causes the browser to freeze (before we removed Poweremail Extractor):

http://www.netlabmultimedia.com/traduction.htm

We have done many tests to check if this web page could have errors in it but we could not find any, neither other independent technical support staff could not.

In the information posted here, nobody mentioned what hardware specs they have, so I was hoping if someone can confirm if they were using an ATI card aswell, or if these were other cards (I did see the one posting talking about having the same issue after swapping out (nearly) all hardware, but it does not mention if this person was using an ATI card or not (and swapped with another ATI card).

: I have also the same problem. It appeared on Windows NT 4.0 and happens also on Windows 2000 Professional. I have replaced the RAM and the AGP graphics card, but the problem persists. I suspect it can be produced by the motherboard (I have a BN633, Pentium II).
: Please tell me if you find a solution. I'm still trying!
: Alberto

: :
: : :well at least i'm not on my own !

: : : : hi, my computer crashes or freezes every time i am on a flash page/ i took my computer in to fix this problem but it still happens, all they did was add new memory and re format my drive ( i lost all m y files, and 200.00 later same problem)
: : : : i have pruchesed a new hard drive, re-installed win 98 about 10 time, bought fix-it utilites, bought at-gard, ect//i cant seem to fix it, this only happens with flash (fla, and swf ) please help me its drive me crazzzyyyyuyyyyyyyyy!!!

: hi, my computer crashes or freezes every time i am on a flash page/ i took my computer in to fix this problem but it still happens, all they did was add new memory and re format my drive ( i lost all m y files, and 200.00 later same problem)
: i have pruchesed a new hard drive, re-installed win 98 about 10 time, bought fix-it utilites, bought at-gard, ect//i cant seem to fix it, this only happens with flash (fla, and swf ) please help me its drive me crazzzyyyyuyyyyyyyyy!!!

Same exact thing happens to me. I've upgraded to windows XP but that didn't fix the problem. I've removed all the hardware from my system.. and replaced it with different parts. The only thing i didnt change is the harddrive (quantum fireball 4gig) and the motherboad P3B-F asus.

:
: :well at least i'm not on my own !

: : : hi, my computer crashes or freezes every time i am on a flash page/ i took my computer in to fix this problem but it still happens, all they did was add new memory and re format my drive ( i lost all m y files, and 200.00 later same problem)
: : : i have pruchesed a new hard drive, re-installed win 98 about 10 time, bought fix-it utilites, bought at-gard, ect//i cant seem to fix it, this only happens with flash (fla, and swf ) please help me its drive me crazzzyyyyuyyyyyyyyy!!!

: hi, my computer crashes or freezes every time i am on a flash page/ i took my computer in to fix this problem but it still happens, all they did was add new memory and re format my drive ( i lost all m y files, and 200.00 later same problem)
: i have pruchesed a new hard drive, re-installed win 98 about 10 time, bought fix-it utilites, bought at-gard, ect//i cant seem to fix it, this only happens with flash (fla, and swf ) please help me its drive me crazzzyyyyuyyyyyyyyy!!!

: : hi, my computer crashes or freezes every time i am on a flash page/ i took my computer in to fix this problem but it still happens, all they did was add new memory and re format my drive ( i lost all m y files, and 200.00 later same problem)
: : i have pruchesed a new hard drive, re-installed win 98 about 10 time, bought fix-it utilites, bought at-gard, ect//i cant seem to fix it, this only happens with flash (fla, and swf ) please help me its drive me crazzzyyyyuyyyyyyyyy!!!