When I first read this post, I thought you were on drugs.
 
... until it happened to me!
No idea why, but i'll be keeping an eye out for it happening again!
 
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Pentium II 450@504 4.5X112
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Diamond Viper V770 Ultra
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Seagate 13.6 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66
Western Digital 13.4 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66
Quantum 8.3 Gig
36X Acer CD Rom
Viewsonic PS790 19" Sweet as Heck Monitor
3Com NIC
Lexmark 5700 Printer
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problem must be because of the hw . i mean it is impossible ,ie5 to crash the whole system. maybe rams , graphic card or something else . but not the ie5 .

Well here's what happened with mine.
 
Have you notice your mouse skipping around alot when it happens? Perhaps when your start menu appears, the highlighter doesnt follow your curser fast enough?
 
What I found was that after I had done some tweaking of my registry, then ran task manager to look at performance, my processor was being over 70% utilized all the time. Normally it should be around 3%, for a p2 450. This was crashing my browser as well as a couple other things.
 
Check out your task manager and look at your system performance.... make sure your processor is being utilized correctly. Since I reinstalled, I havn't had the problem at all, and my processor utilization is back down to <3%. Hope this helps!
 
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Sound Blaster Live! Value
Seagate 13.6 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66
Western Digital 13.4 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66
Quantum 8.3 Gig
36X Acer CD Rom
Viewsonic PS790 19" Sweet as Heck Monitor
3Com NIC
Lexmark 5700 Printer
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i crashed when i choosed favorites , (when it appeared).
i did not do any registry tweaking.
but cel333 and 64mb may not be enough.
otherwise it is a hw problem. ie5 crashes w98 so often which drives me crazy .
but when i do a burnin test . no problem it works for hours.
i cant find out the problem.

IE5 crashed my PC as well, more than once. I was clicking on a link for example, and it did nothing...tried twice, three times, and my PC just rebooted...no BSOD, nothing! I switched to 98, which gave me problems after a while with IE5.01 (IE instances spawned out of nowhere, eating up my resources), so finally i switched to NT and Netscape Thank God that only IE2 is bundled with NT. Lame Adaptec EasyCD Creator 4.0 needs IE5 (?!) so forget that too...
An advice for u: reinstall IE5 that comes on any MS cd (like Office2000) or dload from the web...that fixed my problem (for a while)

Was it a keyboard/mouse freeze, but everything else seemed normal (mp3/mpegs keep playing, web page still displayed)? I mean, no sign of crash excpet you can't input anything?
 
If so, do a search on the message board for hard freeze, and click "hard freeze in win2k"
 
Alot of people are having a random freeze problem, but not necessarily associated with IE5.
 

Quote:Originally posted by phx2k:i 've using w2k for 2 months and never had a crash . until today.
when i was surfing the net with ie5 , computer crashed . no bsod no error message.
i just freezed.
i had the same problem in w98 so often, that was the reason i am using w2k now. But how could the ie5 locked up all the system.Any experiences?
my conf:
cel333
ex pcpartner
64mb hyundai ram
diamond 550 viper
13 gb quantum lc08
apache 56k hcf fax modem
3.2 gb quatum fireball
pioneer36x cdrom
aztech pci q3 64 soundcard(disebled, has no drivers)
any advice will be helpfull.
 
 
 
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BP6 running QQ Beta BIOS
HPT 366 1.231 Beta UDMA66
Dual Celeron 366 @ 566MHZ
128MB Samsung -GL
IBM UDMA66 13.6g
WDC UDMA33 5.1g
Toshiba 32x
OTI Socrates 2x2x6x
V3-2000-AGP clocked @ 166
SB AWE64 Value
Kingston PCI 10/100 NIC
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Software:
Win2K Pro Retail (2195)
Office 2000 Premium
NA ViruScan NT 4.03a
Mobo Monitor 4.10

I also experienced the IE5 crash yesterday. I was in the middle of downloading a lot files (clicking on links, right-clicking to "save as" etc.) And then suddenly clicking on links did not have any effect. Only Right-clicking on a link and choosing "open in new window" actually followed the link.
 
Then suddenly the screen went blue (not "the" blue screen, but I could only see the blue background pattern). The only thing moving on the screen was the mouse pointer.
 
I ctrl-alt-del'ed, to get to task manager, and then suddenly I was back at the normal Win2k desktop. Only with the exception that my "connected to the Internet (ADSL)" icon had disappeared from systray (but I was still connected).
 
Andy

Ever sice I installed the 5.13 Det drivers all my computer did was freeze up in IE but when i went back to the 3.81 drivers it stoped freezing and ran as smooth as ever