# computer problems, crashes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-problems-crashes/579083>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 20, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-problems-crashes/579083 "2011-04-20T15:26:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-problems-crashes/579083/1 "2011-04-20T15:26:18Z")

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So last night I was just browsing along on Chrome like usual, and Chrome hung up, not unusual, but it usually fixes itself after a few seconds, and kills the unresponsive page. But then the whole computer just completely froze up and I couldn’t move the mouse or anything. So I just had to turn it off and then back on. So it came up fine. And then I opened up AIM and it worked fine. Then I opened Chrome again, and it worked for a minute, then the computer crashed again and I got a scary blue screen with error text, then it reset itself automatically. Then I turned it back on, and I opened AIM and it worked, and then went to bed, and in the morning it was fine. AIM was still up fine. And then I opened chrome and before it even loaded the home page it crashed the computer again and restarted. Now I am scared to open Chrome because Google must be conspiring against my computer. On Firefox now and it works fine. Has Chrome turned evil or is my computer dying.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-problems-crashes/579083/2 "2011-04-20T15:27:43Z")

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Does Chrome keep trying to bring up the last page you were on when it closed/crashed?

I would try uninstalling Chrome, downloading the latest, and installing that.

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**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-problems-crashes/579083/3 "2011-04-20T15:28:51Z")

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It had the “click here to restore your old pages” button but I didn’t click it. It was just trying to get to google when it crashed.

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**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-problems-crashes/579083/4 "2011-04-20T23:42:03Z")

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uninstalled and reinstalled chrome and it’s working fine now.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-problems-crashes/579083/5 "2011-04-21T07:40:15Z")

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> [@PSXer](#):
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> uninstalled and reinstalled chrome and it’s working fine now.

Good. For future reference, that is always the first thing you should try. Well, first after restarting the program and rebooting.