# SDMB is crashing my computer!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-crashing-my-computer/60957>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 5, 2001, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-crashing-my-computer/60957 "2001-04-05T18:26:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-crashing-my-computer/60957/1 "2001-04-05T18:26:15Z")

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In my office, they just replaced my old desktop with an IBM ThinkPad. Ever since, at least twice a day, my computer has frozen while I’ve been scrolling down a thread on the message board. It completely freezes - I can’t use Ctrl-Alt-Del to get out, but have to turn my computer off and on.  
I haven’t had this problem on other Web sites, although I admittedly spend more time here than on others. 😉

As I’m actually supposed to be working, this isn’t really something I can bring up with the IT department here. Has anyone else had this problem, or any suggestions on what’s causing it/what I can do about it.

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**Author:** ![Omniman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bcef8e/32.png) [@Omniman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniman)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-crashing-my-computer/60957/2 "2001-04-05T23:24:17Z")

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This has come up before here’s some threads with different things to try.

[Poll: How often has your computer crashed in the last 40 hours of use?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=53959)  
[Computer locks up](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=50333)  
[Now my wordpad is f\*\*\* up!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=55166)

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**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-is-crashing-my-computer/60957/3 "2001-04-06T15:27:47Z")

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Thanks, **omni**. I’ll give them a try.

Sua