Can a website cause my computer to get a "blue screen of death"?

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FYI.
There is a good chance that the bookmarks are MIA rather then wiped out.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks

I have had a few BSOD's but in each case the blue screen has come up & gone that fast it is impossible to read, much less take down the details. The system then shuts down & restarts.
How do I make it slow down.

This website is a useful troubleshooting tool when deadling with BSODs: http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

Re: Blue Screen of Death

I got those a lot; couldn't figure out the problem! Finally hard drive went bad without any other warning; laptop on warranty and hard drive replaced--computer great now.

For Brian -- To stop your computer from rebooting automatically after a BSOD happens, do the following: Right click on My Computer and choose Properties; click the Advanced Tab; under Startup and Recovery, click the Settings button; then under System Failure, uncheck Automatic Restart (I'm doing this from memory, hopefully it's correct. If not, post again and I'll go and look at my XP machine - I'm on Vista right now).

This might seem stupid, but the problem might exist _because_ you have all new programs, not _despite_ it. New programs are prone to higher hardware resource usage. If, together with that, your wife opens a flashy, cool website, the hardware gets even more worked out. The result is a simple overheating, which makes the system go crazy.
Dusting and vacuum cleaning the insides of your computer might help, though...

my pc have blue screen of death.Can my computer die?

I had the same exact problem with my 3 month old HP with Vista Home Premium. The problem turned out to be the virtual memory settings. It's an easy fix, just increase the size of your virtual memory.
My new computer wasn’t even set to the recommended settings; once I re-set it I had no problems.
Start>Computer>System Properties>Advanced System Settings>
You’ll need permission to go on, click continue...
Click ‘Settings’ in Performance...
Click ‘Advanced’...
Click Change...
Click the ‘custom size’ radio button...
I set ‘initial’ size to 2300 MB or (300 over your amount of RAM),
I set ‘maximum’ to 6000 MB or about (3 X your amount of Ram).

That should do it.

my computer gets a blue screen of deatn it doesnt read the primary or secondary hard disk

I get this BSOD everytime i try to play world of warcraft it dosent even get to the login screen the BSOD pops up and my PC restarts i got uptodate drivers and i got CC cleaner and avg antivirus so i dont know whats causeing the BSOD but i can do anything else but play Worldof warcraft.

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