MacBook Air freeze and need to be restarted when downloading with a web browser only!

Here is my configuration:
- Macbook air 2012, mountain lion.
Here are the symptoms that affect the computer:
- The computer freezes when I try to download a file through a web browser (tested with chrome and safari). I can download through the Appstore for instance.
So I have to turn it off by long pressing the off button.
Then when I restart it reboot without worries or it restarts again by freezing and by 3 beeps when the desktop appears.
- What I tried to do:
Checking permissions and disk and no problems detected.
Reinstall osx partition from the partition recovery hd, but I got an error when preparing the installation.
I wanted to mention that this problem started to appear when I downgraded parallels desktop 8 to 7 and running my boot camp with parallels 7 but with higher configurations!
and it crashed several times.
I also read that the number of beeps had a precise meaning.
Thank you

I have checked my panic log and this is the text it contains, what does this mean as it means nothing to me?
The Panic Log read;
Sat Mar 31 23:39:06 2007
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x003513C3): mbuf address out of range 0x2ff48000
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x13ebbb84 : 0x128b5e (0x3bbf84 0x13ebbba8 0x131bbc 0x0)
0x13ebbbc4 : 0x3513c3 (0x3db980 0x2ff48000 0x13ebbc04 0x196fd8)
0x13ebbc04 : 0x356b83 (0x25a6ca00 0x297 0x13ebbc44 0x22ff2a)
0x13ebbc44 : 0x22cde5 (0x346e9d4 0x6 0x1 0x200a8c0)
0x13ebbe14 : 0x222007 (0x25a6c500 0x14 0x13ebbf14 0x94c9ce)
0x13ebbe54 : 0x223a8b (0x25a6c500 0x14 0x6 0x0)
0x13ebbf64 : 0x211109 (0x25a6c500 0x25a6c500 0x42cb5c 0x135798)
0x13ebbfa4 : 0x1f773d (0x2b50a04 0x25a6c500 0x25a59812 0x1)
0x13ebbfd4 : 0x197a29 (0x0 0x0 0x2643880 0x134aec) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.2: Thu Apr 13 18:48:29 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.9.59.obj~1/RELEASE_I386
Your website mentions about drivers for certain peripherals, I have a 54MBPS Wireless ADSL2+ Modem Router which was supplied by my ISP, do I need a driver for this to solve this problem?
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