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Everything I download is corrupted!!! help!!!

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Ph33n

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Im having the worst time with my new hardware...
I recently purchased;

1. ABIT KD7A mainboard
2. AMD XP 2500+ CPU
3. WD 80GB 8MBcache HD
4. 350 watt PSU
5. RADEON 9200

I have trouble sometimes installing windows from the CD, but when I can finally get the OS installed everything I download that is slightly big(5mb plus) gets corrupted!!
If i download the file a few times eventually I will get one that is not corrupt, I know its not my connection because the computer downstairs uses the same one and it is running perfect...

Does this sound like its the motherboard, CPU, or maybe a bad CD rom drive? I am sooo confused and frustrated, i just spent like 350 bucks on all this crap and its basically useless

:(
 
i would suggest to try and swap out the components one at a time to the pc down stairs.
 
Judging from your post, I'm guessing you've reinstalled since this started happening? Also, if you're overclocked, you might try running at stock speeds and seeing if it goes away after a reinstall...

A bad CD drive is a possibility, I had a system I built freeze up a few times on the install, and have unstable/corrupted installs, turned out to be my CD drive I've had since like 1998... You might try a different drive. Other than that... I'd say take it out side with a baseball bat and have at it. :D

Edit: Yet another stupid question... Have you run CHKDSK/Scandisk/whatever?
 
delete all the partitions and start over...
it might be a space disk issue and something went corrup.t
 
I have had alot of squirrelly things like that happen when memory went bad.

Try using the freeware tool MemTest86 and check you RAM.

Also, make sure you have the latest BIOS for your MB. I remember my old ASUS A7V motherboard and how it would randomly crash. After weeks of hair pulling, finally put BIOS 1007C on and everything was golden.
 
RAM is the most likely culprit. I had the same problem with some RAM that died on my work comp. Anything that I downloaded was corrupted.
 
I second memtest.
See what happens when you run it before you pull out all your hardware.
 
Since it's not likely the virus is on the Windows CD (as you said you had trouble installing), there's a VERY good chance its RAM. Bad RAM would ruin virtually any file that passes through it.
 
besides the usual "RAM memtest86" chatter, i suggest something else (although it REALLY shouldn't be this!

Right-Click on My Computer, go to Properties, click on Device Manager, and mouse around for your USB / COM Port connexions

open 'em up (select one, and then click the properties tab at the bottom fo the screen)

then, click on Port Settings and make sure the max it's set to is 115200 bps (if it's set lower, set it up to that), that is the max it can transfer data w/o screwing it up.

also, then click on Advanced and make sure FIFO buffering is enabled, also the Receive Buffer should be set on 14, and the Transmit Buffer on 16.

i doubt it'll help at all, but what the hell...
 
I just had the SAME problem, and it turns out one of my sticks of ram was faulty. Run memtest86.
 
I had a faulty motherboard cause this exact problem not too long ago.
 
Well i ran the memtest program, it ran 5 times with no errors so i would assume my memory is ok.

I installed norton antivirus and zone alarm on my computer before my dsl was hooked up so i would assume i have no viruses or worms.

I have ran multiple disk scanning programs and my HD checks out fine every time, so i would assume its okay.

I have done a full reinstall with the actual microsoft CD's of Windows XP pro like a million times. This time i haven't updated windows and so far its running okay but my downloads are still messing up alot.

So if its not my memory, my hd, or my OS, then it must be the motherboard, my network cabling, or my cd rom drive...

Are there any motherboard or cd rom testing programs available out there?
 
Hrm, try power supply? If its a bit unstable, it might be causing problems. Also, IDE cables. Crappy IDE cables can do this sometimes.
 
Does that 9200 require a molex connection for additional power? If so move it to a cord of it's own. I have been doing some reading suggesthing that that can be a problem.
 
If the memory is good. I would say that its a bad IDE controllers on the MB.
 
I had a similar problem. Turns out it was a known problem with my MSI motherboard. Try a bios update. See if that helps.
 
Problem most likely ram related, try different stick since memtest passed. Could be a bad mb.
 
i had the same problem on my KD7-RAID...i found that if i pushed my FSB too far..the system would run fine and pass prime and everything else i threw at it (190 FSB) but once id DL something or send something over my network...it was corrupted !
i went down on the FSB to 184 and boom everything was fixed.
 
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