Unable to compress????

[UberPooner]

Hi, i just built new computer with an asus a8n sli board amd 4000+ 7800gtx and 2g of ram. now the problem is, whenever i dowload anything from the internet and then open the file and it is dowlloading it gets to the end then it says; setup decompression failed, possible download error. please download this file again or contact your system admin.
it did that with my steam install and it did that with me trying to dowload quick time. also i downloaded steam from a disk and taht worked. sooo what can i do to fix this???

 

[UberPooner]

anyone?????

 

[IceDigger]

Check your computer for viruses. Download a trial version of NOD32 and update and run it.

 

[nst6563]

Are you overclocked? Are you using the NF4 ethernet + firewall setup? I've heard of data corruption when using the NF4 ethernet + NF4 firewall (you can search it here on the [H]...that's were I read of it a long time ago)

 

[BlindedByScience]

Windows caches large chunks of data to RAM during downloads or file transfers. I'd fire off a run of Memtest86+ set for "all tests" and let it go all night. "No Errors" is the only acceptable answer. If that passes, I'd want to see the drive(s) pass their diagnostic tests (download from mfgr's site) at least three or four times.

I've seen flakey optical drives do this, but if you are getting this on downloads, you of course have other issues.

Good Luck - B.B.S.