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| Thread ID: 68751 | 2006-05-09 22:41:00 | Big troubles with downloads. | JJJJJ (528) | Press F1 |
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| 453586 | 2006-05-10 19:21:00 | Have you given Memtest a go yet? | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 453587 | 2006-05-10 21:04:00 | Hi JJJJJ (hope thats the right number of Js) when you look in task manager are any processes related to the nvidia access manager running? also this post (forums.techguy.org) may be of some use otherwise I am no expert here but, is it the same version of winzip on the old box, as on the new box, also have you tried using winRAR instead of winzip Are these files .zip files or .exe (self extracting archive) The reason I ask is i had a minor issue with a client who was unable to open the zip files i had made with winRAR (I could open them with my version of winZip but his kept giving an error) Cheers |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 453588 | 2006-05-11 01:56:00 | Jack, stop stuffing around. Download Memtest86 (www.memtest86.com), make a boot floppy or CD, and run the damn thing. Forget these fantasies about firewalls, video drivers, and all the rest. When decompressors don't like their input, it's almost always bad memory. When it happens only for big input files, it becomes almost certainty. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 453589 | 2006-05-11 02:39:00 | Memtest finds nothing wrong | JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 453590 | 2006-05-11 03:07:00 | Well thanks for all the suggestions. IT'S FIXED!!! I got up at 3 am.this morning and reformated my hard drive. Installed everything again, making very sure that NV firewall was not installed. Got all my stuff loaded again. Tried to download 108 meg. file and it arrived safely. Clicked on the zip file and it installed without a murmer. So it looks like NV firewall was the cause of the trouble. Even though I uninstalled it. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 453591 | 2006-05-11 05:46:00 | At last!! The suspense was nearly killing me. :p Wonder what's going to happen next, huh? :D |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 453592 | 2006-05-11 06:13:00 | There u go, u should listen to the boys, NV firewall, as we said at the start. Now if you had asked how to uninstall in 1st place, u could have slept-in this morning.... :waughh: | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 453593 | 2006-05-12 02:02:00 | I don't think we've heard the last of this problem . :D . . . set my old box up again and downloaded the 108 mb file . It downloaded and installed . I copied the zip file to disk,put it on the new box . It refused to open . Said corrupted file . So I put the cd back in the old box and it opened . Exactly: the file had been downloaded correctly on the old box . But it won't decompress on the new box . I am sure that it was downloaded correctly on the new box too . Would someone like to explain to me just how a firewall can corrupt a compressed file brought to the computer on a CD? Jack has used the "Microsoft" fix: format and reinstall . That does cause many software problems to go away, because it gets all the system settings restored . ;) That's the same way that "installing the latest driver" "fixes" some hardware problems . (Installing the same driver would have the same result) . I suspect that Jack's reinstalled software has caused the decompressor to use a different area of memory . Whether he has NV firewall or not is irrelevant . Memory testing programmes cannot prove memory to be good; they can only detect faults they are capable of detecting . ;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 453594 | 2006-05-12 02:38:00 | I don't think we've heard the last of this problem . :D Exactly: the file had been downloaded correctly on the old box . But it won't decompress on the new box . I am sure that it was downloaded correctly on the new box too . Would someone like to explain to me just how a firewall can corrupt a compressed file brought to the computer on a CD? Jack has used the "Microsoft" fix: format and reinstall . That does cause many software problems to go away, because it gets all the system settings restored . ;) That's the same way that "installing the latest driver" "fixes" some hardware problems . (Installing the same driver would have the same result) . I suspect that Jack's reinstalled software has caused the decompressor to use a different area of memory . Whether he has NV firewall or not is irrelevant . Memory testing programmes cannot prove memory to be good; they can only detect faults they are capable of detecting . ;) Nothing to do with decompressor, solely the NV firewall, and no I wont be going into how as not sure where to begin to explain, other than you thinking of a firewall as a filter . If not correctly configured, or if faulty, the data (contents) comes out of the sieve/strainer corrupted . Also explains why not memory related, as if memory error in beginning, would be the same after re-install . The NV firewall is a hardware, not software firewall, any program run on the pc goes thru the firewall |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 453595 | 2006-05-12 03:00:00 | I don't think we've heard the last of this problem . :D Exactly: the file had been downloaded correctly on the old box . But it won't decompress on the new box . I am sure that it was downloaded correctly on the new box too . Would someone like to explain to me just how a firewall can corrupt a compressed file brought to the computer on a CD? Jack has used the "Microsoft" fix: format and reinstall . That does cause many software problems to go away, because it gets all the system settings restored . ;) That's the same way that "installing the latest driver" "fixes" some hardware problems . (Installing the same driver would have the same result) . I suspect that Jack's reinstalled software has caused the decompressor to use a different area of memory . Whether he has NV firewall or not is irrelevant . Memory testing programmes cannot prove memory to be good; they can only detect faults they are capable of detecting . ;) Yes Graham L I agree with you to a certain extent . You've put in writing exactly what I have been thinking . I didn't go much on the advice to use new downloaders or that I had faulty ram . The files downloaded correctly and they were all the correct size . I think that the real problem was that for some reason or another winzip 10 could just not open them . I heard from a chap in Aust . that he had ,had the same problem while useing winzip 10 . He whent to winzip 9 and had no trouble after that . I have been searching the web for a copy of 8 or 9 but haven't located one that I can download . So at the moment I am use XP's version and am having no trouble at all . As to memory . I changed the memorysticks from one box to the other . I always intended to do that anyway . The old box had good (expensive) memeory in it so I just bought cheap stuff with the new box . But both acted the same way while the downloading saga was going on . At present the new toy is going fine . No complaints of any sort . So keeping fingers crossed . |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
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