as of thursday night last. any file I download via a download manger is corrupted. files are coming off premium rapidshare. I tried using net transport 2. flashget jdownloader . same problem all. did a virus scan with avg 9 pro no problems detected. system is running XP media centre edition on a dell inspiron 1501 on 2 gigs of ram. Broadband is a 20 mega and laptop is using a wired connection. any possible solutions thank you
1. What type of files have you downloaded? 2. "corrupted" What error message are you getting 3. Have you tried d/Ling a small or single file with "Save Target As"?
video files either solid avi or split over a few rars winrar gives a crc error. solid avi play for a bit and go pixel-ated before playing for a bit again. I have tried d/Ling a small or single file with "Save Target As small files around 50mega seem to extract but everything else is being corrupted. I ran the MS RAM tester no problems listed.
Have you tried going to another computer? Even if you have to go to an Internet cafe download 1 segment of a file that has been identified as corrupt and do a fc file compare between that segment and one that you downloaded on your PC. That will definitely isolate it to your PC. I am not familiar with the MS RAM tester. Use this one: http://www.ramprobe.com/ or this one: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/memtest.html Do not run it for just one pass. Let it run for an hour or so.
I think I know what your problem is, I encountered it before. Your downloading too many files at one time. I use internet download manager(IDM), when I first started using it I also was getting corrupted rar files. I fixed the problem by limiting how many files it downloaded at one time to 3 files. Before it was downloading 6 files at one time. Since I limited downloads to 3 files , I havent had a corrupted file (almost 2 years).
after trying it on different system it appears to be my system at fault. decided to do a clean install and everthing working again now. thank you for the help
