Problem: corrupted files

[Fred]

Hello,
I had a problem with my computer (blue screen of death) and I
figured out that my SATA hardrive is bad.
I have replaced the harddrive with the spare IDE harddrive, disconnected
SATA drive and I have installed again Windows XP.
The installation was OK.
However, when trying to update Windows or just run newly downloaded files
from Internet I have message :"The file is corrupted"
How to test that problem?

One thing more. Suspecting BIOS, I have downloaded and updated BIOS for my
machine.
What else can I do? How to diagnose the source of that problem?
Your ideas are appreciated,
Fred

 

[Rick Merrill]

Hello,
I had a problem with my computer (blue screen of death) and I
figured out that my SATA hardrive is bad.
I have replaced the harddrive with the spare IDE harddrive, disconnected
SATA drive and I have installed again Windows XP.
The installation was OK.
However, when trying to update Windows or just run newly downloaded files
from Internet I have message :"The file is corrupted"
How to test that problem?

One thing more. Suspecting BIOS, I have downloaded and updated BIOS for my
machine.
What else can I do? How to diagnose the source of that problem?
Your ideas are appreciated,
Fred

I would run the (long) test of disk sectors that tests the surface, not
just the file structure.

If that has non-repeatable failures then the IDE bus may be flakey.

 

[Fred]

Anyone else, please?
Fred

 

[Andrew Morton]

Hello,
I had a problem with my computer (blue screen of death)
and I figured out that my SATA hardrive is bad.
I have replaced the harddrive with the spare IDE harddrive,
disconnected SATA drive and I have installed again Windows XP.
The installation was OK.
However, when trying to update Windows or just run newly downloaded
files from Internet I have message :"The file is corrupted"
How to test that problem?

One thing more. Suspecting BIOS, I have downloaded and updated BIOS
for my machine.
What else can I do? How to diagnose the source of that problem?
Your ideas are appreciated,

The BIOS is the least likely suspect. Also to worry about: the RAM, the
motherboard, and malware.

Andrew

 

[Fred]

Thank you.
I traced that problem to RAM.
One of 1 GB sticks was bad.
Fred