Downloads Corrupted

[Guest]

Hi all,

I can not download files correctly. I first noticed, using firefox, that I
couldn't download anything, I just put this down to a FF bug and just used
IE7. IE would download files, and they seemed to be fine, although d/l rates
were v slow.
Now however, I have been d/l some zip files, and I can not uncompress them
as they are corrupted. I have tried d/l them onto another PC and they are
fine there, so I know it isn't the files themselves. I even tried some ZIP
repairers, and alternate decompressors, but the files are beyond repair after
d/l.
It is not my router/connection, as they work when d/l to my laptop, but a
file d/l to my PC, then transferred to the laptop will not uncompress. So
something on my PC is stopping the files being d/l correctly.
I have turned off all unnecessary apps, and stopped my virus scanner from
looking at web access and also turned off my firewall, still no success.
Virus scans come up clean, as do adware searches.
As such, I am at a loss, so turn to you knowledgeble types with a plea of
help.

Thanks in advance,
Bobby

Oh, also the files being d/l are not very large, only about 32 - 128Mb,

 

[Martin C]

Probably not the case in your instance, but do you have any download
accelerator applications in use on your PC. They have been known to cause
some problems like this in the past.

Martin

 

[Alan T]

Hi,
I have the same problem.
I just wonder this is the problem of download accelerator, I got
FreeDownload Manager, it worked fine in my previous XP machine, all
downloaded installer worked fine. Now I installed XP in another machine also
has FreeDownload Manager installed. All files (ie installer) are corrupted.

I had a bad experience with installing XP:
Last year I tried to install XP but got some errors while installing -
cannot read files from the CD. I skipped them and finally installed. Then
some strange problems came up including this same problem.

Now my recently XP installation had no problem, very smooth but this same
problem arise.

 

[dobey]

It could be drive controller issues.

Check you have the latest chipset drivers and BIOS.