Downloading problem

[iscaboo]

Hi all

When trying to download files from the net (of any description) I keep getting the message DLL not found, or, file is corrupt. Does anyone have any ideas how I go about fixing this? Thanks in advance.

Win XP home (SP1)
Advent T-9000
P4 3.02 HT
512

Problem is occurring on 56k connection and on 1.1 mb asdl.

[Con]

Be more discriptive please. Are you talking about downloading things with Internet Explorer? if so can you post a screen shot of the error please.

Con

[GrahamGarside]

you could give re-installing sp1 a shot or upgrading to sp2 if theres no problem with doing
does it mention a specific dll?

[iscaboo]

Hi Con

"Be more discriptive please. Are you talking about downloading things with Internet Explorer?"

Well, I'll give you a few examples:

* Tried to download realplayer. click on exe file once downloaded, then i get "Error DLL missing or file corrupt"
* downloaded latest catalyst drivers - clicked on exe - message saying file is corrupt
* Downloaded patches for games (e.g. farcry) - file is corrupt

It seems, however, that small files (e.g. cachman at 556kb) are ok, but larger files (eg the farcry patch was 74mb) seem to get "corrupted".

Graham - no it doesnt mention a specific dLL. I'm a bit dubious about SP2 as I've heard bad things about it.

Thanks for replying

Chris

[Gizmo]

Are you running a RAID, and are you overclocked?

[iscaboo]

Gizmo - no RAID or overclocking. Everything's set to factory.

[GrahamGarside]

so the files are downloading but are corrupt when they are downloaded then?
with it happeing only to larger files I have to concur with gizmo in that it could be either a faulty raid setup or your bus speed is too high, or you may have a damaged ide cable
try switching the cables from your optical drive(s) with the hardrive one
Either that or you have a virus but I would think that would do that to even small files.

[iscaboo]

Hi Graham - and thanks again for help

Is there any info from sisoftsandra (or similar diagnostics) that I could show you that would help? I'm semi-newbie, so I'm not exactly sure of what I'm looking for.

The PC is about 6 months old, and I haven't tweaked it all. here's something interesting from the read me file re: the catalysts:

"Data corruption may occur if the Large System Cache feature is enabled in Windows XP"-

but on checking this, it is disabled.

Re: virus: am running AVG in the background, and periodically check the drive. nothing is showing up.

Cheers

Chris

[danrok]

I would run some diagnostic and benchmarking tools on your system. See if any problems show up with either memory or disks.

The more evidence of problems you can find, the easier it will be to find the cause.

[iscaboo]

Thanks for replies.

I think I've found it, and its really, really stupid.

My temporary internet files cache was set to 10mb. I made it 100 mb, and everything is now working fine. All of the patches etc are not coming up with the error messages.

Cheers

Chris