Consistent CRC errors on everything I download

[vellox]

Lately everything I've downloaded has been giving me CRC errors. This includes zips, rar's and exe's. I know it must be something on my end because others have downloaded these files from the same source with no problems. Here's what I've tried so far.

Ran Memtest86 for 2 hours with no problems
Reset my bios to Fail-safe defaults
Ran a full system scan in Norton with the latest definitions
Ran chkdsk and defrag
Tried extracting on all 3 hard drives
Tried different rar and zip programs

I'm losing my mind, I have no idea what could be causing this, as about 2 weeks ago everything was working fine.

My specs are as follows

EpoX 8KHA+ with latest official BIOS
Athlon XP 1600 @1.4ghz (No overclocking)
2x256mb DDR Micron RAM
1 40 gb Maxtor hard drive and 1 60gb Maxtor hard drive (both onboard IDE)
1 WD 100gb hd on a Promise ATA-100 PCI IDE card
Visiontek Geforce3TI200 with latest 40.72 drivers
Creative Audigy with latest drivers
Windows XP Pro with latest VIA 4-in-1's

 

[NetworkDad]

Are you on a dialup connection? If so, try this:

-Reseat your modem.
-Check your internal wiring in your house. Test it for connectivity if you can gain access to a line tester.
-Call your local phone company - You can have them test your phone line up to the demarc at your house. They can listen for tones, static, and tell how and where calls route through different telco switches. I personally have dealt with the telco on these issues many times in which they end up finding a poorly wired demarc, or a bad phone switch in their network.
Like i said though, they are only responsible for testing up to the demarc. It may cost you extra to get them to test the cabling in your home.

-One other thing. CRC's would highly be unlikely to be caused by anything in your PC, other than the modem or a NIC card itself. Don't waste your time with your other PC hardware.

HTH
~Jason

 

[Tallgeese]

What kind of connection to Internet?

 

[vellox]

Cable with a DLINK nic, I will try a different NIC and get back to you.

 

[styrafoam]

I had this problem a couple years ago on a different system, and I was never able to isolate it 100%. I installed a 13gig deskstar and every file over 20 megs or so that passed my C: drive would be corrupt. I could use getright to save to my D: drive(a seperate physical drive) and the file would be fine, but letting Internet explorer download something would always result in corruption, as it caches to the C: drive and then pastes to the destination. I found 1 other person with the same problem and same motherboard/hardrive combo on a Via message board so I chalked it up to a wierd hardware conflict and got a different hard drive.

Where you had a functional system recently I doubt this is your problem, but just for kicks, disable DMA on your C: drive to see if it goes away.

 

[Gaunt]

I've seen this happen before over lan with a RealTech (sp?) NIC. The problem was faulty network drivers.

Maybe try just getting new drivers for your NIC, or failing that, re-install the ones you have now.