rar, sfv, and errors

[lamplighter]

I've been downloading a few BIN/CUEs lately that come in RAR files. However, I've been having tons of errors when trying to unrar. First of all, I used Win-SFV to check the files, and it would always show different files were bad. For example, lets say there were 30 RARs, the first time it might say 5,7,12,18 are bad, and the second time it might show 5,6,7,20 are bad. This would be the same when I tried to unrar them with Winrar - always giving different errors. Sometimes there would only be one or two files corrupt, and if I unrarred enough times it would create the BIN without error. Then I got Quick SFV, and it is more consistent and I can make sure all the files are okay, but Winrar still gives many errors and I have to try many times before it works. So I decided to try on my brother's almost identical computer - Duron 600, Asus A7V, 256 MB ram, Win2k. His never gives these errors and works perfectly. If Quick SFV has one corrupt file, I redownload it, and it says its okay, and Winrar makes the BIN in one try. Can anyone give me any ideas on why this is happening? The hardware and software seem to be so similar... if I reformatted my computer do you think it would work?

 

[JayPatel]

<< I've been downloading a few BIN/CUEs lately that come in RAR files >>

damn those warez files definitely wierd...defrag ur harddrive, d/l the latest winrar and retry.

 

[The Sauce]

That's weird dude, that never happens to me. Makes me think you must be having some memory or CPU-related errors being generated. No other way to explain that. Are you able to run games and stuff ok otherwise? Try doing it at default settings (i.e. not overclocking).