Amanda

Hiya

My pc stopped working after the electricity went out a couple of weeks ago. After checking everything I figured that it'd probably be my motherboard, so I replaced it and with that also the processor. I also had to buy a new videocard because my old one was a AGP and my new motherboard is a PCI Express and I had to replace my power supply since that one was broken too.
I already had my pc for 2 years so upgrading wasn't such a bad thing to do, especially since I like MMO's.

I had everything installed without any problems but now everytime I want to download something or just update a program or game, I get corrupt downloads.
These are the messages I get :

and

I also have the following errors and warnings in my event log :
Error
Event ID : 11
Source : Disk
Description : The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk5\D

Warning
Event ID : 1003
Source : DHCP
Description : Your computer was not able to renew its address from the network (from the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address 001731F3458F. The following error occurred:
The semaphore timeout period has expired. . Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server.

Warning
Event ID : 57
Source : ftdisk
Description : The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.

At first I thought that maybe my harddrives where broken but even when I replace them with my external one I still have the same problem (that one wasn't connected at the time). I've doublechecked all the cables too and they seem fine. Also reinstalling windows with the full format doesn't help.
Turning off my firewall doesn't help either nor does disconnecting my cardreader.
I've done the full checkdisk, tried to use Powermaxx to check my maxtor hdd's in dos but it can't seem to find any hardware to begin with.
I've also done virusscans and adwarescans too.
It can't be the internetconnection either since the other 2 pc's have absolutly no problem and I have to download things on theirs if I need anything. I've also updated my software.

I've googled the Event ID's but I can't find anything that might work on mine.

These are the specs of my pc :

Computer
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name ADA (Amanda)
User Name Amanda

Motherboard
CPU Type DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 50385 MHz (12 x 4199)
Motherboard Name A8N32-SLI Deluxe
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce4, AMD Hammer
System Memory 1024 MB (DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (04/28/06)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS (256 MB)
Monitor BenQ FP767-12 [17" LCD] (1430342)

Multimedia
Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP04 - Audio Codec Interface

Storage
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRaid 5 Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive Maxtor 6 B200P0 USB Device (200 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Disk Drive Maxtor 6Y160M0 (160 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA)
Disk Drive Maxtor 6Y160M0 (160 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA)
Optical Drive _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG (DVD+R9:4x, DVD+RW:16x/4x, DVD-RW:16x/4x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/24x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions
C: (NTFS) 156319 MB (49655 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 156327 MB (7609 MB free)
J: (NTFS) 194474 MB (5082 MB free)
Total Size 495.2 GB (60.9 GB free)

Input
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse Logitech USB TrackMan Wheel

Network
Network Adapter NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller (192.168.1.100)

Peripherals
Printer Broderbund PDF Converter 2.10d
USB1 Controller nVIDIA MCP04 - OHCI USB Controller
USB2 Controller nVIDIA MCP04 - EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Mass Storage Device

I have absolutely no idea of what else I can do so I hope that someone here can help me.

Regards Amanda

schultzy92

are you downloading zip or rar files

Amanda

Mostly yes but I've never had any problems with those.
I can barely update programs as windows and such. I still have a couple of critical updates and software ones I want to download. :S

Regards Amanda

Archangel

Did you try running Memtest86?

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Amanda

I haven't even heard of the program to be honest.
But I'll see if I can find it.

Archangel

http://www.memtest86.com/

the image you can donwload has to be burned onto a CD, then put the CD in the drive and reboot your system.

its a program that scans the RAM.. i had a similair problem once, and it turned out that 2 of the 4 RAM modules were corrupt/wern't compartible with my motherboard

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Logitech MX Revolution mouse, G-15 keyboard, Saitek X-45 AeroEngine II case
Corsair HX620W PSU

Amanda

I already found it but thanks for the link anyway.

I just ran the program a couple of times but it keeps on getting stuck, This is what the screen shows :



It doesn't tell me much but is sure looks bad.
My old ram should be compatible with the new motherboard btw since it's the same as what they say the new one uses. I checked it while I was ordering the new parts. It could be damaged of course.

Archangel

that is bad indeed.. it looks either your ram is incompartible, or its corrupred

try upping the voltage in the Bios by 0.2v, that could help.. but if that doesnt help i dont know what you could do anymore except getting new RAM ( and i hate suggestion people to buy something because what they have doesnt work anymore )

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Asus Maximus Formula
Asus & Sapphire HD3870 512Mb
Logitech MX Revolution mouse, G-15 keyboard, Saitek X-45 AeroEngine II case
Corsair HX620W PSU

Amanda

If the ram would be incompatible wouldn't the pc just not start up to begin with?
I have to admit that I don't know that much from pc's, just how to put them together and how to install them so I could be wrong.

It looks like my fiance's pc has the same as mine so I'll check if I still have the problem then.

I just put it in and I'll just keep it in untill he gets home from work to see if I still get errors.

Amanda

I put my fiance's ram back in when we went to bed and I still got the same errors during the night. Especially "Warning
Event ID : 57
Source : ftdisk
Description : The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur." came by a lot.
So it looks like it's not the RAM.
The downloads are also still corrupt, even when I switch RAM.
I haven't tried increasing the voltage yet because I've never felt very confident working in the BIOS. But it's the voltage going to the RAM that has to be increased right?