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Can't Install Programs - Nearly All Exit With Errors

  • 25-02-2006 2:57am
    #1
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,001 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I've just set up a new machine as of today. It's an Athlon 64 X2 running on an ABit K98 SLI motherboard. There's a 1GB of RAM.

    Installed Windows without a bother and the various drivers. However, when I come to download and run a program off the Web, I get various "data errors" depending on the application installed. Thus I couldn't install "Firefox" without a 7-Zip error, I couldn't install MSN Messenger without getting an "Extracting file failed" error. The downloads can't be corrupted as I got them from the official sites in all cases (and the only applicatin I did get to work from a download was Opera).

    The OS is XP Pro with SP1. Is there any possible reason this is happening? Needless to say, a PC that won't let me install properly is pretty pointless.


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  • #2
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    Download and verify (md5) sum,tbh. it could be the connection...

    Can you install from CD?
    Please post the exact errors of one or two (Screenshots)


  • #3
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    Sounds very like the NAM [Network Access manager] corruption problem with NVIDIA chipsets, when you download data over the built in ethernet link that makes use of the NAM/active armour [firewall] it corrupts the data.

    There are some workaround and fixes I believe one workaround is to disable checksum offloading in the network cards driver properties.

    As for the fixes well I didn't really follow this issue as I never used the NAM [and if you're not then I'm stumped as to what this could be] but make sure you have the following things & you should be okay after that.
    latest bios
    SP2 installed
    nForce 6.70 drivers


  • #4
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,001 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    8T8 wrote:
    Sounds very like the NAM [Network Access manager] corruption problem with NVIDIA chipsets, when you download data over the built in ethernet link that makes use of the NAM/active armour [firewall] it corrupts the data.

    There are some workaround and fixes I believe one workaround is to disable checksum offloading in the network cards driver properties.
    Well I dunno if that fixed the problem, but it certainly seemed to help. I've managed to install FireFox, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Java 1.4.2JRE, Azureus, and a couple of other things since with none of the corruption problems that I was getting before. Fingers crossed that it works!


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