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All downloads corrupt. Help!

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  • Corrupt downloads
  • Networking
  • Windows XP
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October 6, 2014 5:40:55 AM

Hi,

I'm baffled by this problem. Almost any large file I download is corrupted at some stage. It can be seen with photos, too. This is only with 1 PC on my LAN, the others work fine.

I also get frequent errors when using VNC from this computer which I don't get from the others.

Things I have tried:

Changing cables
2 onboard NIC
Deleting and reinstalling chipset drivers
A PCI NIC
Reinstalling winsock
Resetting TCP stack

I don't think (I hope) that the LAN file transfers are corrupting data.

I can't think of anything else I can do to fix this. It's becoming a real issue for me.

I'm on XP SP3 32 bit. The downloads corrupt whether I'm using FF or IE.

Any suggestions much appreciated!

Thanks.

/also tried deactiving AV
/also ran memtest to check RAM and Seagate tools to check hard disk

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October 6, 2014 6:29:04 AM

Have you run an AV scan for malware?

You might also check for signal quality from your gateway to the ISP, if it's Uverse or DSL there could be a bridge tap on the line that creates a reflection point, which trashes digital signals. (Bridge taps didn't bother old analog signals.)

It's also highly advised to move to a newer OS as soon as you can, as XP has been end of support for almost 6 months. I would recommend Win7 if you have at least 4GB of RAM. There are also a number of Linux distros that are extremely user friendly, like Ubuntu.
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