Checksum error

RAM related, How much RAM are you running?

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Because each disk you're loading could hold a maximum of 700Mb, and the amount of RAM you're running could affect that kind of thing, especially if you have a limited page file, even though you're running 256Mb of RAM, you don't have 256Mb of RAM available to you, other programs are using resources in the background, just for your computer to operate, Win9X systems operate wonderfully on 512Mb of RAM, but no more than 512Mb or trouble arises in the other direction.

My total suggestion is to increase your RAM to 512Mb to avoid these kind of problems in the future, but a workaround would be to use the Task Manager and End Task on every running program except,(Explorer and Systray because if you end task on them your computer will shut down), and make sure you haven't limited the size of your page file.

That my friend is how my question was relevent.

4ryan6, Over and Out!




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The bottomline here is that the Checksum Error means that from the time you put the CD disk in the CDROM drive to the time the files were accounted for on the hardrive something is missing or corrupted.

There are many things that could cause this to happen, but it usually involves a process of elimination to track down the problem, its not simply heres your problem, even OP/SYS's handle the situation differently, but you haven't even specified what OP/SYS you're running, and you seem to want to analyse the advice you're getting instead of using it. So heres just a few things of what could possibly be wrong:

Bad scratch on CD,
Corrupted file on CD itself,
Dirty CDROM lens,
Faulty CDROM drive,
CDROM drivers need updating,
RAM errors,
Power glitch,
Bad sectors of the hardrive,

Sometimes Checksum Errors are RAM related.

How could that be???

You put the CD in the CDROM drive, the CDROM drive starts reading the CD and sending the information to the hardrive, but it goes through the CPU and RAM working together to send the information to the hardrive, If the CD itself is good, and the CDROM drive is functioning properly, but the files are corrupted by the time they arrive at the hardrive, 90% of the time memory errors are the problem.

Use Memtest86 to check your RAM for errors, you can get it here<A HREF="http://www.bootdisk.com" target="_new">http://www.bootdisk.com</A>

Also you can disable the read ahead feature on the CDROM drive.

Run a thorough Scandisk to check for bad sectors on the Hardrive.

Now if you're going to disregard my attempts to try and help you, you can resolve this issue yourself,<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?InCC_hdn=true&Catalog=LCID=1033&CDID=EN-US-KB&PRODLISTSRC=ON&withinResults=&QuerySource=gASr_Query&Product=msall&Queryc=Checksum+Error&Query=Checksum+Error&KeywordType=ALL&maxResults=25&Titles=false&numDays=&InCC=on" target="_new">You can start here!</A>
Have a nice day
Goodbye!!!


<A HREF="http://forums.btvillarin.com/index.php?act=ST&f=41&t=2541" target="_new">My Rig</A><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by 4ryan6 on 01/27/04 03:28 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

The reason for this error is most likely a faulty CD: a checksum is a number, which is created from the binary data of a file. In this case the setup prgram creates a checksum of the data copied to the harddrive and compares it w/ a checksum which is saved on the CD and was created from the original data. When they are not identical it aborts w/ this error message. This means, that the data on your harddriove is not identical w/ the origianal data. The reason for this is most likely a faulty CD. Sure the error can also be caused by an error copying the data to the harddrive, which can be caused by an faulty harddrive or RAM, but in when such an error always occurs on the same CD and it never occured when you insdtalled a different program most likely the CD is faulty.

There is a good way to find out, if the CD is faulty: try to install the program on a different PC. If it the error occurs again, to 99,9% the CD is faulty. If it doesnt occur on the other system, your PC is causing the error.

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