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[Eochaid]

 Hi guys,

I've been having some problems with my computer... I seen unable to download anything!

Over the past few days I've been trying to update my Java & Flash player and after a few seconds I'm told that the file is corrupt.

It's does that to EVERYTHING I try to download.

All the downloads are legal, I've disabled my firewall, nothing. All the videos I try to watch have these huge pixels and all the flash stuff is blacked...

Any thoughts?

Kevin

PS: a lot of internet pages aren't displayed properly, with either fucked-up text replacing icons or all elements thrown together in one corner 

[ehrie]

Your hard drive is full. Take it out and grind down the data inside with a hammer. This will compress your files and thus give you more hard drive space.

[Ed Anger]

Virus scan that baby and run a malware scanner.

[Eochaid]

Your hard drive is full. Take it out and grind down the data inside with a hammer. This will compress your files and thus give you more hard drive space.

I have 2TBs of free space

Virus scan that baby and run a malware scanner.

Already did that. Neither Spyware Doctor nor AVG found anything.

Kevin

[Scipio]

Sounds like your HD is totally boned.

[Lucidor]

Have you tried changing the download directory, so it's not some sort of restricted rights directory?

[Lucidor]

It may not be it, but at first my computer acted all funny on me, and it turned out to be a malfunctioning RAM. I've had some RAM fail two years after that and just got replacements.

If you feel adventurous, try taking out a stick of RAM at a time and see if it solves anything. (After disconnecting the power, that is)

[Eochaid]

The PC is brand new (less than a month old)

I'll try the directory thing

Kevin

[Scipio]

It may not be it, but at first my computer acted all funny on me, and it turned out to be a malfunctioning RAM. I've had some RAM fail two years after that and just got replacements.

If you feel adventurous, try taking out a stick of RAM at a time and see if it solves anything. (After disconnecting the power, that is)

Good idea.

Bad RAM can multi-ficky-fick your puter hardcore.

[Grey Fox]

Ram.

[PDH]

Ice cream.

[Eochaid]

 Let's pretend for a second that I know jack about this kind of shit... 

How would RAM affect the fact that I can't download shit?

I have 4GB of RAM (I can only use 3GB because I'm using XP).

Kevin

EDIT: instead of actually removing my RAM sticks, can I use Windows Memory Diagnostic?

[Josquius]

Defragging couldn't do any harm. May not solve it but worth a try, could be fragmented to hell?

[Eochaid]

Defragging couldn't do any harm. May not solve it but worth a try, could be fragmented to hell?

My 2*1TB HDs are divided in 8*250 GB partitions (1 system, 1 docs, 2 games, 4 vids & assorted)

I don't see why a defrag would do anything... 

KEvin

[Grey Fox]

Power down, open the case, remove 1 stick of ram, power up, Download something, see if it works. Try the other stick if it is still not solve.

Data goes trhu your RAM before the HDD, if it gets corrupted in ram, won't work.