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[quote=ultimangex]What do you suggest I do ?

Check anything? Disable anything?[/quote]
One thing would be to call the ISP and have them remotely examine the logs in your broadband modem/router and see if there are a lot of "retransmits" logged, or anything else that would indicate reliability problems with your connection.

Something is garbling the files you're trying to download at your home location that's not garbling them when you download somewhere else.
If they discover a problem that way they should either fix the wiring or replace the modem.

I don't remember from the earlier discussion if you ever tried plugging the router directly into the computer and downloading that way to see if eliminating the wireless link between your computer and the router would help. (That's another possible problem area that would be different between downloading at home and downloading somewhere else, although it's not likely to be the cause.) If you haven't already tried that, it would be good to do, just to eliminate the wifi connection as the problem.

[quote=BobR]Are the computers you use to download the files successfully located somewhere else..?
That is, are you using a different Internet connection when you download the good files than when you're (I assume) at home..?

If the files you download elsewhere copy, install and run successfully on your computer, that eliminates the RAM, hard drive, hard drive cables, power supply and motherboard as possible causes because the files have to use the same hardware the "bad" files use. If any of those components were bad, it would affect the "good" files as well.

Sounds to me like the only difference is the Internet connection at your house.

That would include:
- the wiring leading up to your house from the ISP/phone company/cable company
- the broadband modem
- the router (if the router is separate from the modem)

The fact that the Internet connection needed to be "fixed" before is suspicious.

(Is this a continuation of an older problem/thread..? Sounds pretty familiar.)

Edit- yeah, Google says your PSU was making a sound when the computer was turned off and the computer is unstable.
There are too many problems going on all at the same time- any of this could be affecting everything else.[/quote]

What do you suggest I do ?

Check anything? Disable anything?

[quote=ultimangex]- The files work on other computers, so i have to download there and install here.
- further info that it isn't my internet is because I called my ISP and they came and "fixed it"
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Are the computers you use to download the files successfully located somewhere else..?
That is, are you using a different Internet connection when you download the good files than when you're (I assume) at home..?

If the files you download elsewhere copy, install and run successfully on your computer, that eliminates the RAM, hard drive, hard drive cables, power supply and motherboard as possible causes because the files have to use the same hardware the "bad" files use. If any of those components were bad, it would affect the "good" files as well.

Sounds to me like the only difference is the Internet connection at your house.

That would include:
- the wiring leading up to your house from the ISP/phone company/cable company
- the broadband modem
- the router (if the router is separate from the modem)

The fact that the Internet connection needed to be "fixed" before is suspicious.

(Is this a continuation of an older problem/thread..? Sounds pretty familiar.)

Edit- yeah, Google says your PSU was making a sound when the computer was turned off and the computer is unstable.
There are too many problems going on all at the same time- any of this could be affecting everything else.