Problem with Acer Extensa 5420 corruption files

Dear all member,
I have problem with my acer Extensa. It corrupts the files especially .rar parts, when I try to extract it says to ...the file maybe corrupt...

Another thing is that sometimes it crashes especially with fireworks and some other programs. It dispalyes to me the END NOW message. Not blue screen.!!

I thougt it would be a HDD problem, I cleared it with DoD methods, but nothing happened. After that I replaced the HDD 160 GB with a new one but again the same problem occurred.

Could anyone help me please. I don't know what to do now.

Thanks for All

 

Which OS are using..?? Did you reinstall windows on the new HDD using a recovery disk..??

 

First I used Win vista, it appears blue screen always, after that I put it on XP SP2, with XP something light but not reliable. all errors I specified above has occurred.
I said that I used a new HDD without recovery discs, and it doesnt seems to be a HDD problem or a software (windows or drivers ) problem!

 

In XP, go into Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer > Windows Logs > And check for error logs in both application and system. If the errors are driver-related update or roll back to previous versions....
Extensa 5420 drivers - Euro & Panam
Have you patched upto the latest SP, updates, etc..?? If not, do so.

 

Andy, I had 2 of the same acer before, And i put the same driver and windows, I installed latest XP PRO with SP3. Nothing, just the same problem, as I have seen it doesnt seem to be a HDD problem because I changed 2 HDD-s, tried all of version of windows.

But, is it any possibilities to have a virus in IDE cable or in RAM???

regards!

 

How large are your partitions , and what file system ?

 

I don't think so, never heard of a hardware virus !

Best to check the Windows Logs for errors.

 

2 partitions with 60 and 90 GB but i tried and 160 GB in one place. Again the same problem!

 

Well first of all .

You can not make any FAT 32 file system larger than 120GB .

And there is no way to run over 40GB FAT32 partition , with out XP SP1 at list .

 

Budy, I'm using NTFS, not FAT32

 

Budy , you look that you need one good real computer expert .

Your understanding about computers looks to be very low.

Or else you will had answer my question about the file system at the first place.

Even that way ... i suspect that you have a non legal XP version , and you can not install SP1 .

Thats why you do not have support for large hard drives.

 

Check you ram rar file are realy picky about bad memory

 

I have installed original and non original windows. (about 7 different kind of)

thankyou for you help, but I think you didnt understand the question very well!

 

"andyasselin" thank you very much for you suggestion, because it was very very helpful.
It took effect. and problem resolved. I changed both of 2 x 1 GB RAMs abd replaced with 1.5 GB RAMs, now everything is OK. and works perfect.

All that I have to do now is to check if the RAMs I replaced are both that corrupts files.

Again, I appreciate your help!

Regards, Liridon