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Corrupt File Problem

post #1 of 14
8/7/05 at 11:34pm
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Hey whats up guys. I"m the noob AW 7700 area-51 notebook. I am having some problems with corrupt files. It seems everytime I download something, it ends up needing reinstalled the next day. This has happened 5 times with FFXI already. I've only had the notebook for 5 days now. I can play the game all day, but when I log off and try to log back on, it tells me corrupt files. I am also having a problem with Yahoo messenger. It just shuts down on me no matter what I do. I have reinstalled it several times and always the same thing. Think it could be a faulty HDD or is there something else I can check? Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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post #2 of 14
8/8/05 at 3:21pm
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Well I didn't get a single reply..guess I either stumped you all or nobody just wanted to help hehe. Either way...I fixed the problem. The AlienWare GUI causes problems and conflicts with alot of software. Especially FFXI. It causes inproper logouts which corrupt files. Also Yahoo doesn't function 100% with it. Thanks all.
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post #3 of 14
8/8/05 at 5:17pm
you re-format your system, to remove any chance that you have faulty software creating faulty software.
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post #4 of 14
8/9/05 at 5:11pm
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I did that. I had the same problem however since the GUI was one of the first things I downloaded again after the reinstall. Had the same problems. I removed the GUI and now everything functions as it should.
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post #5 of 14
8/9/05 at 5:30pm
okay good deal.
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post #6 of 14
8/10/05 at 10:43am
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Well...looks like I'm wrong again. Sorry for wrongfully accusing the GUI. I'm still having corrupt files after the windows reinstall and everything. Both FFXI and Doom3 error out everytime I play them. Any ideas?
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post #7 of 14
8/10/05 at 11:50am
Have you run scandisk or some other disk error checking?

Are you sure you don't have a virus?

-Mark
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post #8 of 14
8/10/05 at 11:59am
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Absolutely sure I don't have a virus. I've only had it hooked up to the net one day hehe. Haven't even surfed on it yet really. I did a scan disk and it shows no bad sectors. However when we did a windows repair, it showed to unretrievable files in windows...thats when we reinstalled. I'm sure if I did the repair again it would have the same results. I'm actually leaning towards a faulty HDD at the moment myself. I have to call AW and have them run me through a couple more tests to verify I think.
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post #9 of 14
8/10/05 at 12:48pm
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Originally Posted by ehandlr
Absolutely sure I don't have a virus. I've only had it hooked up to the net one day hehe. Haven't even surfed on it yet really. I did a scan disk and it shows no bad sectors. However when we did a windows repair, it showed to unretrievable files in windows...thats when we reinstalled. I'm sure if I did the repair again it would have the same results. I'm actually leaning towards a faulty HDD at the moment myself. I have to call AW and have them run me through a couple more tests to verify I think.
Dude, check out this tool from O&O. It's more thorough than Scandisk.
http://www.oo-software.com/en/products/oodriveled/
BTW, their defrag tool is the biz. Gotta love that German efficiency.
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post #10 of 14
8/10/05 at 2:19pm
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Thanks...I'll try it as soon as I get home.
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post #11 of 14
8/11/05 at 3:07pm
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Update: AW is now mailing me a new HDD. More unrepairable files during a repair through the windows CD. Then a blue screen doing a Scan Disk. gotta wait for that to come in and start over. Thanks.
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post #12 of 14
8/11/05 at 4:10pm
yeah I was going to say, it looks like a bad HDD. Hopefully you'll have more luck with that one instead
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post #13 of 14
8/13/05 at 10:48am
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Turns out..not a bad HDD. New HDD is doing the same thing. On to testing memory now. But I have 4 sticks..so I gotta test them all individually.
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post #14 of 14
8/17/05 at 5:26pm
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hrmmm all 4 sticks of ram are good according to the Windows Memory Diagnostic....We flashed the bios and it was successful so the motherboard seems to be good. I had to mail my laptop back to AW. They don't know whats wrong with it.
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