" AA Smith" wrote in message
...
Since I received from Microsoft and installed a replacement WinXP Pro SP2
installation CD a few weeks/months ago, various applications on the
computer
keep reporting corrupted files. These applications include, but may not
be
limited to, Windows Media Player 10 and Intuit's Quicken 2003.
I have run ScanDisk several times. However, it never reports any problems
with my hard drive. I have even reinstalled WinXP Pro SP2 several times
in
Repair mode. Most recently, I even let Windows Setup format my C: drive
before installing a fresh copy of WinXP Pro SP2.
However, the corrupted files keep occurring.
Yesterday evening, I used Intuit's Quicken 2003 to record expenses, etc.
It
ran then without a problem. Yet, this morning when I started Quicken, it
would not accept the correct password for my accounting files--the same
password that I've used for many years.
A short while later, I started Windows Media Player 10. It promptly
informed me that my audio library was corrupted. This has happened at
least
3 times in the past 6 weeks. In each case, I directed WMP 10 to search
out
all of my music and restore it to the library. That worked fine. For
now.
That is, until the next time the library gets corrupted.
The hard disk on this computer is a 120gb Western Digital 7200 Caviar
Drive,
which has always worked properly. The motherboard is an ASUS P3V4X and
the
processor is an INTEL 450 MHz SLOT-1 device. I had an INTEL 733 MHz
processor installed several years earlier, but WinXP Pro SP2 issued a few
messages
(details of which I do not entirely recall insinuating that the 733 MHz
processor was not running at the correct speed for my motherboard. That
was
not true. I don't over clock. It was always running at the same speed
(733MHz)
that it had on this same motherboard for the past 2 or 3 years.
Nevertheless, I
switched out the processor a week or so ago when I installed the 450MHz
processor.
Incidentally, I do not routinely receive e-mail on this computer, so I
really don't suspect a virus may be causing the problem/s.
I shall greatly appreciate the benefit of your thoughts and suggestions on
this.
--
With kindest regards,
Dick Smith
My first thought is that you have a memory problem. Download the following
memory test program and give it a whirl...
http://www.memtest.org/
If your files are not actually being corrupted and are just being reported
as corrupted on occassion, then I would suspect timing settings in the BIOS
or on the motherboard. If the memory checks out, go into your BIOS and set
it to Factory Defaults. If you don't want to set it to factory defaults, at
least take all memory/chipset speed settings out of FAST modes and into
NORMAL or SAFEST settings.
Good Luck,
Carl