I've updated a few drivers on my friends PC (he doesnt know what a driver is) as some stuff was broken and the drivers were about a year old on it. Now with the newer drivers I keep getting data corruption when downloading stuff off the Internet ... any new files downloaded especially executables are corrupt. Jpg's dont download properly either and seem corrupted.

Is there any trick to these things? I've spent the whole damn morning trying to fix this, been using the 6.86_nforce_win2kxp_international_whql drivers. There seem to be a lot of posts online about this issue and everyone seems to have a different fix from not using the nvidia drivers, blaming seagate SATA hard drives, NCQ not working properly to faulty network cards. The network card is out of the question though as I've tried 2 wireless cards now and they all do the same thing.

So the last thing I am trying is to install the nvidia IDE drivers and disable NCQ on it after this I'm giving up just gonna tell him to throw it in the ocean and get a intel system lol :(


please help :/

just to add a bit more info here is the list of components in the system (system is not overclocked):

a64 3000+ venice
asus a8n-sli
xfx gt6600
2 x Corsair CMX512-3200C2
Seagate ST3160827AS
Antec Truepower 480W PSU

does it do the same thing off a Knoppix or Windows live cd?

I've got the same board, I only ever update drivers and the bios when I first set up the machine, my rule is if it ain't broke, don't fix it, can you go back to older drivers? like the next to latest nvidia ones?

problems only just started since installing the new drivers?

Cause you said "some stuff was broken" seeming to imply his system was f***ed up to begin with.

i think i've finally fixed the damn thing!

he mainly had problems with bf2, havent played it in a while and didnt realise that 1.3 patch was messed up not the drivers themselves

so anyway what I suspect cause the problems from what I've read was using the nvidia IDE drivers (probably incompatible with the motherboard) or the nv firewall application that a lot of people have complained about being broken, anyway all's good now, thanks for your help guys

the nv firewall/networking manager is pure pure anus

my recommendation would be to never install it/uninstall it :P

is it the deluxe or the premium?

the deluxe is plagued by problems

Set active armor to non-offloadable.

It's the SATA controller.

I have the exact same problem with my WD SATAII drives with NF4 chipset. Had to switch them to SATAI to avoid the data corruption.

that was pretty damn frustrating lol ... in the end it turned out with be the setpoint 2.6 logitech software package for his g7 mouse, updated to the latest version and all problems disapeared. it was not any of the system drivers even though there's a lot of whinge about them on the web :/