re: corrupt cab files ?
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 5:41 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by JasperT2
(28 messages posted)
I agree with C_K: If you are getting corrupted files from several different drives
and sources then you are most likely dealing with a bad peice of hardware, be it
memory, chipset or other. Drivers will not be the fix - Windows 98se will load with
the barest essentials (BIOS) and then load the drivers later. The quickest thing
to try is to re-seat all the connections - Memory, cables CPU etc. Secondly - check
for a BIOS update: Along the drivers thinking... could be a corrupted BIOS.
On Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 3:08 pm, greg wrote:
>I have a strange problem.
>I am trying to install windows 98 on a newly formated hard drive This is on a Toshiba
>Tecra 8100 500mhz with
>64mb ram laptop and 10gb hard drive
>I got it used and it came with xp which was working fine
>untill I tried to install acrobat reader and I was getting
>corrupt cab error.
>Since I did not have an xp cd I formated the hard drive
>and tried to install windows 98 but I got stoped right at the begining with a corrupt
>setup cab file I tried to narrow down the problem and eliminated some of the ones
>already discussed here
>I copied the files to a partition that I made on the hard drive and tried to install
>from there in order to eliminate the cd but I have the same problem. I also tried
>loading
>other programs from different cd's with similar corrupt
>cab errors I also tried different linux version but they all had different errors.
>I also bought another larger 30mb hard drive and I still have the same problem
>I am trying to extract the files manually but I can only extract a couple of files
>before I get a corrupt cab error
>I am running out of things I can try.
>I was wondering if anyone came across this strange problem on a pc or especially
>on a laptop
>I ran scandisk many times without any errors
>This situation only leaves the memory or the motherboard combination.
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- corrupt cab files ? (greg: Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 3:08 pm)
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