For some reason my computer is been freezing lately, wow is lagging like crazy and counter strike just froze after a while of playing. I tried many Registry cleaners, scan my computer for virus, spyware, malware.I have defrag my computer, update everything. I checked over heating and dust seems fine plus i put my fan at its fastest pace so it wont over heat. This started to happen like a week ago. Here a list of software I use to scaning for anything.I think is hardware failure or something to do with my power supply.
Zone Alarm Extreme security my firewall/ anti virus/ anti spyware
Advance system care pro Registry cleaner/anti spyware/cleaner
Malwarebytes anti malware

As of two months ago nearly all the rar files (r01,r02,r03,etc) I download that are between 40mb-100mb never extract properly.
These are the error messages I get

With 7z – "CRC failed in ‘name of file’. File is broken"
With Winrar – "Packed data CRC failed in ‘name of file’. The volume is corrupt" with WinRAR (tried several versions)

Now I know you can set winrar to ignore the message and continue. But I need to know, is this due to some sort of hardware failure?
I ran memtest 86+ for 14 hours with no errors. Possibly my harddrive is going? (despite not finding any errors with hd diagnostic software)

So then I decided to move the exact same files over to my old computer. They extract perfectly. So its obviously not caused by the download source.

The strange thing is I can extract 1gig rar files perfectly. But if the 1 gig extracts into smaller rar files I cannot extract those.

I already replaced the RAM with new memory. To no avail.

If this helps my specs are :
Windows 7 operating system (tried it on my dual-boot Windows XP SP3 as well)
ASUS Striker Extreme motherboard
8 Gigs Crucial Ballistix DDR2
500gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drive
1tb Western Digital external drive
ATI Radeon 2900xt graphics card

Oh, and i’ve formatted my harddrive twice since these errors. I’m hoping its something as cheap as replacing the CMOS battery.
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Solidus – I know the files aren’t corrupt due to the download itself because the exact same files extract perfect when I move them to a different computer.
Oh and i’ve tried re-downloading. No luck.

Hello there I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop running on a upgrade from windows XP to Windows Vista Premminum. I have been running this version for some time now and nothing has happend in which I can not fix myself.. I have recently come accross a problume that brings me up to Windows Boot Manager. I will read exactly what it says and how it says it.

Windows Boot Manager
Windows faild to start. A recent hardware of software change might be the cause. To fix the problume:

1. Insert your windows installation disk and restart your computer.
2. Choose your language settings, and then click "next"
3. Click "Repair your computer."

If you do not have this disk, Contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.
File: \windows\SYSTEM32\Drivers\SSHRMD.SYS

Status: 0xc0000098

Info: Windows failed to load because a critical system driver is missing or corrupt.

Thats when it ends. Now I know it tells me how to fix it but I have a problume.. When it tells me a critical system driver is missing or corrupt… dosn’t that mean its hardware failure or something like that and even if I put the disk in if im having hardware failure it wont work…

Also im concerned with what might have caused this problume. I know before the crash. I had gone onto Trend Micro 2008 anti viruse and it said a few things about windows changes and said that they were high so I changed them back. So im thinking when I changed them thats what happend… I know I might not be making a whole lot of sence but yeah im kinda confussed I have never seen this before….

So guys if you can help me out I will offer alot of points for it and if it is possable to instant message me at Musiclvrkd
That is an aim account so if you want to email me at that too it would be much appreciated. I dont go on yahoo answeres so I am more likly to get my responce if you give it that way thanks very much

I have to turn my computer on and off at least a half dozen times before I can get to my desktop. Usually about 3 times before I get the screen telling me that windows was shut down abnormally and giving me several other starting options. At this point, I choose safe mode and sometimes it frreezes midway through loading the drivers and always freezes after loading all the drivers.
With every cycle, the process goes just a little farther with safe mode finally loading or sometimes, I try to let windows start normally with that working as well.
No matter what, whenever I get to a point where I can restart the computer, it's fine from there on. Never any problem on restart. Might I be experiencing some sort of hardware failure?