Dell Pentium D install issues

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A semi general one this...

I have a new workstation, the office is still on windows 2000 but preping up to migrate to 64 bit when 3DS max goes 64. There is a generla issue with the machine, it was bought with no OS from euroPC, bought many precisions from them in the past, some with OS's wome without, never a problem.. yet. This one took about 10 go's to get it to finally load up windows2000. The problem was the onboard RAID I enabled it but the locked BIOS registered a change in the system memory and it would go no further. Lots fo searching and I resolved that. Also took case apparnt and systematically went through each component part, unplugged, cleaned and plugged back in again.

 

Fresh copy of Windows 2000 SP4 now installed, 3DS Max and Final render running a few benchmark renders and its goes fine...

 

problems being to occur installing acrobat keeps picking up corrupted file during the install. check file intergrity on other slave machiens installs ok.. move file from network to harddrives and try.. no joy, still corruptions picked up. Now, firefox is doing similar things, and the frequency of where the files stop during installation varies sometimes. now concerned... windows service pack 4 rollout 1 will not load either.. same issues reading a corruption although this runs fine one all the slave machines with identical OS.

 

So, check for updates to Dell bios. was on A02, upgraded to A06. Logos changed but still not difference. Assuming the chipset maybe the cause with the older OS, but it ran fine for the HT machines I have... Also ran diagonotics on the HD's which all pass. They are just running seperately no RAID.

 

machine specs...

 

Dell Precision 380 Pentium D 3.0 Ghz

2Gb RAM (samsung) (5x512)

2x SATA 80Gb WD raptors 10k

1x quadro 1400 PCIe

onboard usb, network and sound

dual TFT's

peripheries all USB.

Windows 2K SP4

 

perplexed here... online installs vary some install some do not. I feel there is something fundamental wrong here any suggestions or route causes of action? I get the feeling it might be the processor...