Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!silver!ntaib From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: 386: Packed File Corrupt error Message-ID: <1991Mar5.022840.15926@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 5 Mar 91 02:28:40 GMT References: Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Distribution: usa Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 22 >I just upgraded from a 286 clone to a 386-33 clone. Norton 5.0 Unerase >and Pathminder both now give me the error "Packed File Corrupt" when >I attempt to execute them. I have DOS 4.01. These programs still >run fine on my wife's 286. Does anyone know what is going on? I >have throttled back to 16Mhz and turned off cacheing, all to no avail. I came across this error message two years ago with WordPerfect 5.0 and a (extensively added to) IBM XT. It turned out to be massive memory chip failure. The "packed file" is a file created in RAM as the program loads. It is this file which actually executes. As the RAM had bad spots in it, the file created was corrupt. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala Internet: NTAIB@AQUA.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------