Lately my TV shows have been downloading mostly fine, often though I will need PARS to repair them. They extract fine and play fine. However there are occasional moments during the show or movie where the screen pixelates like as if the download wasn't complete correctly. Today I managed to resolve this issue by extracting the show again using WinRar rather than using the version sabnzbd gave me. The problem was not there this time.
This leads me to believe either sabnzbd's extraction process is at fault or I have bad ram that caused the issue during extraction. It could possibly be a dodgy hard drive or sata cable though right?
Thing is I've ran Memtest scans and came back clean (admittedly I only ran it for a couple of hours.) So I'm not really sure what truly is at fault. I do occasionally get blue screens of death, which would also indicate bad ram right?
What else should I test to help get to the bottom of this problem?
File corrupt after extraction, bad ram?
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Re: File corrupt after extraction, bad ram?
Occasional bluescreens are always suspect, but not necessarily due to bad RAM.
Unpacking is done by unrar from the makers of WinRAR, SABnzbd doesn't do any unpacking on its own.
If you have varying results unpacking the same RAR files, I would start suspecting the RAM.
Unpacking is done by unrar from the makers of WinRAR, SABnzbd doesn't do any unpacking on its own.
If you have varying results unpacking the same RAR files, I would start suspecting the RAM.