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16 years ago

Install fails silently - Quartus & ModelSim on Windows 7 64x bit

I was wondering if anybody could help figure out what is wrong. I've downloaded Quartus (91_quartus_free.exe) twice, and Model Sim (91_modelsim_ase_windows.exe) once and they don't seem to wor...
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16 years ago

Thanks Kev that was spot on, I checked the MD5 hashes and they were off for all the files.

Opening in WinHex revealed that the EXE header is fine, but about 1/3rd into each file is full of nulls (0x00) going all the way to the end of file.

I downloaded using MetaProducts Download Accelorator on another machine, which must have been where the error was introduced.

I'm downloading now just using Firefox nativly. That will probably work, but I live in Australia so it'll be hours before I know!

Thanks Kev!