I just cant figure this out

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I thought I would start here on this....

first off, I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit, on a custom built system, a Asus M2N MX SE-Plus mobo, AMD dual core processor, and a PNY 86'' GT PCI x16 card, dont really think the rest of the specs are much of a factor...

Okay, so i use several types of camera's, mainly a nikon d4' and a olympus e-5'', regardless of the camera i have the same issue, when i import ( no matter how i do it, from card, or if i transfer the card contents to my HD then import), about 3'% of my pictures have end of file errors, and as well, have horizontal lines of garbled pixels, usually rainbow coloured lines about 1 cm or more across the photo's, the end of file ones are usually half garbled, usually bottom half all being garbeled, or the picture looks like someone cut it into 4 peices, and moved the pieces around. At first i thought it was my olympus, then i tried the nikon, same issue, then i thought it was one of my cf or sd cards, nope. then i thought it was the card reader, works fine on my other 3 pc's, basically what i have to do is import, inspect each one, delete the crap, reimport the ones i lost, inspect, delete the crap, so on and so forth untill ALL are fine, i am totally at lost for what is the issue, the card reader works flawlessly on all other pc's, same as the cards, and the camera's. tried all my usb ports, including a hub i use all the time, still the same issue....
 
Are any of the card SDHC and is your card reader SDHC compatible? I discovered the problem was my SD card reader on an older system and before lightroom. Getting a USB 2.' SDHC card reader solved that problem. I don't know if there are similar high capacity issues with CF cards.

What was happening for me was very similar to your problem. the system would read the card but would error out on some of the files.
 
i thought of that, but why would it work on onther machines, only error-ing on this one in particular? the card i first noticed this one was used for 12 months before any real issues were noticed, i always format my cards in the camera before use.
 
Hi Marius, welcome to the forum!

What you're describing is file corruption. There's all sorts of things that can cause that, usually hardware based. Damaged cards and card readers are usually first port of call. Then things like dying hard drive, dodgy stick of RAM, motherboard, hard drive connection, various different things. I'd probably run memtest as a next thing to try.
 
hmmm. built the machine myself, and i am a technician, but will run a assortment of hardware checking softwares. will update thread soon on results
 
I would try trashing the USB device driver and reinstalling. Or rolling it back, perhaps?
 
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