Corrupt files every time I try installing something

[ThatHotGamer]

So I recently came back from a vacation. My PC was untouched for about 20 days. When I came back home I cleaned and booted it but ran into some serious issues. Whenever I try installing anything I get an error saying that the setup has failed because the files are corrupt. I have tried installing games such as sunless sea, stalker (which are both bought from GOG) and Fortnite. They have all failed. I ran Windows memory diagnostic tool and it came up clean. I have windows 7 64-bit. What do I do?

 

[smorizio]

check that your ram is still locked in. if it an intel system run the intel cpu test to make sure the cpu cache is good. run memtest86 from a usb stick over night. run hard drive vendor tests tools.

 

[ThatHotGamer]

check that your ram is still locked in. if it an intel system run the intel cpu test to make sure the cpu cache is good. run memtest86 from a usb stick over night. run hard drive vendor tests tools.

Did all of that, still getting the same problem.

 

[gamerk316]

From my experience, corruption when installing programs is generally a sign of bad RAM. or a failing HDD.

Even if memtest86 isn't picking up a failure doesn't mean one doesn't exist. I would recommend removing RAM and trying to install a few programs with one stick at a time, and see if you can isolate the problem to any specific stick of RAM. If the problems occur with each individual stick, then I'd start to suspect the HDD.