That's not good. Sounds like you might have memory problems in that thing. All it is doing at that phase is unzipping the installer.
If the Venue came with built-in "trialware" Security Software (such as McAfee or something), try disabling it, and if that doesn't help, completely uninstalling it. That's my only other guess at anything "software-conflict" like that could cause such a thing. Sometimes disabling these AV applications isn't enough. If you got a bundled free trial with your device, that's no big deal. If you want it, just re-download the trial from the vendor of the software, and you can re-install it when you are done.
However, Windows now comes with both a built-in Firewall and a good AV solution, called Windows Defender. Windows Defender is well-behaved (it wouldn't cause these kinds of problems at all), built-in, from Microsoft (so well supported), and free. You probably don't need whatever cruddy pack-in software they provided.
Here are Hashes for the most recent public build of the MC installer (19.0.121):
CRC32: 85540E58
MD5: 5017E1344A7EEAC47794BE76A644938A
SHA-1: 80D403B99AA68C62DE5C78C70B01C747C4A29A55If you
know how to check the file hashes of the installer, you can verify that these match. If they don't then something is corrupting it during download or when loaded into RAM.
If removing the AV software doesn't work (or if you're currently using only Windows Defender), I'd try these three items:
1.
Download Memtest86+ (the USB Key creator version) and make a USB key. If at all possible, make this USB key using another computer (if the RAM is bad in that device and causing corruption, then it could corrupt Memtest86+ when you try to make the USB key).
Boot to the USB key after you make it, and run through a full scan of your RAM. You may need to look up how to do this with your Venue, since it won't have a "normal" BIOS procedure. I'm sure there are instructions somewhere on Dell's website.
If the RAM fails, RMA the device with Dell.
2. Check the disk on the device for trouble. It is a flash-based "drive" so you shouldn't need to worry about the disk physically failing (assuming you didn't get a broken controller or NAND chips or something), but the drive could have filesystem corruption.
More info:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Troubleshooting_DisksIn particular, run both the
chkdsk and
sfc /scannow tools described on that page. Don't do this until after you've checked your RAM, though, as if your RAM is corrupting data, this will show as a variety of errors in the disk checks (and trying to "fix" them with bad RAM will just make it worse).
3. Update your Network drivers. If the RAM and Disk both check out okay, but the Hash verification above on the installer fails, then it is possible that your download is being corrupted while it is downloading. In this case, the drivers for your network interface (probably WiFi on that thing) could be to blame.
Check Dell's Support Site and make sure you have the latest drivers for your network interface(s). Sometimes on devices like those, the WiFi drivers will be combined with the Bluetooth drivers (though if they're separate, BlueTooth shouldn't be relevant).
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