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divide overflow error
Name: jkid Date: February 3, 2005 at 17:06:05 Pacific OS: dos 7.1 CPU/Ram: 66 mhz / 7804 kb
Comment:
i have recently installed dos 7.1 on one of my computers and all of the neccessary files for it to work are installed on drive C:\. However, when I try to boot it up, it goes for awhile and then an error message comes up. It says:
"Your program has caused a divide overflow error."
Name: jboy Date: February 3, 2005 at 17:25:18 Pacific
Reply:
Only you are in a position to determine just what application is causing the error.
Try starting up with step-by-step confirmation to isolate the cause - typically that indicates a corrupt program, although there are other possibilities.
If all else fails - reinstall afresh.
I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.
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Response Number 2
Name: rogerashley Date: February 3, 2005 at 23:19:08 Pacific
Reply:
As Dos 7.xx is from W9x you should have a W9x CD with a license and CoA to be legal, it was never an official release. On the CD is a file called MSD.exe and this shows various hardware found as well as memory allocation. It would appear you have a memory conflict, therefore I would use a W9x CD to extract the DOS 7.x rather than bodging together an illegal O/S:
http://www.ctyme.com/msdos7.htm
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Response Number 3
Name: Deniska Date: February 6, 2005 at 20:32:34 Pacific
Reply:
The error is frequently generated by programs written in BP7 if they are executed on computers with clock speeds of approx >233MHz. There are numerous patches available on the web for fixing this. P.S. I very much doubt that this is a "memory conflict"!
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Response Number 4
Name: jboy Date: February 6, 2005 at 20:49:18 Pacific
Reply:
Posted specs are 66MHz - so your guess doesn't seem all that applicable
I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.
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Response Number 5
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: February 6, 2005 at 23:43:01 Pacific
Reply:
Look at your config & autoexec and figure out WHICH program causes a divide overflow/\.
M2
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Response Number 6
Name: dboy Date: February 15, 2005 at 07:17:36 Pacific
Reply:
I know joey, and I fixed the computer. To make this post short(unlike other posts I've made on the site), I will just say that I inserted a DOS boot disk, and copied the files on the boot disk to the hard drive.
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Response Number 7
Name: jboy Date: February 15, 2005 at 10:14:52 Pacific
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