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Name: mark k
Date: April 13, 2001 at 21:40:21 Pacific
Subject: what is divide overflow

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I just installed dos 6.22 and win 3.1 on my kids computer.after set up it told me to reboot my system and when I get the dos prompt A to type in win to start win.well when I did that is said divide overflow.it won't let me into win at all. what is divide overflow and how do I fix it??????help me please I have been working on this computer for three days now it is one thing after another thanks in advance...

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Response Number 1

Name: The Doof
Date: April 14, 2001 at 06:54:28 Pacific

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The possible causes for a divide overflow error are seemingly endless. Things that might cause it:
A DOS application or utility that can't handle the speed of a pentium class processor.
An early (less than 120 Mhz) Pentium that has the infamous "floating point errata".
A processsor of any type that is overheating or has started to fail.
Inproperly seated RAM or RAM that has started to fail.
Bad sector(s) on the hard drive.
There was a minor power surge while Windows was installing.
A real mode driver or utility that doesn't play nice with Win3x.
A third party memory manager that won't release control to Windows.
and so on. The first thing to try is to REM any line in the Autoexec.bat that points to any third party application or utility you may have installed. Reboot and see if the error goes away. If that fails, run scandisk and then format the drive using:
Format C: /u
and reinstall DOS and Windows without installing anything else or using Memmaker until Windows is installed. If windows starts up normally, run Memmaker and you should be okay. That would point to something you had installed in DOS previously and will narrow down what caused the error. On the otherhand, if Windows won't start up from the "fresh" install, you are looking at one of the hardware problems listed above.

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Name: fred6008
Date: April 18, 2001 at 15:12:02 Pacific

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I don't know that much about divide overflow, but you said you were booting to the A:\> prompt? I don't think you can do that. You have to boot to C:\> or you do not load your config.sys and autoexec.bat files, so there would be no himem.sys loaded which Windows requires.
I would boot to C:\> and deal with whatever problems are left then.

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