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Co-processor
Name: I386 Date: April 21, 2002 at 03:10:14 Pacific
Comment:
I have a co-processor with this text printed on it: Super Math Chips J38700DX T9M06A 9142-A
It seems to be a 80387-proc When I plug this coproc into my motherboard, the bios recognizes it. But the system becomes very unstable (floating point-errors, stack underflow and overflows...), even my soundcard drivers gives an error. When i run Nortun Utilities System Information it says that te coproc is a Non-intel 80287.
Is it a 387-proc or not? becom all systems whit a optional coproc unstable if you use them? Will my system unstable if I use a real Intel 80387 ?
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