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Hi, I recently bought a p2 400 Hewlett Packard Pavilion. For about a month it ran perfectly without any problems. Then I turned the computer on and after the bios stuff got done and it was time for win98 to load up, it just stayed at a black screen with a cursor blinking at the top left and there was a tapping noise coming from the computer. I let it rest but it kept doing this, so i loaded up fdisk on a startup disk and had to delete and then make a new partition. then, after it formated the drive, the tapping noise stopped and I was able to recover. this again happened about a couple of days later and so I thought i would try to see what the problem was. so i put in the startup disk where it just went to dos and did "cd windows" and then "win" and got the "Your program caused a divide overflow error." So i recovered like before and it ran fine and didn't do this again for about a week. then it happened again about a few days later. That is where i stand today. what is going on and how do i fix it. remember my computer is brand new and i haven't added any new hardware.
That "tapping" sound is the sound of the hard drive needle trying to transit a gouge on the hard drive platter. At some point that hard drive has been dropped. When you FDISKed the drive, during the format afterwards you got the message "Trying to recover sector suchandsuch."?
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Yes! i did get a message similar to that. the suchandsuch was a number that changed. One other thing is that my brother has the exact same computer model as mine and has never had this problem. Also I just made my post 10 minutes ago and want to congratulate you on the quick response. thanks alot. what should i do?
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Howdy, Well if its under warranty take it in and let HP fix it, if the hard drive is having problems it will need to be replaced, the down side to all of this is if you do take it to a authorized HP service center you most likely will not have the computer for 4 to 6 weeks.
Laters,
Kevin The Tech Dude.
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I have the same problem. I recently started having problems with my computer, so thought it was time to wipe everything and start over. I re-partitioned the disk, and booted using Win98 startup disk. This is now very unstable, and only boots fully from the floppy 3 out of 4 times. When it does boot fully, I then access the CD-ROM, and sometimes get the message "this operation caused a divide overflow error". The times when I can access the cdrom, win98 setup starts, then says "please wait while setup copies files", and then goes back to the DOS prompt or freezes.... any ideas, anyone?
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I have recently been getting a divide overflow error when I shut down my computer. I am running windows 98 and am not running any other applications when I shut my computer down. The system runs fine and never crashes the only problem is when I try to shut down it goes through all the screens until it comes to the screen that should say it is safe to turn your computer off and it instead reads your program has caused a divide overflow error if problem persists contact your vendor. Any thoughts?
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i have a scsi hard drive and every time i create a fat32 partition and try to boot up i get a divide overflow error.
Note, if I fdisk from a dos 6.2 diskette and partition to max of 2.4 GB then it works fine. My disk is 9 GB and i dont want to loos all that space. I've checked the jumper settings and can;t find anyhting obvious.any ideas?
thanks
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Hi there...
Well.. I just got the divide overflow error for the first time ever on my pc. It was a good pc for @ least 3 years. The worse thing is that I can't even boot from a win9X boot disk. It looks to me that a re-image is required. However, my question is.. What exactly causes this problem??? Any ideas?
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Hi i'm also getting the divide overflow message...I got a new jetway mobo last month and set up everything as instructed using anti static wristguard!cpu is 233 and it ran ok fro a while but started crashing, i tried to defrag but got Not enough memeory to perform this operation message, sooo it finally packed in 3 days ago. i retrievd all my important data from HD and fdisked and formatted HD. Now i can't even get win98 to set up and just get the divide overflow message saying its caused by the program i'm running and i should contact my program vendor! I'm stumped what it could be Any ideas would be gratefully recieved.Thanks
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I'm getting this error as well on a Win Me PC. At bootup I usually need to go into safe mode, restart and it's fine. So I can still get into Windows and do what I need to but want to know what's causing the prob. Any help would be appreciated...
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I have a HP 6355 Pavilion that now seems to go through POST successfully ( one beep), then immediately goes to blinking cursor and "your program has caused a divide overflow error" . repair suggestions are: replace BIOS (no info for this at Phoenix), replace the motherboard,and remake the system, will try above stuff first...any other suggestions are welcome
thank you
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i have just tried re-installing win98 from the pathetic loss that is Win 2000. i'm running a custom build with one 20gb ide drive and a 10gb ibm lvd scsi drive.
i setup all the bios to boot off scsi cdrom and ide-0 and all i'm getting when i try and boot from the win 98 cd is a "Your program caused a divide overflow error. etc etc.. and a load of other stuff b4 it like all the scsi card detection. Now i'm guessing that it could be a scsi card error in win 98??
cuz i've tried booting in win2k and formatting and partioning and scanning etc to find no probs.anyone got any clues to what this s---ty error is? ill try a few more things but its a kinda wierd error.
cheers
matt
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I just added an additional drive to my system and was about to format it after fdisk and during the re-boot got the msg that your system caused a divide overflow error....I cannot get the system to use a startup disk for windows98.....any ideas out there
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Try loading the BIOS defaults in SETUP. It cured my "Divide Overflow Error" on an old S7AX mobo. I have yet to determine the exact BIOS setting change required.
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when i restart my computer it sometimes boots up normally but the other times it goes to the screen that says windows 2000 ME but stops there. I have tried leaving it and see if it will completely boot up but it won't so then i press esc then the error messsage comes on "divide overflow error"
does anyone know how to fix this?
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I am also suffering from this !@#$ divided overflow error. My message has an addional message "following is missing or corrupted C:\windows\system\vmm32.vxd" I'm operating on the Windows ME o/s and running on a 400 MHz Intel Celeron processor (PC/100 Motherboard). I have recently installed a SCSI card to run my UMAX scanner. Have any of you recently installed some hardware/software that may be causing this error? Also, it is interesting to note that all the message conserning this error is running on Win 98 or ME O/S.
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I figured the dumb thing out!
go to your search for files and put in 'bootlog.prv' and open it with notepad. there should be alot of this
[00175CC2] Loading Vxd = VCOMM
[00175CC2] LoadSuccess = VCOMM
if there isn't a loading success delete that part of it or some how take it out. this worked for me! good luck to you all
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i get my "divide overflow" message when i try to run dos cd game calld wizardry 7. any ideas
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