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- From: cbas86@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("M.Garner")
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Divide Overflow - ???
- Message-ID: <C0JFI0.7M8@ccsun.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 13:44:24 GMT
- Sender: news@ccsun.strath.ac.uk (News account )
- Organization: University of Strathclyde
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- Hi
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- I'm looking for help.
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- We have two Amstrad PC`s, a 3286 and a 3386sx which have developed a curious
- fault. On booting they intermittantly come up with a "divide overflow" and then
- hang up. This occurs after the config.sys has been read, but before the
- autoexec.bat has executed. The machine can be rebooted using CRTL-ALT-DEL, but
- it takes several reboots before the machine runs normally.
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- I have tried booting from floppy, empty config.sys and autoexec.bat files,
- removing expansion cards, but nothing seems to work. Incidentally, both machines
- are about 18 months old (and I'm not responsible for buying them).
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- Has anyone any ideas as to what is wrong, and how it can be corrected
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- Cheers
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- Mark Garner.
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