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- From: tmottone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Teemu Mottonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: SYS2237 ? NPX ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.133059.16771@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 13:30:59 GMT
- References: <19920911081059.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 22
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- In article <19920911081059.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> h198@hosp.med.umich.edu writes:
- >> I was recently playing with WOWII (a modplayer for DOS). Suddenly
- >> the program crashed and I got this error message: "SYS2237: DosKrnl:
- >> A NPX instruction was attempted but no NPX is present."
- >> What does this mean ? What's a NPX ?
- <...>
- > There are other things that can cause this. If the program really uses
- > a numeric coprocessor, OS/2 should emulate it. There is a fix out for
- > this called VBIOS.SYS (replacement VDD). Unfortunately, it doesn't fix
- > all of these NPX problems. Try it, and if it doesn't work, report it
- > to IBM. I am currently working with an IBM person on one of these.
-
- I don't think the program uses the coprocessor, it just plays MOD sound
- files through my Soundblaster. It does use a non-standard tweaked VGA
- mode (360x240x256?) though, could that cause the NPX error ? I'll try
- the VBIOS fix.
-
- Teemu.
- --
- Teemu Mottonen
- Dept. of Computer Science tmottone@kruuna.helsinki.fi
- Univ. of Helsinki, Finland tmottone@klaava.helsinki.fi
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