Divide Overflow Error Dos
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we highly recommend that you visit our Guide for New Members. What is Divide Overflow? Discussion in 'DOS/Other' started by cyberbuy, Apr 13, 2000. divide overflow error in assembly language Thread Status: Not open for further replies. Advertisement cyberbuy Thread Starter Joined: Dec 24,
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1999 Messages: 11 Don wrote: I just loaded windows 3.1 on a 386 and when I rebooted the cpu it your program caused a divide overflow error gave me the following message: Divide Overflow ] What does this mean? Looking forward to an answer. Thanks! Don [emailprotected] cyberbuy, Apr 13, 2000 #1 Sponsor LarryCore Joined: Aug 26, 1999 divide by zero or overflow error foxpro Messages: 5,223 It means that a program tried to access a part of memory that it should not have. Where did this message show up? During the loading of Windows (after the blue Windows logo)? ------------------ Get free stuff and help out a poor computer tech (updated 4/16/2000): http://www.rkfdcore.com/ebaypics/referrals.htm LarryCore, Apr 16, 2000 #2 cyberbuy Thread Starter Joined: Dec 24, 1999 Messages: 11 Hi Larry,
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It showed up after I tried to reboot the cpu. It gave me the message that win 3.1 loaded successfully and that I should restart the cpu,which I did! and as it was starting dos it beeped at me and gave me the following message: [DRIVE OVERFLOW ] Thanks! Don cyberbuy, Apr 17, 2000 #3 LarryCore Joined: Aug 26, 1999 Messages: 5,223 Umm - as it was starting DOS... I'm afraid that doesn't tell me enough. This is DOS 6.2 right? After MSDOS is now starting? If so, when you see DOS is starting press F8 and you will be stepped through your CONFIG and AUTOEXEC. Say yes to everything and let us know which line gives you the error. If it is BEFORE the MSDOS is starting... that is bad. ------------------ Get free stuff and help out a poor computer tech (NEW DEAL ADDED 4/17/2000): http://www.rkfdcore.com/ebaypics/referrals.htm LarryCore, Apr 17, 2000 #4 cyberbuy Thread Starter Joined: Dec 24, 1999 Messages: 11 Right after it does the system check and it begins to say that it's starting dos 6.22...that's when it beep's and gives me the "DRIVE OVERFLOW" message. Thanks! for the tip I will check for
with Master Document or with just adding each one on to the end of the previous one. It says "divide overflow". The weird thing divide overflow is generated when is I have done this in the past with no problems, when divide overflow in computer architecture the document was actually a little longer. Any ideas? ------------------ Dick Knoblauch07-17-2000, 06:57 PMI have this problem with
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a DOS game I play in Win95. If I realy want to play the game, I must keep ertrying to load the game, untill it works. Very inconvenient if https://forums.techguy.org/threads/what-is-divide-overflow.30086/ trying to load WP. Are you trying to run WP DOS in Windows? ------------------ Dick You write/I polish morag07-17-2000, 07:52 PMHMMM - that's an interesting thought. I've tried it (and got the same darned "overflow" message - wondered perhaps I should buy a teeny little plunger or something) on both computers; the new computer *is* a windows computer, when I http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-2537.html?s=5db2ec2b8e4e90c4c3e60231b2fd28a1 want to use WP I go to DOS by going to the Start button, then MSDOS Prompt. So maybe that does run it through windows. And the old 386 workhorse computer, on which I used to be able to assemble the document but can't now, has had Win3.1 installed on it recently. I haven't been knowingly starting windows on it before going to WP, but maybe it's there somehow doing its thing. I wonder how I can make it stop? Dick Knoblauch07-17-2000, 10:18 PMOnce-upon-a-time, I had a 486 with 3.1, it was set up to boot to DOS, when you were ready to go to 3.1, you had to give it the command. How it was set that way, I have no idea. We now need a DOS expert. ------------------ Dick You write/I polish Bob Walker07-18-2000, 06:22 AMI suspect loading win3.1 modified your config.sys or autoexec.bat, especially changing the files= and/or buffers= lines. Do a directory list in c: for config.* and autoexec.*, find the most recent version by date before you loaded win3.1, and compare those files
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