Your program caused a divide overflow error

kenk · 09-18-2004, 01:24 PM

Hey folks, today I was working on a clients Micron-Win98 se. machine. After formatting his C drive, I Put in the Win98 CD in and also the start-up floppy and restarted. At the command prompt I typed setup as I have done many times. I got an interesting error (Your program caused a divide overflow error) Needless to say I could not reload his operating system. Not sure what to do. Thanks in advance

Ken K.

**ZER0X** · 09-18-2004, 01:33 PM

this might help http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-623...hreadID=157591

Lorand · 09-18-2004, 03:52 PM

Try deleting the term "noems" in the entry "device=emm386.exe noems" (or something like that) from config.sys file that's on the startup disk.

**Praetor** · 09-18-2004, 06:09 PM

Or use a more generic bootdisk? I recall having a bunch of slightly different W98 disks

09-18-2004, 01:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
kenk New Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Mpls MN Posts: 4	Your program caused a divide overflow error Hey folks, today I was working on a clients Micron-Win98 se. machine. After formatting his C drive, I Put in the Win98 CD in and also the start-up floppy and restarted. At the command prompt I typed setup as I have done many times. I got an interesting error (Your program caused a divide overflow error) Needless to say I could not reload his operating system. Not sure what to do. Thanks in advance Ken K.

09-18-2004, 01:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
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09-18-2004, 03:52 PM	#3 (permalink)
Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 41 Posts: 3,042	Try deleting the term "noems" in the entry "device=emm386.exe noems" (or something like that) from config.sys file that's on the startup disk.