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Lichen Software
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on: July 11, 2008, 18:17
A friend is upgrading an 8500 with more RAM, Sonnet Accellerator, new hard drive. Everything is in. When he goes to start up he is getting a generic error message: Sorry A System Error Occured Divide By 0. There is no error number. It then goes on to say he can start up with extensions Off. He has done that and can get up. He is getting this both with an OS on the hard drive and when he tries to start up with a system CD. Any thoughts on a cause? He would like to do a clean system install on this thing, but can't start from the CD. I have already had him pull out any PCI cards and try again. TIA Dave |
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wove
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Reply #1 on: July 12, 2008, 18:47
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Is there any specific software needed for the Sonnet Accelerator? Did you press the Cuda/reset button after installing the upgrades? If the cache on the motherboard is removable you might wish to remove it until you can configure it with the accelerator configuration software. Are you trying to start with a system and or CD that natively supports G3/G4 processors. A G3/G4 processor uses speculative processing by default, while it is turned off by default on non G3/G4 systems. System 7.6 for instance would know nothing of of this. bill
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Lichen Software
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128 MB Posts: 252
Reply #2 on: July 12, 2008, 20:00
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He got it up and running. It was a simple extension conflict. He is 7 hours north of me so I can't see exactly what it was, but it appeared that he had system disks set up for 68000 processors and an extension for 68000 only was installed. It took a while to track it down. He has installed the accelerator software. The CUDA button was pushed. He seems to be on his way. He has since repartitioned the new drive and is going for partitions with 7.6.1 9.1 OS X 10.3 with Xpostfacto We will see how it goes.
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