Have you tried to reload win98? if you did and same problem, Try to change the
RAM first.

J Qian

Eric Rozner wrote:

> Hello all-
> My aunt just purchases a PII 350 barbones.  I installed all of the hardware
> that she needed and began to install Windows 98.  At the first restart (The
> "Starting Windows 98 for the first time" splash screen appears) the
> computer seems to lock up.  So I hit "escape" and it shows that I have this
> error message: "Your program caused a divide overflow error.  If the
> problem persists, contanct your program vendor."  I have no idea what this
> error message is, this is my first PII system, so all anything you can
> contribute would be great.  I have composed about 3 or 5 socket 7 type
> systems.  Here are the specs, if you need any addidtiontal information
> please e-mail me.
> Azza Motherboard (Intel 440 BX chipset)
> Pentium 2 350  (3.5x * 100bus speed in bios)
> 64 MB SDRAM PC100
> WD ~3g. Harddrive
> 8X cdrom
> 8 meg onboard video
> onboard sound
> Hopefully i'm just missing something simple and nothing is bad.
> Thanks a lot!
> Eric Rozner
>
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