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 > > The PCBUILD web site always needs good submissions. If > you would like to contribute to the website, send any > hardware tech tips or hardware reviews to: > [log in to unmask] Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html