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Article #732Re: Problem with CPBackup and AMD DX/4 100
From: Lynn Brigman
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 00:00
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In <3vs5bn$300_001@cruzio70.cruzio.com> johnw@cruzio.com (John Wittenberg) writes: > >In article <807129360snz@alcarg.demon.co.uk>, > Al Cargill <Al@alcarg.demon.co.uk> wrote: >|Hi >| >|I am having trouble with both CPBackup for DOS and Windows when >|trying to backup or restore to a Jumbo tape streamer having upgraded >|to an AMD 486 DX/4 100 CPU. The Windows version gives me an error box >|"Divide by zero or overflow error". The Dos version just flickers and >|goes back to the menu but there is a possibility of a divide zero >|error but it goes by too quickly. >| However with the Dos version if I pause the computer by >|pressing the pause key for a second or so and then press escape all >|seems well. I then tried it after setting the boot up system speed to >|low in the BIOS in case the CPU was too fast but with the same >|results in both Windows and DOS. >| Has anyone seen this problem - is it an incompatibility with >|the AMD (but why does it work after the pause?)? >| Any help gratefully received as PCTools tech support is not a >|direction I wish to tread (I pay for my phone calls!!) >| >|Cheers >|Al >I couldn't get CPBackup to work with my Pentium 90 until I disabled >primary and secondary cache in the BIOS. After that I was able to >restore from tapes I had backed up from my old 386 25. > >------------------------------------------------------------ > John Wittenberg How can you be in two places at once > Santa Cruz, CA, USA when you're not anywhere at all? > johnw@cruzio.com - Firesign Theatre Not knowing CP Backup does it need to be configured before using it.. If you had the program loaded and then changed cpu, might you need to reconfigure the program?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,c436411f886d8f97 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,c436411f886d8f97 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,c436411f886d8f97 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public From: rbrigman@ix.netcom.com (Lynn Brigman ) Subject: Re: Problem with CPBackup and AMD DX/4 100 Date: 1995/08/07 Message-ID: <403m24$dc7@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 107624703 references: <807129360snz@alcarg.demon.co.uk> <3vs5bn$300_001@cruzio70.cruzio.com> organization: Netcom newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,demon.tech.pc