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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.

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