big screen
July 14th, 2002, 04:16 PM
compaq 1255 notebook, amd athalon k6 @333mghz 3 gig hdd. locked up previously,took it to a friend. he removed os, then reinstalled it, reinstalled drivers ect. ran great for awhile, ran scandisk, for c, and d. no d drive was detected. now goes to start up menu, comes up registry configuration error choose command prompt only. then comes up your program caused a divide overflow error, if the problem persists contact program vendor. my orig. backup won't iniciate, and i failed to back up after installing new os. unable to download recovery disk from compaq. do I need to buy a cd from compaq?
Dodge
July 15th, 2002, 02:56 AM
Ok if I understand you correctly You computer wont boot to windows right?
Is the error message coming up before windows starts to load?
Will it go into Command prompt only?
Give this a try if you dont know what program is causing this error. When you boot your PC, when the first screen appears hit the F8 key (CTRL if F8 doesn't work) when the menu appears choose Step by Step confirmation. Choose yes on each step. That will allow everything to load. This should allow you to figure out which program is causing the Error....
As for a Compaq recovery disk. You will need to call compaq and tell them what kind of laptop it is and the model number. They may still be able to provide you with a recovery disk. It will cost you though of coarse....