Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:35685 alt.msdos.programmer:462 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!uvaarpa!hudson!astsun1.astro.Virginia.EDU!jvb7u From: jvb7u@astsun1.astro.Virginia.EDU (Jon Brinkmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.msdos.programmer Subject: PC hangs with 8087 error Keywords: PC 8087 Floating Point Error Message-ID: <2063@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 20:03:01 GMT Sender: news@hudson.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: jvb7u@astsun1.astro.Virginia.EDU (Jon Brinkmann) Organization: University of Virginia, Charlottesville Lines: 13 I just installed a 8087 Floating Point Processor chip in my true-blue PC. It works great, except for one small problem. When the 8087 returns an error, the system hangs. For example, when using Microsoft C and taking the log(0.0) I get a message that says "log: SING error" and then everything hangs. Can anyone tell my why DOS hangs and how to fix it. Jon Brinkmann jvb7u@astsun1.astro.Virginia.EDU ================================================================================ Jon Brinkmann BITnet: jvb7u@Virginia.EDU Astronomy Department ARPA/Internet: jvb7u@astsun1.astro.Virginia.EDU University of Virginia UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!jvb7u