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Re: Install help needed!

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From: dcol... Dennis
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <4jt7d0$7...@texas.nwlink.com>, da...@nwlink.com says...
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>I'm running a 486 132 (really!) and when I try to install the bloody
>game under both DOS and Windows I get an "divide overflow" error.

Sounds like the same problem I had... It seems that C&C doesn't like Write-Back 
Caches, which the 132 (and 133) chips use.  I had to jumper my motherboard to 
run the chip at 100 MHz and not use Write-Back.  Once I did that, it worked 
fine.

Hope this helps!
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From: dcol...@vt.edu (Dennis)
Subject: Re: Install help needed!
Date: 1996/04/03
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