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Quadra 800 Weird Error

Quadra 800 Weird Error 68k 4 posts Dec 29, 2007 — Dec 29, 2007

#1 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 - 16:05

When using netscape 3, the system bombed stating the following:

"Floating Point Coprosser not installed"

But it has a full 040. Is my 68040 dieing?

I never swapped CPUs

This is realy weird. And before that, Netscape frose on Google.

I hope the FPU is not dead in the 040. :'(

#2 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 - 16:52

I have seen that error once or twice on a PowerPC which always has an FPU. It's probably a fluke.

#3 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 - 18:19

Ok. Just checking.

Thank You

#4 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 - 19:32

try with software FPU

http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/system.extensions/cdev/softwarefpu3.03.sit.hqx

this kind of errors usally come when you run a 68k app on PowerPC, because the Mac OS emulate the 68020 code without the floating point coprocessor ... in your case ... I do not know maybe bugy netscape written in FAT code