VXD ERRORS

[GUTLEBER]

IM GETTING A ERROR MESSAGE ON A 2000 MACHINE JUST LOADED UP A FEW MONTHS AGO. IT READS EXCEPTION OE HAS OCCURED AT 0028:C1521416 IN VxD ESDI_506(01)+00001026
THIS WAS CALLED FROM 0028:c182f678 in vXd voltrack (04)+00000A18. I HAVE GONE TO MICROSOFT BUT NO HELP
THANKS

 

[Toejam31]

You may need a BIOS upgrade.

Exception 0E is the divide overflow exception. In this situation, the hard disk controller is reporting a disk geometry of zero sectors per track. This causes the driver to divide by zero when attempting to communicate with the device.

Windows obtains disk geometry information from the BIOS by issuing software interrupt 13h subfunction 08h. The BIOS is supposed to return the number of sectors per track in the low 5 bits of the CL register, but it is returning zero instead.

Toejam31

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