Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bu.edu!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!espen From: espen@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Espen H. Koht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: system 6.0.7. crashes Message-ID: <25971@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 25 Nov 90 18:30:25 GMT References: Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Distribution: comp.sys.mac Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 37 In article arild@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de (Arild Hestvik) writes: >I just installed system 6.0.7. I occasionally get crashes, with the >message > > Sorry, a system error just occurred > corprocessor not installed > >/with the usual bomb and restart > >Now I never had a coprocessor and the things I do dont require >one. Cananyone help me with this --please!! If you are using a IIsi, it sounds like this problem relates to the fact that the IIsi is the first Mac which has a 68030 processor without having a coprocessor. Some software manufacturers, despite warnings from Apple, used to make programs that assumed that if you had a 68030 in your Mac, there would also be a coprocessor present, and therefore never even bother to check if it was the case. That was fine of course until the IIsi came along. The most notable examples of programs which did this are probably Microsoft's Excel and Adobe's Photoshop. The latest updates to both these programs have now be fixed so they will run properly on the IIsi. These updates should be free if you have registered copies of the software. If this is happening while you are running some other application, and only when you run that application, it is probably the same problem as with Excel and Photoshop. Contact the software manufacturers and ask them if they have an update. If you are using system 6.0.7 on an old computer (which you shouldn't) this error message is probably caused by something which has nothing to do with a coprocessor. However, since with 6.0.7 has 'small helpful messages' for the different errors, you will get messages for unknown errors which doesn't necessarily make sense on a plus, SE or old mac II or whatever you are using. Try to track down the system error like you would do normally (blame the INITs) and just ignore the message about the coprocessor. Also if you have a mac which is not a IIsi, Classic or LC, the recommended system is 6.0.5. Good luck.