From: "Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Newbie Q: DPMI setup failed!
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 21:03:29
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> Warning: Coprocessor not present and DPMI setup failed!
>          If application attempts floating operations system may hang!

>   My system is Pentium Pro 200 with 64MB RAM and 4.3 GB hard-drive. 

Much more information is needed about the operating environment.  Is this
DOS?  What memory manager?  What DPMI provider?

This message comes from DJGPP's npxsetup.c - which is trying to determine
if a coprocessor is present using the method straight out of the Intel
recommendation code.  If it doesn't see one, it then tries to call a DPMI
1.0 extension to enable coprocssor emulation.

If you have the environment variable 387=n set, and run under a braindead
DPMI which doesn't support the emulation extension (win 3.0, NT?) then
you might see this message.  If you really have a PP200, and it's not
broken, then the problem is the environment variable.