Quincy Center for Technical Education
Computer Technology Department

Pentnt

Detects floating point division error (if present) in the Pentium chip, disables floating point hardware, and turns on floating point emulation.

pentnt [-c] [-f] [-o] [-?|-h]

Parameters

-c

Enables conditional emulation. Floating-point emulation is forced on only if the system detects the Pentium processor floating-point division error at start time. If you select this parameter, you must restart the computer for the changes to take effect.

-f

Enables forced emulation. Floating-point hardware is disabled and floating-point emulation is always forced on, regardless of whether the system exhibits the Pentium processor floating-point division error. This parameter is useful for testing software emulators and for working around floating-point hardware defects known to the operating system. If you select this parameter, you must restart the computer for the changes to take effect.

-o

Disables forced emulation and reenables floating-point hardware if it is present. If you select this parameter, you must restart the computer for the changes to take effect.

-?|-h

Displays Help for the command.