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ecs on actual desktop PC
Levasai:
Somehow, the new os2world-maschine hates me. First, my old user login is vanished, then almost all "register" links goes nowhere and finally, no reister-mail was created. Maybe in a former life I was Marvin, the robot.
Hi out there,
In the last time, there are no success-stories about an installation of ecs on modern _desktop_ hardware. It looks like ecs doesn't run on this hardware anymore, but this is wrong.
Last week I took an Haswell-CPU (actual generation of socket 1150) together with an typical uefi-miniATX-board, 4GB of DDR3-RAM and start up ecs 2.2 beta 2.
It works! Even the installer works with more than 512MB. And everything works out-of-the-box.
To be precise:
-CPU: intel i3-4xxx Haswell-CPU
-RAM: one 4GB-DDR3 module
-Mainboard: biostar H81MHP
it uses the actual intel chipset H81
supported by actual intel 1150-socket CPUs
ALC892 sound (HDA compatible), real parallel and one real serial COM-port (on onboard-pinheader, but useable), old fashioned PCI-Slots and two PS/2-Ports for older accessories.
The USB3-Ports are not supported but USB2 works even on the ecs-beta-DVD for mouse, keyboard and memorystick (reading ecs.key).
The SATA3-Ports are used in SATA2-mode so you have 4 SATA-Ports.
Unfortunately no IDE port and most sata-to-ide-adapter doenst work with DVD-ROM drives.
It offers RTL 8111 gigabit network, but I wasn't able to get a connection by this chip. So I put a cheap $10 RTL 8169-Card into the board and got network running.
I believe this could be said about other actual boards, but no one mention it. Thinking back to my expierence about former ecs-versions and any combination of uefi-boards, this is a very good sign.
This board is sold in EU, but at Newegg, there is a similar build board: Biostar H81MHP2 (lacks DVI and one PCI-slot, but offers LPT and COM-port at the outside), but there seems to be one one sells this down under (NZ+AU). For those who stick more with Asus or Gigabyte: similar build boards are out there too!
Greetings
Andy
dbanet:
It has nothing to do with UEFI because it works in BIOS mode.
ivan:
Over on the comp.os.os2.misc newsgroup Lars Erdmann outlines his installing of eCS on an Asrock MB with 6 core AMD processor.
Levasai:
Ivan: A 6-core AMD is in the most cases one of the K10-series CPUs from 2010 prior to the Fusion systems. This is the same CPU im working with now until I swap in the next weeks.
Boris: Uefi was the least of my concerns.
In the last three years (since intel SandyBridge and AMD Fusion CPUs got marketed) i tried many board/CPU-combinations (about 30-40 different). No, not special thinkpad-in-a-box (called "laptop") or exotic CPU-to-Board-glued hardware, but real classic hardware for desktop and tower machines avalible from mail-order-houses.
Ecs trapped always on install. With a already eCS-installed harddisk, the system freezes within 5 minutes in the most cases (tried every trick in the book, execpt to go back to pre-2010 "ancient" hardware*). Even the demo disks doesn't run smooth.
The most reason why this experiment runs succsessfull is the ecs-22-beta2. Well done, mensys!
For a newbie with no experience to install ecs from scratch on a system which run a actual Windows or Linux in the first place was sentenced to fail in the past.
With this version we have the chance to guide new users to eCS.
And long-term users can copy this success with their own taste of hardware.
*this is no disgrace of such hardware. I'm using this today. But you can't go to newegg or amazon and buy such thing. Even on ebay they are sold as outdated. If your hardware got broken, you have to face this.
Martin Iturbide:
--- Quote from: Andy on May 22, 2014, 08:09:42 pm ---Somehow, the new os2world-maschine hates me. First, my old user login is vanished, then almost all "register" links goes nowhere and finally, no reister-mail was created. Maybe in a former life I was Marvin, the robot.
--- End quote ---
Hi Andy, on 2012 system crash we decided to create a new instance of everything making all users register again at OS2World, thats why the old user login vanished.
Which was your other user? was it Andy P? I see it as it fail to complete the registration, I can delete it so we don't have a duplicated account and only leave with your current one.
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