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eComStation 2.2 Beta Demo CD English first impressions
warp:
I tried quickly the cCS 2.2 Beta Demo CD on one of my 2 desktop pcs. I was happy, because it loaded well on the ASUS M4A88T-V EVO Mainboard.
The network card has been detected through the Realtek 8169 driver and I surfed on the Internet. The Flash plugin has not been installed and the wheel of the mouse didn't work. I scrolled the pages down, through the drag function. Now I would like to try the Beta Demo CD on the other pc, which has a Sabertooth 990 FX mainboard.
Daniel Caetano:
Well... some more results.
Tried to boot Demo CD on my old ASUS A7N8X-E DeLuxe (Athlon XP 2600+) but no luck on any mode (Modern, Modern with /VW, Safe mode, Legacy...). In fact, the boot always start as it should but after loading LOCATECD.SYS the boot process proceeds in such a slow pace that I was not in the mood to wait it finished (almost 5 minutes just to load the first 10 drivers.
Oddly enough, this system runs flawless eCS 2.0 (and also every older version of OS/2).
Booting on my "new" Intel DH67CL motherboard (i7 processor) seems to be improved compared to previous versions of eCS and OS/2 (which simply gave me a trap even before showing boot logo): now it boots to the options menu and then it proceeds to the system boot. It is very nice to see it running... but it "hangs" on network card "configuration" screen. Probably it is waiting for some key, but this is an impossible action, since it seems my USB keyboard is non operative. This "new" machine (which I bought two years ago, when I bought my eCS 2.0 license too) has no PS/2 or serial/keyboard ports... it has USB (EHCI) ports only. It is sad I was never able to run OS/2 nor eCS on this machine.
(I always took care of buying hardware that supported OS/2... every "external" device on these computers are supported; I just never thought that a motherboard could cause so much trouble when booting an operating system).
Daniel Caetano:
One more test: an old Soyo K7VTA-Pro motherboard with Athlon XP 2100+ (512MB RAM). Boot proceeds nicely until CACHE32 is loaded. Then the boot process becomes slow, something fails on creating desktop and after some time the system stops presenting some error regarding PMMERGE. Options selected just doesn´t matter, be it ACPI or non ACPI, enabling USB or not, the result is just the same.
ivan:
I tried it on a couple more machines. On one, Asus M2N68-VM it refuses to boot at all yet when that machine is booted to WSeB I can see all the files on the CD.
My Asus M4A78LT-M boots to a desktop, the Intel Pro/1000 nic is seen and used and I can get to the internet BUT there is no way that I can do anything with the drives on the machine - every time I try to open a drive it gives a windows like message that the drive isn't formatted (they are HPFS and JFS). As a demonstration that is useless.
I assume the failures are down to this being a beta version and will be sorted out in time for delivery of the finished product.
I do have to sat it is nice being able to see how eCS is setup to install having not seen this before as all my installs are either WSeB or Warp 4.
jdeb:
Pretty much useless. Very disappointed. I tried it on a (UEFI Off) Z77, B75, AM3+, A75, and A55 board. No go on any of them. Just hangs or traps. Same old stuff. I am sure I could get the AM3+ to go but no time to play around. It runs I my eCS rig but I expected that.
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