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#31
I believe I had updated to the latest Dani driver when it was released, but with my memory, I could be wrong.  

The eCS version should be 1.2R.  I thought I had kept up with all fixes.  

Thanks for the ideas - I'll pass them on to my friend.

Assuming I get eCS booting, is there a driver for the Realtek 8111E LAN chipset?
#32
My friend swapped out my 32 bit motherboard for a 64 bit Asus MA489GTD Pro motherboard.  Bios was set for native IDE for the controller.  After motherboard change, nothing would boot.  Boot Manager on drive 1came up, but when eCS (1.2) was selected, the computer immediately rebooted every time.  Not even a glimpse of the eComStation screen.  XP showed the Windows screen, then died.  Both are on disk 1.  Ubuntu 8.04, which I had on a small second drive and had looked at occasionally, showed the welcome screen, but died soon after.  

I'm currently on a reinstall of XP on a new drive.  My friend has my other drives, motherboard, and cards, and plans to build a test machine with them to see if the OS's will still boot with the old configuration.  I'd like to get at least my old eCS on old drive 1 working with the new motherboard.  Any ideas?

Thank you.
#33
Warpcafe, I have no problem downloading large files using Seamonkey in eCS (for example, I download Seamonkey releases.)  It's only e-mail that has the problem.  As it happens in both Seamonkey and MR/2, it would seem that the issue may not be with the those two mail apps, but possibly something else.  Of course, I know next to nothing, so I'm probably wrong.  The messages download fine to MR/2 Win and Seamonkey in XP, so it doesn't seem to be a Comcast issue.  The Nic driver is for an Intel Pro 10/100 card I've used for who knows how long.

Pete, thank you for the info re the registry.


Al
#34
Forgot this was here <sheepish look.>  Still having the same problems.  How do I access the registry?

Another issue - when using eCS (1.2), MR/2 ICE 2.67 and Seamonkey (currently 2.08) will not download large e-mail messages.  Both apps time out, and that happens any time I try to download mail with them (I don't try them at the same time.)  I have to boot to XP to get my mail directly from comcast.net, from where I can move the large messages to Saved or delete them, then I can boot eCS and get the smaller mails.  SM is not set for any message size limit, nor is ICE (doesn't appear to have such a. setting.)  If I didn't have an XP, I'd be in real trouble, as eCS browsers aren't compatible with Comcast's Smartzone mail page.

Any ideas?

Thank you,

Al

#35
How about eCS 2.0?  I can get it.  How will that work with the above hardware?
#36
Quote from: ivan on 2010.10.03, 00:26:33
Hi OriAl,

One question, why the USB3 model and not just the PRO - we don't have any drivers for the NEC USB3 chips, and I don't think we will any time soon short of a miracle.

Now a couple of observations.  At the moment there is no driver for the inbuilt LAN but you can use your PCI card for that.  Sound will require a little experimentation with the uniaud drivers to find the one that will work - I can't be of much help as we don't use sound on our OS/2 machines.

You shouldn't need a floppy drive because eCS is a bootable CD.

You will have a choice of either getting an SATA CD/DVD or putting an IDE one as slave to your IDE hard disk - not a good idea as a permanent setup, or getting a new SATA hard drive and installing eCS2 on it then transferring everything you need from your old drive.

Not long ago I set up a system for a friend using the non IDE3 version of this board and I must say Suse runs very well on it so I would assume OS/2 / eCS would as well.

ivan

I haven't ordered anything yet - still looking at finances.

A friend picked out the board and other hardware, as I know little about this.  Windows XP (which I have on my system and also need to learn much more about how to use, like eCS) which may support it at some point.  I've been doing more browsing in XP, as the pages load faster, and the browser doesn't crash as often as Seamonkey 2.x in eCS does (Seamonkey 1.x didn't.)  Plus, I have sound and video play.

I have two IDE drives and two IDE CDs, so he selected an IDE controller card, and an external USB floppy, as I still have some stuff on floppies.

The onboard video is ATI, so SNAP should work.

I haven't messed with Uniaud yet.

Thank you for your help.

#37
How about this board and an AMD Phenom II 640 CPU?

Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 Socket AM3 890 ATX Motherboard

Here's a link:

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0330615

Thank you.

Just noticed this has no floppy controller, but I could get a USB floppy.
#38
I tried safemode.  Same problem.

This is using eCS 1.2.  I
#39
I have an Intel lan card (PCI.).

It may be a little while before I actually buy, but it will happen.  Motherboard, RAM, and whatever else I need.

I did order eCS 2.0.  I'll migrate it over my current system..
#40
I cannot use Seamonkey or Firefox in eCS 1.2.  The CPU is always pegged at 99.9%, and page loading is extremely slpw, or the app locks and must be closed, or crashes.  I don't know what to do about this.  It wasn't problem with SM 1.1x or FF 2.x.
#41
It should be MR - how do I check?  I do use Dani's drivers.

How about video?  Is Snap okay with a 64 bit video card or onboard graphics?  I'd need Uniaud for sound, correct?

How should BIOS be set?

I've actually used OS/2 since 2.11, but my knowledge remains limited due to physical, concentration, and learning issues.  I'd like to upgrade to eCS 2.0 and try to learn more about getting more out of eCS and using it with modern hardware (Windows, too, only because everything works with it.  I looked at Ubuntu, but I'm used to drive letters and the like.)

Thank you for all the help,

Alan
#42
Hardware / eCS 1.2 and 64 bit motherboard
2010.08.12, 21:21:05
Will eCS 1.2 work if I replace my 32 bit motherboard with a 64 bit motherboard and keep my hard drives? 
#43
Hardware / Re: eCS won't boot
2009.09.10, 01:09:47
I did have someone re-seat the cables and such.  The system is still booting, but it seems to be missing some things.  For example, no setup tab for Doodle's screen saver (I've uninstalled, and reinstalled), but no joy.  I'd like to boot to the eCS CD, xcopy /hotserv the current C drive to an empty partition (so I can copy it back if needed), format C, then do a crash recovery restore from a recent backup.  Should this work?

Thanks again.
#44
Hardware / Re: eCS won't boot
2009.09.02, 20:43:16
The power loss did trash my boot drive.  Today, for some reason, the CD boot did work.  I had to run chkdsk /F on the boot partition, and a couple of others. After I did that, I looked at a zipped backup of the boot partition (zipped from a CD boot), and compared it to the drive. I compared the remaining directories, also.  On the drive, all directories after NULL were gone, and in FOUND directories.  I copied all the missing directories, and missing files from the root, from the zip, prayed, and rebooted.  There was eCS.  It was this, or format and restore (or copy everything from the zip.).

I need a backup util I can put on CD (I actually don;t know how to do that.)  I'm still using Fastback, with Crash Recovery floppies.
#45
Hardware / eCS won't boot
2009.09.01, 22:49:45
Yesterday, I had some kind of problem with the electric outlet that the computer and my phone is plugged into.  Power stopped coming through it all of a sudden.  Of course, that stopped the computeer and everything else plugged into the UPS unit.  Then had a couple of flickers before it died totally (after the first interrupted the reboot), I had the power on the UBS turned off.  Turned it on an hour or so later, but still no power.

The electrician came this morning.  Naturally, the outlet had power, but he replaced it with a three prong outlet in case the problem was transient.  I had the UPS turned on.  Everything started, but eCS wouldn't boot after selecting it in Boot Manager.   Nothing showed on screen but a blinking cursor - normally, the files loaded in the boot process display in order.   I then tried to boot from the eCS 1.2 CD - no boot, either. - the eComStation 1.2 welcome screen  appeared, which is the first thing that happens, and that was the end.  So it isn't necessarily a problem with the eCS C: drive, but something as strange as not being able to print from Dos apps in eCS since I changed monitors to a widescreen (it's SNAP driver, and the Dos apps come up fine.)

Any ideas I can try to get eCS booting?  I don't understand why a CD boot wouldn't work.

XP booted fine (took forever, but it always does.)