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Post #92,808
by Another Scott
3/29/03 11:54:33 AM
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New So what's the hardware verdict on Soyo Ath vs Abit P4?
Hi Darryl,

Are you happy with either of the recent hardware combinations you've tried with eCS? Lately I've been a fan of Soyo Dragon+ boards (seemed wonderful until I had to turn off Turbo mode in the BIOS to get it to recognize the USB port - no problems otherwise), and I've used an ABIT K7V (IIRC) Athlon system without problems either. Both of these boards are running Win2k.

As I read your reports, you've been able to get eCS running with most/all of the peripherals on either system, but have trouble applying eCS fixpacks. Is that the gist of it?

My OS/2 system is running Warp 3 Connect on a 486/133 SCSI box. I'm considering finally buying a new box for Warp and/or eCS, but your reports make me nervous. :-/ It makes me more strongly consider that Virtual PC for OS/2 might be the way to go.

What hardware would you recommend? Is it worth the hassle for a dedicated eCS box? Thanks.

Cheers,
Scott.
Post #92,823
by SpiceWare
3/29/03 1:07:14 PM
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Considering I'd get various hangs at different times(booting, already running) I think I had flacky hardware with the Soyo/Athlon. For the most part everything has been fine with the Abit/P4.

I was having a problem installing Visual Age C++ 3.0 - the second phase of installation(after the reboot) never happens. Somebody else posted something about this a while back at the forums at [link|http://www.ecomstation.com|http://www.ecomstation.com] though I can no longer find that thread.

I'd never had a problem installing VAC on eCS before, though I realized that I'd not installed any fix packs like I had done this time. So I reinstalled eCS and I was able to get VAC installed by doing it before any of the fixpacks. Today I'll be reinstalling the fixpacks.

The only fixpack I've consistently had problems with was the TCP/IP one. Jack mentioned that others with a Matrox video card have seen the same problem - so it's not the motherboard/CPU. Even though the install hangs, TCP/IP seems to function fine. I have not yet installed the TCP/IP fixpack on the Abit/P4 so I'll report back the results later today.
Darrell Spice, Jr.                      [link|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
     New Hardware - Take 2 - (SpiceWare) - (19) - March 27, 2003, 12:06:30 AM EST
         UserID/Password - (jake123) - (6) - March 27, 2003, 12:32:37 AM EST
             question - (SpiceWare) - (5) - March 27, 2003, 10:00:50 AM EST
                 I'm not a hundred percent sure. - (jake123) - (4) - March 27, 2003, 11:14:13 AM EST
                     I'd update them to 1.1 - (SpiceWare) - (3) - March 27, 2003, 12:10:51 PM EST
                         BFE - (inthane-chan) - (2) - March 27, 2003, 12:20:08 PM EST
                             Ah, our version up here is BFA - (jake123) - (1) - March 27, 2003, 12:29:19 PM EST
                                 I know my folx would approve - (SpiceWare) - March 27, 2003, 01:01:43 PM EST
         just a couple issues so far - (SpiceWare) - (8) - March 27, 2003, 10:35:32 AM EST
             Which devices? - (jake123) - (3) - March 27, 2003, 11:22:12 AM EST
                 Re: Which devices? - (SpiceWare) - (2) - March 27, 2003, 12:04:55 PM EST
                     Re: Which devices? - (madodel) - (1) - March 27, 2003, 08:33:50 PM EST
                         it needed the OHCI lines - (SpiceWare) - March 27, 2003, 09:01:26 PM EST
             update - (SpiceWare) - (3) - March 27, 2003, 09:21:30 PM EST
                 ACPI - (jake123) - March 28, 2003, 10:10:50 AM EST
                 So what's the hardware verdict on Soyo Ath vs Abit P4? - (Another Scott) - (1) - March 29, 2003, 11:54:33 AM EST
                     Re: So what's the hardware verdict on Soyo Ath vs Abit P4? - (SpiceWare) - March 29, 2003, 01:07:14 PM EST
         more info on blob pause - (SpiceWare) - (2) - March 29, 2003, 03:00:44 PM EST
             That one's documented - (jake123) - (1) - March 29, 2003, 04:12:39 PM EST
                 Sounds good - (SpiceWare) - March 29, 2003, 06:32:50 PM EST

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