Hi Paul,

paul marwick wrote:

> If I'm going to have to replace a motherboard I might as well upgrade 
> and turn my current main machine into the new test machine. As a result, 
> I'm interested in motherboards that will work with OS/2, eCS, probably 
> socket 939 with AMD-64 CPU. Can anyone suggest boards I might look at? 
> And what chipsets work best with eCS?

I went through a similar exercise a few weeks ago. First I made a 
mistake by choosing a motherboard of which the chipset was(is) not 
supported! Then I needed to find an alternative (within the limited 
assortment of my local supplier)....  Better do it right first time!

in short:
For each candidate motherboard you need to check if its chipset is 
listed in DANIS506.doc (when you have eCS installed in \ecs\boot).
Then you have to check if the onboard video chip, or the one on your 
videocard, is supported by SNAP(/SE).
Same exercise for audio and NIC.

You can find reviews of all kinds of hardware for eCS in the hardware 
section of http://www.ecomstation.ru (incl mine about an ASRock board).
For the MB I choose the ASUS A8N-E, mainly because I wanted an AMD 
Athlon 64 processor (socket 939) and SATA-2, and I found some good 
reviews there. For video I selected a simple PCI-e card with ATI Radion 
X300 chip. The onboard NIC works with Genmac, Audio with Uniaud.
I don't say this is _the_ best choice, but I'm satisfied (incl price).

Regards, Rob.

-- 
Rob Hamerling, Vianen, NL (http://www.robh.nl/)


 
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