dallassalad100 wrote:
> I purchased a different ASUS board a while ago and it wouldn't take 
> eCS.  i just purchased a ASUS K8V SE deluxe.  i bought this based on a 
> good recommendation at the Russian Ecomstation site.  I can't load eCS 
> no matter what I do.  I disabled every possible function on the MB,  
> won't load. I loaded eCS on a drive on my OLD AMD K62-500 MB and then 
> tried to install in the K8.  Would not boot.I've tried 5 different 
> drives to install to, didn't work.  i am so frustrated as I have been 
> trying to install this on either board for over 8 MONTHS!  I've spent 
> hundreds of dollars on both eCS and the MB's but to no avail!  I have 
> been a fan of OS2 for 13 years.  But the problem with this OS is you 
> almost at times have to be a programmer to get it to work  I have 
> extreme persistance but I am being tested.  WHAT do I have to do?  
> God, I'm so frustrated.  I'm using standard gear, nothing unusual.  

I am not sure there is any "standard" gear any more.  I have a similar 
situation to yours; several MBs that eCS won't install on and a socket 
7, AMD 550 that it will install on; providing I give it a clean HDD and 
a single primary partition - at least with install LVM I get to chose 
the drive letter.  I then copy it to the HDD on the machine I intend to 
run it on as an extended.  I have an ECS MB that boots fine, but I can't 
get the mouse or KB to work.

It seems the more OS/2 gets "improved", the more difficult it is to 
install.  I have spent about two years, as a once in a while effort, to 
get eCS on an AMD 64.  I am on my third MB; ASUS K8V-X.  I am about to 
declare it ready to go on-line.

Because I am considering changing versions of the three platforms I use, 
this HDD is a bit more "cluttered" than normal.  It has two DOS, W98SE 
and W2K, W4UPDATECD, eCS 1.2rm and eCS 2.0, plus a mix of FAT16, FAT32 
and HPFS app and data partitions.  If it is any consolation, this box 
will not except the W98SE install CD either.  DRDOS EMM386 crashes. 
FREEDOS with the "Q" stuff is OK.  W2K was no problem.

eCS 1.2rm installed on my laptop OK.  And that into an existing 
extended, twice, both before and after WXP and W2K were on the drive.

Standards, what standards?

Ray


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