rallee2{at}comcast.net wrote:

> Hello again Steve
>   The first two questions you asked, those regarding the >64 meg
thing and MSI motherboards being especially concerned about OS/2 support,
were both covered on this forum perhaps 2 years ago.  I probably still have
it somewhere among dozens of backup CDs and I will try to find them but
it's gonna take some time.  IIRC, David Wu, may have brought up the MSI
thing, though not the >64meg issue, but I am certain that the letter
contained a link to the MSI site, probably the global site, that confirmed
at least their statements.  
>
Hi Jimmy,

This very machine I'm typing on has an MSI MS6154VA motherboard with 
Ensoniq [Creative chipset] sound onboard - which does indeed say in the 
printed manual about the onboard sound that drivers for OS/2 are on the 
installation CD. Like the OS/2 memory >64MB BIOS situation - which was 
fixed initially by Daniela Engert with her patchldr, which modified the 
os2ldr for a different register loading to use with INT 15h memory 
functions, since deprecated as kernels addressed the problem - the 
manual was bullshit! There were *no* OS/2 drivers for other than LAN, IIRC.

I even sent MSI a Colorworks-edited  screenshot of the Sound drivers 
page from the PDF manual for the mobo, clearly illustrating the 
"supposed" OS/2 support - and over the course of several months 
correspondence directly with their software technicians, they admitted 
in writing that the OS/2 reference in the CD and online-PDF manuals was 
in fact a *TYPO*!

I ended up getting a separate CS4614-based AOpen AW320 PCI card, which 
is a pain as there are only 3 PCI slots onboard. During the course of 
the correspondence they were in fact keen to be helpful - and even sent 
me a set of OS/2 drivers from the mid-90s or even early 90s -- they 
didn't work of course and they just said "sorry" O:-) !

So don't believe as Gospel what you read in any MSI manual/website.

[I do have the correspondence archived "somewhere" - but don't have time 
to look for it presently.]

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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