enorbet wrote:
> Thank You Ray for your speedy response.  Even though there are people 
> who have some version of OS/2 running on AMD 64 who have posted so here, 
> to me that is not the main point since we all are familiar with hardware 
> that has poor support in OS/2.  DOS however is quite another thing and 
> that is what I took issue with.  If a PC  will not run a simple DOS boot 
> floppy then something is terribly wrong either with the floppy or the 
> system and it is not due to it's being AMD.  Of that I am quite 
> certain.  I just want you to know I am not denying your experience of 
> those events, just an implied conclusion.  The most important issue to 
> me follows, please see below:

There may still be some confusion here.  A DOS floppy boots fine.  DOS 
on the HDD is OK; a USB KB even works under DOS, P&P.  W98SE from the 
HDD works.

Partition Magic 3.05 and 6 will not run; one puts up an error box, the 
other just stops loading.  Generally, the first thing I do with a new 
system or MB is boot a DOS floppy and run PM from a floppy.  That is 
my basic hardware check.  If I cannot get past that I figure something 
is seriously wrong.  I think I also tried it from the HDD.

Almost all of my HDDs are in plugin racks.  They are all cloned off a 
common parent installation of W4 UPDATECD.  I have complete cloned 
HDDs as backups for each box.  I plugged one of those into each of the 
AMD 64 MBs.

On both MBs, OS/2 boots to a desktop.  But I have no KB or mouse input.

On that HDD I went ahead and setup W98SE -- that was already installed 
-- for the ECS MB.  W98SE works, so I declared the ECS a Win box. 
Like I needed one of those.

But, I have not given up on AMD.  I now have an ASUS MB.

One more time.

Ray





 
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