--- Felix Miata  wrote:
> 
> Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:
>  
> >      OK, it is homework time; before I rush out and impetuously buy
> an ATX
> > motherboard and make another mistake.
>  

> >      The next, related question is:  What chipsets do I want to
> avoid so
> > the motherboard will play nicely with OS/2 \ eCS?
>  
> >      Anything else to be taken into consideration?
> 
> Your need for ISA pretty much rules out avoiding the worst chipsets.
> The
> ones to avoid are essentially those that offer ISA. Most that do not
> support ISA are not a problem. BIOS are the more likely problems
> nowadays, and these are board specific, having little to do with
> brands
> or boards or BIOS brand. If there's one chipset to avoid, it would
> probably be i810, but if you're going to do that, you probably should
> also avoid i815 & i820. SiS generally equates to lower cost and lower
> performance.
>  
I'm playing with the ancient.
 
 -Have a K7TA-H Socket A VIA chipset with duron 1.3 on which ECS 1.1
installed quite nicely. One ISA, 5 PCI slots and uses sdram. Even got
onboard sound to work (wave only). Onboard PATA (DMA66/100) USB 1.1.
Award bios. Says it supports NCR SCSI BIOS.

 -Just got and attempting to get all working is Chaintech 9PJL3 478
socket with 2.0 pentium4 and DDR memory. Intel 845PE chipset. Onboard
Realtek 8101 LAN (lucky me). Onboard C-Media sound (tured off, couldn't
get working on ECS). No ISA. Onboard PATA (DMA66/100), SATA, USB
2.0/1.1. Award bios.

Thought the Intel should  have been better, haven't found the advantage
yet, threatened a couple times to go back to the VIA. I think these are
the last two computers I'm building for a while, seems cheap to start
with, but always end up costing a lot.

Franklin


	
		
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