From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:23 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1586 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Friday 28 December 2007 Number 1586 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Fw: eComstation won't install on a modern high end Desktop : Brian White" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:31:23 +1100 From: "Brian White" Subject: Fw: eComstation won't install on a modern high end Desktop ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian White" To: "OS2VOICE" ; Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 1:38 PM Subject: eComstation won't install on a modern high end Desktop > Having used OS/2-eComstation since OS/2 version 1.2 I am deeply frustrated > by this. My Pentium 4 motherboard died and I bought a new desktop. All > that > I could find were modern high end machines. > > The specifications are: > Intel Core Duo CPU E6550 at 2.33GHz > Intel G33/G31 Express Chipset Family > Intel ICH9 SATA AHCI Controller > Hard drive WDC WD3200AAKS-22SBAO > External hard drive WDC My Book ES USB Device > CD/DVD Drive ASUS DRW-1814BLT Lightscribe > USB Mouse and keyboard > Network Adapters: 6TO4 Adapter, Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection > Sound Controller SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC > USB Intel ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller (x8) > 2Gb memory > > The computer is preloaded with Windows Vista Premium Home Edition > > I have tried every way I can think of to load eComstation RC3 without > success, including deleting Vista to install only eComstation and > reloading > Vista and trying to load eComstation on a separate partition. > > In BIOS there are options to configure SATA as IDE, RAID or AHCI (the > default). With SATA set as RAID or AHCI the eComstation install disk > delivers the following message "CD-ROM sector read error > (drive=00,Sector=2,020, Code=09)". With SATA set as IDE the eComstation > install disk operates OK, but very slowly. > > The Boot Manager will not install when Vista is installed, so I decided to > use the eComstation Install disk to set either the Vista or eComstation > partition startable, depending on my needs. It was a cumbersome, but > workable system. > > EComstation will not recognise the onboard network port or audio chip, but > I > persisted without them because there are important business documents > which > I need to retrieve. > > Taking some advice from the newsgroups I edited the config.sys file to > remove /SMP and /APIC from the APIC driver. I also deleted the > communications and MDOS settings and set Protectonly=Yes. > > The best I have been able to achieve after many attempts (over 60) is a > slow > boot to the desktop, but neither the mouse nor keyboard works so that is > of > no value to me. > > I am just about to give up. > > __________________________________ > > Brian White MA AMusA > Lessons in Singing and Voice Production > > brian at grapevine dot net dot au > > 17 Foveaux Street > Ainslie ACT 2602 > > 02 6161 3020 > 0410 411 257 > ____________________________________ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------