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Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 2003 19:23:47 PDT7
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: motherboard selection

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I just built a computer using ECS's K7S5A that Daniella said she was
impressed with. Fry's still advertises them (with different AMD
Athalons - mine is the 2000+ version). It works fine, including
on-board NIC, under eCS 1.0 using dhcp. The only difficulty I am having
is getting dhcp to start under eCS 1.1 (so I'm back to 1.0). From what
I have seen on the OS/2 Hardware mailing list it is possible I happened
to get two bad CDs from Mensys.

I might point out that the on-board NIC on my machine is an SIS900.
When I was looking for drivers I discovered ECS fits one of four NICs on
these boards. IIRC, OS/2 drivers are available for three of them. Take
a look at their site so you are prepared. In the case of the SIS900 the
OS/2 driver is in the Windows distribution. FWIW, I used the PCI
sniffer (from the eCS site) to discover which NIC my board had.

One last comment. I don't play with sound so I don't know about sound
drivers for the on-board sound chips. In fact I don't even know what
who makes the chips.

So far I'm pleased (1 month) except for the dhcp issue. When that gets
resolved I'm back to v1.1.

Sheridan

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>...hi... i am shopping for a ecommstation 1.1
>compatible motherboard that will make for the
>'easiest' installation .... tia dave rose
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