Re: 64 bit and eCS?

Hi Alan

nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
In <uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-wpdWJEyrRuRJ@poblano>, on 03/29/07 at 07:57 PM, "Stan Goodman" <SPAM_FOILER@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

My computer fixing friend is stumped. His latest suggestion - upgrade the
motherboard and CPU. That would mean 64 bit, I presume. Will my eCS 1.2
setup work with 64 bit CPU? If so, any motherboard suggestions? I like
Abit because of it's Softmenu bios that makes for a fairly jumperless
board, but I'm happy with anything that works (including the current
board, if someone can tell me how to get it to accept more RAM.)

You probably missed my similar problem described in another group, which
concerned eCS v1.1 and the impossibility of enlarging the memory beyond
500MB. The breakthrough came when someone mentioned that the limitation
was in the kernel that shipped with that release, and that I needed to
upgrade the kernel. Someone else (no names please) chewed me out because
I was goosy about monkeying about with something I visualized as being a
delicate gurus-only part of the OS, and that forced me to do the
upgrade. My eCS v1.1 is now sporting a 14.104a kernel, and is running a
full 2GBs of RAM. It's duck soup, as the chewer said.

As I said to David, I have kernel 14.103a. I can't know if the OS even
has a problem with more memory if the boot process doesn't even get to the
point where the OS takes over from the bios. :(



I often find when changing hardware that the BIOS setting called something like Update ESCD needs to be Enabled.

Not sure if that applies to RAM though...


Will eCS work with 64 bit Athlon 3000+, if I have to change motherboards?


Alan



I'm using an Asus A8N-E mainboard with an AMD64 3000+ CPU and 2 512 sticks of RAM.

eCS1.2 worked fine with it, if I remember correctly all I did was hookup my disks to the new mainboard, set a few things in the BIOS as I boot from SCSI, and off we went. I wrote an article for VOICE that may be of interest http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0406H/feature_5.html

eCS1.2R goes 1 better - it will install to the above system without problems or fiddling about.

Regards

Pete
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