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Help. I need a new PC for OS/2
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Name: Andrea
Date: May 9, 2001 at 05:41:01 Pacific
Subject: Help. I need a new PC for OS/2 |
Comment: I'm searching for a NEW PC where OS/2 installation has been officially, or even by yourself, tested. I have to replace and old PC with a critical OS/2 application, but I cannot find a PC manufacturer, IBM included, that lists OS/2 in its datasheets. If you are afraid this could be advertising, please answer me in private. I need help...
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Response Number 1
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Name: DON
Date: May 11, 2001 at 13:07:48 Pacific
Subject: Help. I need a new PC for OS/2 |
Reply: (edit) Actually almost all desktops can have OS/2
installed in them. The only issues would be
supported sound cards.Almost all newer video
cards are supported,most every NIC card,etc.
I have been building machines for the last
several years some of which are OS/2 boxes.
I usually check out the hardware by using
a hard drive that has OS/2 on it.That includes my latest box with an AMD 1.2Ghz
processor in it
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Response Number 2
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Name: Andrea
Date: May 12, 2001 at 06:46:53 Pacific
Subject: Help. I need a new PC for OS/2 |
Reply: (edit)Don,
thank you for your answer. I successfully installed OS/2 Warp 4.0 on a lot of PCs, but the last one was one year ago. I see I can use several graphics cards, video cards, CD drivers etc. Really, for old application I have to maintain, sound cards are not used. So, I just was worried about new chipsets. Are they masked by BIOS in a way compatible with OS/2? More, in the past I had some problems with CD and disk controller drivers...
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Response Number 3
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Name: DON
Date: May 17, 2001 at 05:44:27 Pacific
Subject: Help. I need a new PC for OS/2 |
Reply: (edit) In response about newer chipsets I've
used boards with ALI,INTEL,VIA, and AMD
chipsets and have had no problems except
for USB usage.As for display I either use
SCITECH Display Doctor (www.scitechsoft.com)
as it supports most video cards and you
don't have to change drivers when you change cards (true plug and play). Or an IBM
version of this but it doesn't support as many resolutions but it still works great.
As for BIOS mostly I've dealt with AMI or
AWARD (now the same).
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Response Number 4
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Name: Andrea
Date: May 26, 2001 at 15:24:52 Pacific
Subject: Help. I need a new PC for OS/2 |
Reply: (edit)Don,
thank you for your support. Really, I didn't know there is this Scitech general-pourpose video card driver. The supported cards list is very large. At the end, I successfully installed OS/2 Warp 4.0 on an Acer Veriton 7100 desktop, Pentium III 933MHz, with Intel 815 chipset, integrated video (Scitech driver) and ethernet. I had no need of audio, USB, and others. I had to use the IDEDASD.EXE fix to have access to complete 20GB disk. Thank you very much!!!!
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