Hi there, and All the best for the Season to you all.

OK the problem. My old system worked fine for years then the motherboard
died, so to get me up and running I bought an ASUS K8V-MX and an AMD
Sempron CPU, because I had no access to the internet or access to past
answers from you guys a small local shop had to do.

Now it is in Win XP and Linux are fine but Warp 4 will not boot, from H/D or
boot disks or boot disks from the Instalation CD.

The error message is not alwas the same but 2 I have are :-

It can't find the COUNTRY.SYS file and stops loading.

And :-

c00000005

DOSCALL1.DLL 0002 : 0000a455

P1= 00000001 P2= 00000004 P3=XXXXXXXX P4= XXXXXXXX

EAX= 000300d2 EBX= 00000000 ECX= 0003002 EDX= 078b9f41

ESI= ffde0100 EDI=feff43f8

DS= 0053 DSACC= d0f3 DSLIM= 3fffffff
ES= 0053 ESACC= d0f3 ESLIM= 3fffffff
FS=150b FSACC= 00f3 FSLIM= 00000030
GS= 0000 GSACC= **** GSLIM= ********

CS:EIP= 005b : 1c02a455 CSACC= d0df CSLM= 3fffffff
SS:ESP= 0053 : 000300b2 SSACC= d0f3 SSLIM= 3fffffff

EBP= 000300da FLG = 00213202


If there is no way to get this to work could any one spare the time to make
some sugestions on a Socket 754 board that will work ????

Many thanks

Stuart

Stuart Hepburn wrote:
Are your hd BASEDEV files up-to-date? Viz: IBM1S506.add or
DANIS506.add, OS2DASD.dmd... This issue comes up often. Have a look at

http://www.warpupdates.mynetcologne...._contents.html

or past discussions here and in other comp.os.os2.* NGs for details.

[rest of error info cut]

Socket 754 is not the determing factor here.

Return season greetings to you and all readers!

I've just changed mb from an Asus A7N266 to a Gigabyte K8VM8000 which
has a Socket 754, fitted with a Sempron 3000+ and it came up fine, but...

I am disappointed with this board. I was hoping to be able to retire
one or more of three add-in cards but I didn' check the specs hard
enough and I can't retire any of them! It uses the ALC655 sound chip
which won't work fully correctly with LB Mixer; it uses VIA K8M8000 LAN
chip which has no driver available; and the VIA K8M8000 video which Snap
doesn't run with any acceleration despite reporting that it does so.

So the only step forward I got is the speed of the Sempron over the
Duron 1100 I was using and the availability of USB 2.0 built-in ports.

I think I am back on the road hunting for another 754 board.

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in 221502 20051225 145509 "Stuart Hepburn" <stuart.hepburn3@virgin.net> wrote:
I bought a new motherboard about a year ago and while W98 & Linux would boot fine
OS/2 would usually get one of 4 errors. Once it was up it would run all day, but it took
as many as 6 attempts.
After some months of putting up with this I discovered that the IDE cable was bad.
Since replacing it the system has been trouble-free.

I think the moral is that OS/2 is the best system diagnostic.

Hi Stuart

Stuart Hepburn wrote:

I think your answer is to Google for "running OS/2 with AMD64 cpu" - or
similar.

I read somewhere that some of the Sempron chips seem to have the same
problems with installation and booting as the amd64 chips and suspect
that is what you have bumped into.

Regards

Pete

Sir:

Peter Brown wrote:
they had converted all their production lines over or did not have
enough spare for real Athlon XPs any more (hardware switch to make them
run only in 32-bit legacy mode). Just like the cheapest Optrons single
cores were selling up to last week less than the Athlon64 at the same
speed rating. Last week AMD raised the prices on their entire line as
demand has exceeded supply. They also ran out of the chip carriers for
the 754 chips until next week. Being top dog does has its problems for
AMD. Intel would be smart to license AMD chips & technology, IMHO.

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Bill
Thanks a Million!

Use the media refresh CD from eCS of 1.2 and you will be able to boot and
install without problem if this is what is causing your problem. I had a
similar problem with a new AMD-64 and got going fine with the new refresh.
MJW

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:09:58 -0600, William L. Hartzell wrote:


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