I just read your post and found it most inetesting. I am having troubles as well with my ECS K7S5A mobo. My system has the following specs:The tech specs of my system are:
1. ECS K7S5A motherboard with the SIS 735 chipset
2. 512MB of DDR Ram
3. AMD Athlon 1600+ CPU
4. Soundblaster Live Video Card
5. Seagate 1275MB HDD
6. nVidia GeForce II 64MB video card.
I am able to boot the computer with the OS/2 Installation diskette in my system. It then asks me to install OS/2 diskettes 1 and 2.
The system asks me if I want easy or advance installation. I chose advanced and was placed into fdisk. I have erased the partitions on the main drive, set the drive as installable and save and exit.
I then chose to format the drive using HPFS, and it asks me to wait while the disk is formatted. I am then asked to select a pointing device. As I have a USB mouse currently attached to the system, I choose “none†at this point (after I get the system to load from the HDD I shall swap in a serial mouse).
The files are then copied off the CDRom onto the freshly formatted hard drive. After a few moments the system asks me to remove the floppy disk and reboot to complete the install.
This is where the wheels fall off. The system boots normally, posting all the BIOS details concerning my system. The last thing that happens is the system goes through its boot sequence as follows:
Boot from floppy ….…No
Boot from CDRom…...No
Boot from IDE-0……..OK
And that’s it, the system just sits there. I don’t get any beeps or anything. I don’t get the OS/2 logo appearing in the upper left hand corner of the screen like I remember from days gone by, so I can’t even Alt-F2 to change the bootup parameters.
Can anyone suggest what is going wrong here? I suspect that my motherboard chipset may not be supported by my stock standard “out-of-the-box†version of OS/2. But I can’t get the system running so that I can install the latest fixpack.
Any help greatly appreciated