Quick review of MorphOS 2.0 on my Efika

[spihunter]

I've been using MorphOS 2.0 on my Efika for about a day now so I thought I'd give my thoughts here. My setup is

-Efika
Radeon 7000 32mb AGP
400W Atx power supply
Dlink USB hub
Dell keyboard & Mouse
Dell widescreen LCD 1440x990

Install went pretty smooth off the USB drive (Lexar usb drive)
Downloaded the MorphOS 2.0 image pretty quickly during the install.

It rebooted and left me at the OK prompt. I had to hit the forums to find out what to type to get it to boot.

It boots up pretty quick 15-20 seconds to Ambient.

I'll first start with the good news:

-The desktop looks fantastic. Icons everything looks awesome

-It works pretty much like any Amiga I've ever used. everything is there from Ram: to Libs:

-Its pretty damn quick, even on this low spec of hardware. I'd like to see it side by side with a Peg 1&2 and a classic PPC machine.

Ok, Now the bad:

-Stability is a serious issue. I'm using the default install with nothing altered and I'm getting hard crashes all over the place. In fact I've only seen the 30 minute timeout screen once since I've had it setup.

In fact its so unstable that I didnt post this from the Efika in fear of it crashing in the middle of the post.

Conclusion:

I've read alot over the last couple of days about many folks having these same issues so I wasnt really suprised.
I hope the MorphOS folks get on this and figure out whats going on. Its almost like there's a serious glitch somewhere thats bringing everything down with it. The crashes seem pretty random.

Overall I'm glad I snapped up a Efika while they were available. I'm only $99 dollars invested in this adventure so far so I'm going to wait and see what happens.

Hopefully they'll realese 2.1 sometime soon that will address these issue. Until then its just not stable enough to do any real work on it.

[TheMagicM]

I get crashes also but I'm also trying out software to see if it works under MOS2 on the EFIKA.  I hit the timeout once but that was because I was un-lha'ing a 94meg file..lol.

[CLS2086]

@spihunter : try an another PSU first a 200W atx may be too much for the load of an efika system so a 400w... try to check the voltage +3.3v and +5v.
Try also an another Radeon if you can : a 9000 or a 9200 one

[zyphoid]

if you unplug the usb's as much as possible, there wont be any crashes much! but then there lies the problem. you need the usb to transfer files!