max hdd size on award 4.51G bios?
dug
My boss is wondering what the max size hard drive is that he can use with
this computer he bought at auction.
According to the bios codes (08/13/97 - i430VX-W977-2A59GD4BC-00)
this is a DFI Diamond Flower m/b with the intel triton vx chipset (socket 7
based).
The m/b is 586IPVG Rev A.
This bios is Award software inc 4.51G
Apparently there hasn't been any bios upgrades for this exact configuration
since 1997.
So the questions are:
1) how large a drive can we put on it, and
2) can we upgrade the bios somehow to fit larger drivers on here?
thanks in advance, and please reply here -
doug
Rod Speed
dug <d...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> My boss is wondering what the max size hard drive is
> that he can use with this computer he bought at auction.
There isnt really any maximum, just different approaches with the bigger drives.
> According to the bios codes (08/13/97 - i430VX-W977-2A59GD4BC-00)
> this is a DFI Diamond Flower m/b with the intel triton vx chipset (socket 7
> based).
> The m/b is 586IPVG Rev A.
> This bios is Award software inc 4.51G
> Apparently there hasn't been any bios upgrades
> for this exact configuration since 1997.
> So the questions are:
> 1) how large a drive can we put on it, and
The bios may have a limitation, but if it does, most hard drive manufacturers
have a bios overlay on their web site that can be used to get around that.
You can also use a biosed controller card for the hard drive too.
> 2) can we upgrade the bios somehow to fit larger drivers on here?
If you can find an updated bios, yes. Pretty important to make
sure its suitable tho, you can render the system completely
unusable if you update it with a bios thats not suitable.
dug
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> dug <d...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> My boss is wondering what the max size hard drive is that he can use
>> with this computer he bought at auction.
>
> There isnt really any maximum, just different approaches with the
> bigger drives.
Oh! I thought that the 60 gig hd we have wasn't being recognized by the
system because it was too big.
I realized after I posted that I was talking around the question. I'll
explain the deal here but I should probably repose under another subject
line.
Our problem is that we have a 60gig drive bought at auction that the
computer doesn't recognize. There's a cd drive on the machine and we can
attach another drive (2gig) that boots winme from the cd-rom. But when we
unattach the 2gig drive and attach the 60gig drive and reboot (bios
configured for auto detection), the drive is not recognized. When we go to
a dos prompt and fdisk the drive isn't recognized. The low format command
in bios just hangs.
duh! i apologize for not explaining the real problem.
Rod Speed
dug <dug@@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Rod Speed <rod_...@yahoo.com> wrote
>> dug <d...@hotmail.com> wrote
>>> My boss is wondering what the max size hard drive is
>>> that he can use with this computer he bought at auction.
>> There isnt really any maximum, just different
>> approaches with the bigger drives.
> Oh! I thought that the 60 gig hd we have wasn't being
> recognized by the system because it was too big.
Thats possible. Its more common for only part of its capacity to be seen.
> I realized after I posted that I was talking around the question. I'll explain
> the deal here but I should probably repose under another subject line.
I personally think its better to stay in the thread and change the subject.
> Our problem is that we have a 60gig drive bought at auction that
> the computer doesn't recognize. There's a cd drive on the machine
> and we can attach another drive (2gig) that boots winme from the
> cd-rom. But when we unattach the 2gig drive and attach the 60gig
> drive and reboot (bios configured for auto detection), the drive is
> not recognized. When we go to a dos prompt and fdisk the drive
> isn't recognized. The low format command in bios just hangs.
One obvious possibility is that the 60GB drive isnt jumpered
correctly. They often come jumpered for Cable Select by
default today. You'd normally want to jumper it as master.
It would also be worth checking what happens with only the 60GB
drive connected. You do sometimes see a situation where a particular
pair of drives arent happy to coexist on the one ribbon cable. Some
drives have a different jumper config for that, usually called single,
particularly the Western Digitals currently.
There's also the possibility that the drive
is just dead too. Does it actually spin up ?
> duh! i apologize for not explaining the real problem.
No problem, thats easy to do.
Rod Speed
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