Hard Drive/Bios Update

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David Kochol

I am trying to upgrade a hard drive in an older NEC Ready 9851
computer with a Biostar M5SIB motherboard. The old hard drive was
6.4GB Fujitsu, and the new drive is a Western Digital WD400BB-00DEA0,
40GB. I believe the computer does not recognize the drive because of
the 32GB limit of my old BIOS. My problem is trying to find an update
to this BIOS:

Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
Copyright (C) 1984-98, Award Software, Inc.
BIOS ver. 1.06

11/13/1998-SIS-5598-W877-2A5IIB0BC-00

I have checked Award, NEC, Packard Bell, and most of the driver
sights, and I can not find anything for this motherboard. I would
rather try upgrading the BIOS first than buy a controller for the new
drive.

Any info on obtaining a new BIOS update would be great.

Thanks!

Dave
 
David Kochol wrote:

I have checked Award, NEC, Packard Bell, and most of the driver
sights, and I can not find anything for this motherboard. I would
rather try upgrading the BIOS first than buy a controller for the new
drive.
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I hate to tell you but you'll be way better off with a new controller. The
new drive is going to run really slow even if you get the bios to see it.
 
I am trying to upgrade a hard drive in an older NEC Ready 9851
computer with a Biostar M5SIB motherboard. The old hard drive was
6.4GB Fujitsu, and the new drive is a Western Digital WD400BB-00DEA0,
40GB. I believe the computer does not recognize the drive because of
the 32GB limit of my old BIOS. My problem is trying to find an update
to this BIOS:

Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
Copyright (C) 1984-98, Award Software, Inc.
BIOS ver. 1.06

11/13/1998-SIS-5598-W877-2A5IIB0BC-00

I have checked Award, NEC, Packard Bell, and most of the driver
sights, and I can not find anything for this motherboard. I would
rather try upgrading the BIOS first than buy a controller for the new
drive.

Any info on obtaining a new BIOS update would be great.

Thanks!

Dave
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Well, here's some info though I don't know for sure that it's the
correct BIOS, nor whether it will add support for HDD > 32GB:
http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=53026
It might even be the same version you're already running.

Biostart was never particularly good with BIOS updates, you might not
be able to find a BIOS supporting >32GB because it (may not) exist.


Dave
 
I hate to tell you but you'll be way better off with a new controller.
The
new drive is going to run really slow even if you get the bios to see it.
Click to expand...

An IDE controller would be the way to go to get the fastest possible
performance in your system. However, you could use the EZBIOS that came with
the 40GB drive. If it didn't come with your drive you can download it.
 
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