Harddrive Size

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Bill Bradshaw

I have an older computer, Pentium III 800 Mhz, with an Award 4.51PG BIOS and
a Tyan S1854 motherboard. I connected an external 200 GB Maxtor OneTouch to
the computer through a USB port and the computer was able to recognize the
entire 200 GBs. Would this be a good sign that the motherboard would be
able to recognize a 200 GB internal drive?
 
Hi,

I wouldn't base an internal recognition by the bios using an external
drive since the bios is not counting it as anything but a USB device. It
might be better if you would update your bios to the very latest from Tyan
or at least look to see if newer bios versions that are available to address
the larger hdd size.
 
I have done what I can do with the Tyan website. The manual states the BIOS
is pre-programmed for drive type values 1 through 45. It is to bad there is
not some program that can access the BIOS and determine what the maximum
drive size can be.
 
I am running WinXP Pro SP2. I have been all over the internet for hours
trying to determine the max size of the hard drive for this Tyan 1854C
motherboard. But I can not find any information.
It is an Award BIOS 4.51PG, 04/17/2000-694X-596B-977-TYAN1854C-00, TYAN
S1854 Trinity 400 Rev. 1.07.
 
I am running WinXP Pro SP2. I have been all over the internet for hours
trying to determine the max size of the hard drive for this Tyan 1854C
motherboard. But I can not find any information.
It is an Award BIOS 4.51PG, 04/17/2000-694X-596B-977-TYAN1854C-00, TYAN
S1854 Trinity 400 Rev. 1.07.
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Hours? Whast you could do is hook the external drive up to
the system, typical config hooked up to motherboard's
controller to see what size it detects in bios... or what
size shows up in windows. Then you have your answer and can
either leave the HDD in the system and put something else in
the external enclosure or put the drive back into the
enclosure.
 
I am running WinXP Pro SP2.

You're gonna have to upgrade to the latest service pack for Win2k. I don't
think it included 48-bit LBA until SP4 (without it you are limited to
127GB). Otherwise you only have to worry about the 80GB limit that some
BIOS's had a problem getting around. You could also just use a drive
overlay.
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"I don't cheat to survive. I cheat to LIVE!!"

- Alceryes
 
Alceryes said:
You're gonna have to upgrade to the latest service pack for Win2k. I
don't think it included 48-bit LBA until SP4 (without it you are
limited to 127GB). Otherwise you only have to worry about the 80GB
limit that some BIOS's had a problem getting around. You could also
just use a drive overlay.
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Next time *READ* before replying - otherwise you end up looking like an
idiot. Why on *Earth* does he need to install the latest service pack for
Win2000 when he's running Windows XP Pro (with SP2)?!
 
Next time *READ* before replying - otherwise you end up looking like an
idiot.
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With *everyone* purposing to be a so-called expert these days idiot's are in
short supply.
I'm just trying to keep the species from going extinct...

Oh, BTW...8-p
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"I don't cheat to survive. I cheat to LIVE!!"

- Alceryes
 
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:02:47 -0500, "Alceryes"

| > Next time *READ* before replying - otherwise you end up looking like an
| > idiot.
|
| With *everyone* purposing to be a so-called expert these days idiot's are in
| short supply.
| I'm just trying to keep the species from going extinct...

ROTFL!!!

Larc



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