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| Thread ID: 54814 | 2005-02-23 04:10:00 | Upgrading BIOS? | Edward (31) | Press F1 |
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| 327526 | 2005-02-23 04:10:00 | Hi everyone. I've decided it's not enough for the old computer to be stuck with 32gb not even seeable by BIOS, so it's time for a BIOS upgrade. Except I don't know what BIOS it actually has. In the BIOS screen, up the top it says "ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2a59im2z) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC" and down the bottom, "Copyright 1992-1994 Award Software" It hasn't got any dire information on it, so if it dies, i'll be a little upset but no real damage would be done. On to the questions. I'm getting Windows 98 on it, so I can use any diagnostis tools on that, so how can I find out what BIOS I'm using? And how do I actually update the BIOS? (Can boot from CD & write CDs) |
Edward (31) | ||
| 327527 | 2005-02-23 04:19:00 | The 32GB limit may not be a limit of the BIOS. It's also the limit for 98. To get higher u'll have to update to 2000/XP. Most BIOS'es have that. You need to find out the brand/model of the motherboard.. Try this, to see what your motherboard brand/model is. http://www.lavalys.com/ The Home version. It's better to find the BIOS update and make a system disk then copy whats in the BIOS update (usually a zip file) to the floppy. Then change the bootdisk in BIOS to floppy and boot from the floppy. After it has updated the BIOS (if there's a later version). Change the bootdisk back to hard drive. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 327528 | 2005-02-23 04:20:00 | Is it a brand name computer? Do you have any idea what motherboard it has? | PaulD (232) | ||
| 327529 | 2005-02-23 04:35:00 | It's a LTS (Lowes Tech System) box I've got the mobo manual around here somewhere... I'll try and find it now |
Edward (31) | ||
| 327530 | 2005-02-23 04:41:00 | The 32GB limit may not be a limit of the BIOS . It's also the limit for 98 . To get higher u'll have to update to 2000/XP . Wrong! Win98 has some FAT32 size problems but not 32G that's a 2K and XP limit to encourage you to use NTFS . |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 327531 | 2005-02-23 04:50:00 | Try here www.microsoft.com Its a limit of FAT32 - volume size |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 327532 | 2005-02-23 05:32:00 | That's an XP reference. This is for Win 98 support.microsoft.com Large volumes end up with huge cluster sizes. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 327533 | 2005-02-23 05:40:00 | Well its actually for 98 and other OS's. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 327534 | 2005-02-23 05:49:00 | I've also got Windows ME which I hope supports 32gb < * HDs, and I can install that if I need to | Edward (31) | ||
| 327535 | 2005-02-23 05:54:00 | Well anything under NT/2k/XP are similar . XP/2K/NT can use NTFS . 95/98/ME cant read NTFS . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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