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| 230774 | 2004-04-20 11:25:00 | I decided to get my old girl (P3 500) a new 40GB drive. It is only recognised as 32GB. I understand the bios needs to be flashed to make it recognise the full 40GB. I also understand it is a risky procedure. All I can find on the MB is J-720AF and Award bios. I am needing some instruction/help/reassurance about doing this. Any takers? |
wotz (335) | ||
| 230775 | 2004-04-20 12:09:00 | Going by the number it appears to be a Jetway motherboard . Toddle on over to the jetway site: . jetway . com . tw and have a look under "product/old" target="_blank">www . jetway . com . tw and have a look under "product board" to find the latest Bios version . Download the manual while you're there it might have some details on flashing the bios and whether this is actually possible with your board . :) |
BamBam (5462) | ||
| 230776 | 2004-04-20 20:43:00 | Alternatively visit the hard drive manufacturers website and see if their hard drive utilities will provide a dynamic overlay to enable the drive to be recognised. Eg, Maxtor call their utilities Maxblast. Bios flashing is ok provided you follow the instructions exactly; get the correct version for your motherboard from the m/b manufacturers (you will need to know all the m/b details including revision number); and don't have a power interruption during the process. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 230777 | 2004-04-20 21:23:00 | Use Aida or Sisoft Sandra to identify your board, version + revision. Check your boot screen at start for BIOS version + revision. Check the Jetway site to ensure that the BIOS update will give you the functionality you seek, no point otherwise. Also check the Jetway site for IDE driver updates which may achieve the same thing as the overlay software Terry mentions, which is much safer to apply. Cheers Murrray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 230778 | 2004-04-20 21:36:00 | I attempted a Bios upgrade on a Jetway MB a couple of years ago, using the correct procedure and correct file version, but it stopped half way through with an non descriptive error message and the computer was dead. Luckily a local computer dealer had an Eprom burner and was able to burn the same file successfully into the Bios chip, and functionality was restored. Maybe Bios flashing has improved of late, but it's not something that I would endorse based on my one and only exerience! |
Russell D (18) | ||
| 230779 | 2004-04-20 22:19:00 | Have you checked your HDD jumper settings have not been set to restrict it to 32GB ? Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 230780 | 2004-04-21 06:41:00 | The jumper is set to restrict it to 32, as bios hangs if it isn't. The new drive is a Seagate Barracuda. I couldn't work out how to install an overlay on the disk. The software only wanted to add it to the floppy boot disk. | wotz (335) | ||
| 230781 | 2004-04-21 07:42:00 | Thats right, it creates a bootdisk with the program on. Once made, you have to boot up with that floppy. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 230782 | 2004-04-21 08:47:00 | Flashing a BIOS isn't all that scarey. I must admit to having a dead BIOS chip just once though. The reason this happened is while I was doing it the power went off to the house. We hope the same doesn't happen to you. You can buy a UPS to prevent this giving you a problem. You can of course phone your power supply company and ask if the power is going to be cut to your house during the next ten minutes. Being as they don't know when the next drunk driver is going to knock over a power pole I don't think you will get an answer that will give you any confidence. What you need is the CORRECT bios file for your bios. This is usually XXXXXXXXX.bin Discount the number of X's here as it no way relates to the correct file name. If you try to flash the BIOS with the wrong file then it is likely you will end up with an unbootable computer. You will normally create a floppy disk with a version of DOS on it which is bootable. You will need to add the flash program and the bin file to the floppy disk. You will NOT use any autoexec.bat file nor config.sys file to the floppy. I hope this gives you an idea about where to go from here. :-) You can use an overlay and I had success with this but to access a drive you will need to boot off a floppy possibly. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 230783 | 2004-04-21 08:58:00 | The Motherboard BIOS Flashing Guide (www.rojakpot.com/(3gzzqz55fhmxz3yqlfndqzmg)) | Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
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