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434837 2006-03-01 01:00:00 i found a hp pavilion 4512 on the side of the road and it was in good nick so i took it home, it didnt hav a harddrive but i hav a spare 40gb one, but i cant seem to get the pc to recongnise any size drive, i downloaded a bios flash from HP but it says it cant update because of HImem.sys manager. i thought that was a Dos thing. the 40 hard drive is a Seagate barracuda 7200:7 st340014a any ideas? aidanmaz (7180)
434838 2006-03-01 02:14:00 Dont most HP BIOS updates extract to a bootable floppy?

There's nothing else on the disk besides the BIOS update files.

Well, the last time I did a BIOS update for an HP system, I cant remember seeing himem.sys on it.

Is this what u did?
Speedy Gonzales (78)
434839 2006-03-01 02:40:00 You might want to try the hard drive's "alternate capacity" jumper, reduce to 32GB. It's usually next to the slave / master jumpers kingdragonfly (309)
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