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This site is incredibly helpful. Unfortunately, I still couldn't quite find the BIOS upgrade I'm looking for.

I would like to upgrade my BIOS so's I can make full use of my new 60GB Maxtor hard drive.

I am aware that Maxtor has some kind of MaxBlast software that allows me to use the full capacity of the disk, but it's not supported with Windows 2000. The alternative is to upgrade my BIOS.

Here's what ...

Giga-byte GA-8IRXP motherboard with Award version 6 bios running XP. Hard drive is connected to RAID controller to take advantage of ATA/133 capability. When installing XP, additional controller driver (using F6 as soon as XP install begins) is loaded. All CD data is copied from CD to hard drive for installation as normal (XP is able to see drive). However, when system is restarted, NTLDR NOT FOUND error is reported. If the hard drive is ...

I recently bought a new Seagate Hdisk and when connecting it, my system does not regonise the HD. I have a ATC-6240 MB with following specs:
Bios type Award Modular Bios v4.51pg
Bios ID: 09/03/98-i440BX-W977TF-ATC-6240c-00
Bios Eval: ATC 6240 VER:1.1 04 WB
Chipset Intel 440BX/ZX rev 2
I already downloaded the latest Bios upgrade (6240118a.bin) from Atrend and tried a Bios upgrade but when I run the AWDflash.exe nothing seems to be happening.
What am ...

At my homepage waiting some 32GB+ biosfiles for testing:

Abit AH6
Asus T2P4
Gigabyte GA586HX
SOYO 5ED
SOYO 6IEM

Jan

Please, if anybody can help me with this bios (to support HDD`s over 8 GB).

Thanks

Dark.
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Hello,
I have a motherboard Abit ah6, chipset 440 LX, bought in 98, I'd like to install a second hd, 40 or 20 Gb, I'm not sure my Award bios wuold recognize it...I looked up in Abit's web site but there are no dowlodable upgrade files for my motherboard!
Can anybody help ?
Thanks a lot!

HI All
I have currently a 50 gb hdd from samsung sv 6004h
And my mbd is a ex98 from Zida company.
Now to get over 32 gb limit. I flash upgraded the bios from the website of Zida ex98110E.zip now the issue is that the update was pre 7/99 And hance 32 gb limit didnt go ..
Now I dont know wat to do with this..
Should I use things like Gigabyte 's @Flash ...

Hey guys - I thought I would post here as you seem to have fixed a problem another user, with a similar Award BIOS and a 40GB Drive.

I have the same problem, but with an IBM 75GB Deskstar drive. I just don't recognise it.

Details :

BIOS Date: 03/15/99
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 03/15/99-i440BX-W977TF-2A69KB3EC-00
BIOS Eval: PENTIUM II/III AGP/PCI/ISA SYSTEM BIOS VER:2.03 (#20540)
Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 3
Superio: Winbond ...

I really hope you guys can help me out.....I have a PC with a Gigabyte 6BA motherboard and Award bios......there is a 40 GB western Digital HD installed, at boot-up the post halts at "primary master".......On Gigabyte's web site, there are references to recent bios updates, that refer to PCB v.3.0 or above, I do not know how to determine what revision my board is......the problem seems to be that ol' 32 GB limit......I.D. string-07/01/1999-i440BX-W977-2A69KGOAC-00.........Any ...

:cry: Hi,
I have an old 468 DX2 laptop 66 Mhz with a 209,7 MG HDD. Unfortunate the BIOS dose not recognise the HDD anymore. It reports a fixed disk failure ( Invalid configuration information - Please run SETUP program ).
I tryed an upgrade to Version 1.03 ( recomended by a friend) but that dose not help at all. The label on the ...