40GB: 03/25/1999-sis-530-2a5imsmcc-00

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

i just boughts a 40 gb HD and i need a patch for it... THe Motherboard box says Main Board SCE.... all i can find on the manufactur. if SCE is a brand i can't find the web site

Ver - 4.51PG
Bios ID - 03/25/1999-sis-530-2a5imsmcc-00

Help plz

[NickS]

Can you save the BIOS using AWDFLASH, zip and email it to me ?
It's San Li, SuperPower or Hope Vision and there is not a lot of support about for them.

[NickS]

You should have a message along the lines of "5MSM Ver:A.3" near the top of the screen. If this is the case, a later BIOS can be found at
http://www.nix.ru/support/drivers.html?group=4&vendor=20 under SP-5msm (A.4) which supports disks up to 128 Gb.

BIOS ID string: 10/18/1999-SiS-530-2A5IMSMCC-00
BIOS OEM string: 5MSM Ver:A.4
INT13h Extensions...Present: new-style
=> BIOS already supports HDDs over 32GB!
Searching for SETUP size calculation routine...is already OK
BIOS already supports HDDs over 32GB & 64GB - Nothing to do!

Don't forget you may have to downgrade the UDMA mode to UDMA33 (Mode 2) using the HDD manufacturer's utility - see the post in Collected Wisdom on UDMA mode setting utilities.

thanks but i solved this problem, the ez way... my friend(person who i was making this for) just decided that he'd get a 30 gig and not have to mess with it. So it works fine now, just needa find new vga drivers for the buildin vidio card.

But thanks anyways