80GB : 06/16/1998-i440BX-W977-2A69KM4AC-00

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

Hi, I have an old PC that I'm trying to keep useful with a new Maxtor 80GB hard drive. I've set it as slave and tried running the EX-BIOS program that
comes with it to no avail. The BIOS and Windows only recognises 33 GB.
I believe its a Microstar MS-6119-HW motherboardbased on what I could find.
I tried Microstar's homepage but found no bios updates for this board.
Can someone help me with a bios update or a lead as to what to do next.


Pentium II running Win '98
Award Modular BIOS v4.51
Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 2

[NickS]

Don't worry about the "-HW", that usually defines the OEM that MSI sold the board through. The important thing is which version of 6119 board you have - either "CPU plug'n'play" which is supposed to interrogate the CPU to find out the settings, or the version where the CPU setup is determined by switches or jumpers.

How do find out if it's plug and play or requires switches??

I ran sisoft and the motherboard model is w6119ms v 2.1 081198
I opened the case and the motherboard says ms6119 v1.1 bx2
Looking at the setup program, I don't see a special features setup option
which should have let me set the cpu speed. So I think this board uses
dip switches.

[Denniss]

6119 Rev 1.1 is standard mainboard
6119 Rev 1.2 and up is PnP one

The PnP Mainboard has MS-6119MJ instead of the MS6119MS your Board has in the ID-string

so you have the MS-6119 "Standard" mainboard with DIP-switches

http://download.msi.com.tw/support/bos_exe/w6119s2a.exe